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With this year’s Carers Rights Day (23 November) focused on the cost of caring, Paul Lord, a Principal Internal Assessor at Leonardo UK, details the financial and wellbeing challenges he faced when trying to find suitable care for his mum and grandma, before eventually managing to locate a day care centre that provided much-needed support. Read more...
Designed from the outset to meet a wide range of demanding missions on the modern battlefield, the Leonardo AW149 multi-role helicopter provides a layered approach to survivability. Discover how the platform was designed with battlefield survivability in mind, with a focus on the airframe’s crashworthiness and minimised susceptibility to enemy fire, in addition to its next generation Defensive Aids System and external weapons options to protect the aircrew and aircraft.
As colleagues around Leonardo commemorated Remembrance Day 2022, the company was proud to announce the launch of its latest employee-led network group: Armed Forces. The new group is open to all Leonardo employees, and is focused on supporting those who have served in the Armed Forces, whether as a Regular or Reserve. The group also provides a forum for those spouses or partners of serving members as well as allies who wish to learn more about the experiences of those who the company works alongside day by day. read more...
Leonardo has won the Manufacturing in Action award at the 2022 Manufacturer MX Awards (TMMX Awards). Leonardo’s UK helicopter business received the award after impressing the judges with its product excellence, innovation, customer satisfaction, investment in people, training, effective management and efforts to become more sustainable. Read more...
As part of Leonardo’s 'Social Value' series, the company hosted the workshop 'Destination Net Zero, Leonardo and Small Medium Enterprises working together on the journey' led by SWMAS (South West Manufacturing Advisory Service) at the iAero Centre in Yeovil, Somerset.
Leonardo has proven the tracking capability of its new laser beam director as part of the ongoing UK DragonFire Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) trials. The trials took place in November at the Ministry of Defence’s Porton Down range, the trials involve firing the UK DragonFire demonstrator at targets over a number of ranges, demanding pinpoint accuracy from the beam director. Read more...
Generations of employees assembled at Leonardo in Edinburgh in early November to receive one of the last Queen’s Awards to be bestowed for innovation. Leonardo’s award relates to the field of infrared (IR) countermeasures technology that has protected aircrews and passengers around the globe since the 1990s. Read more...
The final construction of the Single-Site Logistics Hub’s structure and flooring at Leonardo in Yeovil has recently been celebrated at the £30 million development through the industrial partners’ next-generation workforce cementing their hands into the floor. Learn more by visiting our website.
Across the UK, Leonardo is planning to hire an additional 300 early career trainees in 2023. Driven by Leonardo’s leading roles in engineering programmes such as the Tempest Future Combat Air System and exciting opportunities such as the UK’s New Medium Helicopter requirement, this increase will bring the total number of young people on early careers schemes to 900 – an increase of 50% in a single year. Discover more by clicking on the link
A team of Leonardo colleagues based at the home of the company’s Cyber Security business in Bristol has found an innovative way to highlight cyber risks using Lego, during this year’s Cyber Security Awareness month. The concept of cyber resilience can be difficult to understand; it is an abstract term, and its impacts are not always outwardly seen. To raise awareness of the risks of cyber risks to military platforms, a team was formed at Leonardo’s Cyber Security business in Bristol to create a physical demonstration of the dangers. Coined ‘Project Brick’, the five-strong team worked in an agile way – allowing creative input to improve efficiency and collaboration – to create an interactive Lego model to illustrate the inherent vulnerabilities associated with operational technology on military platforms and their potential impact. Click on the link to find out more.
