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Announced during this year’s National Inclusion Week, the Ascend programme will match mentors from the Leonardo Armed Forces Network with serving RAF Personnel belonging to the RAF Ethnic Minorities Network over six months. During this period, mentees will receive one-to-one mentoring that will be tailored to fit each participant’s individual needs and future aspirations.
Opened by local MP, Adam Dance, Leonardo’s new Single Site Logistics Hub replaces eight ageing buildings with a state-of-the-art new integrated facility. Predicted to become a landmark of sustainability in the South West, the new hub’s green design extends right into the building itself, with over 25,000 cubic metres of demolition material successfully re-utilised in its construction.
Leonardo has launched its first LEAP programme to reskill Armed Forces veterans, so they can pivot into rewarding systems engineering careers around the UK. LEAP is an innovative new programme developed by a partnership – comprising Matchtech, the School of Systems Engineering (SOSE) and Innexia – that will provide specialist support and skills programmes to put veterans on a fast track to becoming systems engineers. Ex-military service personnel are the focus for the new scheme, since they offer excellent transferrable skills that are a good fit for Leonardo. The scheme’s first recruits started work as trainee systems engineers at Leonardo sites in Bristol, Southampton and Luton in September, with further cohorts planned in the future.
Leonardo is delighted to announce that its UK business has gained the Gold standard from Investors in People (IIP). As a result, the company now holds Gold level accreditation in IIP’s ‘We Invest in People’, ‘Investors in Young People’ and ‘We Invest in Wellbeing’ categories. During IIP’s recent assessment of Leonardo, hundreds of employees provided feedback on the company’s people strategy, practices and outcomes. This led to an overall Gold standard, with some areas of the framework reaching Platinum level – IIP’s highest standard.
Since 2013, Leonardo’s thermal imaging technology has brought pioneering new perspectives to BBC wildlife documentaries, thanks to its ability to capture high-resolution imagery while operating in the most challenging environments around the world. Following on from our recent ‘Top 10 Memorable Moments in Nature’ article, cameraman Louis Labrom tells us about his experiences using Leonardo technology during the filming for the 2024 BBC series Mammals, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
Each year, Leonardo marks South Asian Heritage Month with events hosted across our UK sites. The month is a fantastic opportunity to recognise and celebrate the diverse cultures, histories and contributions of South Asian communities within our organisation.
At Farnborough International Airshow, Leonardo has published a new report by independent analysts at Oxford Economics. The report highlights the continued contribution of Leonardo to the growth of the UK economy and the increase in investment in research and development over the last five years. The report showed that R&D spend by Leonardo UK had more than doubled since 2018, with the company spending nearly £500 million on R&D activities in 2023 alone. The company also conducted £1.4 billion of R&D activity over the five preceding years. This has included major investment in digital and data technologies and capabilities, which Leonardo expects to become central to its business as it continues to grow in the UK.
The three nations of the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) – UK, Italy, and Japan – have unveiled a new concept model of their next generation combat aircraft at Farnborough International Airshow. Exhibiting at the show together for the first time, the three GCAP government partners and their lead industry partners BAE Systems (UK), Leonardo (Italy) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan) will showcase the significant strides they are making to progress the delivery of a next generation combat aircraft. The new concept model on display in Hall 5 features a much more evolved design with a wingspan larger than previous concepts to improve the aerodynamics of the future combat aircraft.
Between 22-26 July, Leonardo once again participated at the Farnborough International Airshow Visit our microsite to the 2024 air show to relive the highlights from the week.
Maximising impact and delivery of UK defence capability through the Whole Force ethos will be down to shared ambition and closer integration between those working across the military and industry, according to Dave Appleby, Leonardo’s Group Business Development Director UK, who addressed delegates today at The Chief of the Air Staff’s Global Air & Space Chiefs’ Conference 2024.
