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Leonardo has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category, for technology that aircrew and soldiers have said makes them feel safer when they have to fly into danger zones. The company is one of 226 organisations across the country to be recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise. The Innovation Award category acknowledges the ingenuity of Leonardo’s infrared countermeasure (IRCM) technology, which protects aircraft against heat-seeking missiles. First-hand feedback from both soldiers flying as passengers and aircrew operating the aircraft has confirmed that they don’t want to fly without the protection afforded by the system, because of its ability to deflect multiple missiles coming towards an aircraft from different directions. Visit our website for the full article.
We’re proud to sponsor #AFBELive22. To coincide with this year's Association For Black and minority ethnic Engineers event at the IET in London, we caught up with Leonardo’s #Ethnicity Network Group #STEM Lead and Mechanical #Engineer, Arvind about the importance of mentorship to social mobility.
The recognition of Leonardo experts in the New Year’s Vice Chief of the Defence Staff Commendation award – for their contribution to the Strategic Partnering Arrangement with the UK MOD to further protect the nation’s military aircraft – is more evidence of the company’s trailblazing work to keep aircrews and their aircraft protected on operations around the world. Leonardo’s Wayne Smith explains how the company is building upon a century’s heritage and expertise designing and producing high-tech air platform protection solutions.
Leonardo’s Condor HD Sensor, designed and built here in the UK at our Southampton site, was demonstrated for the first time at the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers’ (SPIE) Defense + Commercial Sensing (DCS) conference held in Orlando Florida at the beginning of April. Find out more about the technology behind the camera and what it offers its users.
As part of Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month in March , Beth Colburn, Vice Chair of Leonardo's Enable Network Group and integrated support engineer at the company's UK helicopters facility in Yeovil, wrote about the daily challenges of living with Cerebral Palsy. Find out more about her story and how raising awareness and understanding is helping to provide a working environment in which those with disabilities are able to fulfil their potential.
Over the past year, nearly 50 women from the UK, Italy and Switzerland have completed Leonardo’s first two editions of the world-renowned Springboard personal development programme which is aimed at women who are looking to take clear, practical and realistic steps to progress their careers and take more control over their future. #IWD2022 #InternationalWomensday2022 Find out more.
To celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD), the gender diversity network groups from GKN Aerospace, Leonardo and Rolls-Royce have come together to host a series of events focused on addressing gender balance and exploring the different ways to empower teams across the organisations to forge even more inclusive workplaces. #IWD2022 #InternationalWomensDay2022
During 2021, Leonardo's flight operations team in Yeovil flew more than 870 hours across several different types of helicopters. The 585 flights included sorties on the AW159, AW149 Common Platform Demonstrator, Super Lynx and AW101, with the aircrew accruing over 70 hours in the AW149 during 53 sorties. The growth of the team was marked recently, when two Leonardo trainee Flight Test Engineers (FTE) in Yeovil – Josh Sleeman and Ben Standen – completed the first phase in qualifying as professional aircrew, with will ultimately see them being approved UK MOD MAA (Military Aviation Authority) and EASA (EU Aviation Safety Agency) lead FTEs. This first phase of training followed a similar path to other UK MOD Flying Training System Non-Pilot Aircrew courses.
Leonardo is working closely with the RAF to push forward innovation that is already reducing the carbon footprint of the radar programme for the Typhoon fighter jet, used for Quick Reaction Alert to protect British air space.
Time to Talk Day is an important reminder of the value and importance of checking-in with others, be they family, friends or colleagues. Showing you really care about their wellbeing and being present is what matters. Learn more about Leonardo's latest employee-led network group focused on wellbeing and the people it will support.
