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In advance of Deaf Awareness Week (1-7 May 2023), Leonardo UK’s VP Capability and Chief Technology Officer, Cyber Security Solutions, Max Wigley, explains how being deaf negatively affected his early career and what positive change has come about by seeking support.
Leonardo has delivered a prototype ECRS Mk2 (European Common Radar System Mk2) to BAE Systems, marking the latest milestone in the ongoing development programme for the UK Typhoon fleet. The milestone is the latest step towards bringing the world’s most capable combat air radar into Royal Air Force service by the end of the decade.
Since June 1943, Leonardo and its predecessors have been developing world-leading avionics technology in Edinburgh, including airborne radar, lasers and self-protection systems. In celebration of its 80th anniversary in June 2023, we are taking a look back on each of the past eight decades. As an introduction, Mark Stead, Leonardo UK’s Senior Vice-President for Radar and Advanced Targeting, who heads up the Edinburgh business, reflects on the site’s historic achievements of the past and the ground-breaking opportunities for the future.
The AW149 helicopter is Leonardo’s proposed platform for the UK’s New Medium Helicopter requirement. Following the aircraft’s popular appearances at last year’s Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough International Air Show, the AW149 has been travelling across the UK to showcase its military capabilities and highlight the potential value that the production of the aircraft at Leonardo in Yeovil – the ‘Home of British Helicopters’ – will have on jobs and skills across the UK.
Leonardo UK is inviting UK-based Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), start-ups and academia to participate in the Combat Air AI Challenge to harness disruptive technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP): the mission to build the next generation combat air platform for the UK, Italy and Japan by 2035. Discover more.
Read why a NASA delegation has visited Leonardo’s Southampton site to express its appreciation for the production of more than 50 detectors for the Administration’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, which is due to launch in January 2024.
To mark the Islamic month of Ramadan, we spoke with Luton Industrial Engineer, Bachir, and Yeovil Industrial Placement Student, Rahma, to learn more about Ramadan and how their involvement in Leonardo’s Ethnicity Inclusion Network Group, is helping to educate colleagues throughout the company’s UK sites about the significance of the month to Muslims.
To coincide with Security and Policing, the official UK Government global security event which takes place each March in Farnborough, Leonardo UK’s Dr. Simon Harwood describes how sensor technology originally developed for the military could help police counter rogue drones and people smuggling.
The Leonardo Springboard event provided an opportunity for more than 140 women from across the international business to come together, celebrate the work of Leonardo women and inspire participants to take the next step on their development journey.
To mark International Women's Day, Air Vice-Marshal (AVM) Suraya Marshall CBE – the first woman to be appointed to command one of the Royal Air Force's two ‘Operational’ Groups, and the highest ranking ethnically diverse person in the British military – spoke to Leonardo staff about creating inclusive and diverse organisations, during a webinar organised by the company’s Equalise network group.
