We are a company of over 8,000 scientists and engineers committed to listening, understanding and responding to our customers' needs. This enables us to use our depth of experience and our unique science and engineering expertise to equip them with powerful solutions to their most pressing challenges. We offer our customers world-class expertise in advice, services (particularly test and evaluation) and innovative technology-based products. We deploy our scientific and technological knowledge, proven research capabilities and unique, purpose-built facilities to provide both services and products that meet the needs of a wide range of global customers. We operate primarily in the defence, security and critical national infrastructure markets, combining deep technical expertise with bold innovation to solve complex challenges across land, sea, air, space and cyber.

We are a company of over 8,000 people dedicated to being on the side of our customers. Our people are pragmatic and hugely experienced, looking always for enterprising, agile ways to create real benefit and added value. They are also natural collaborators, adept at making vital connections through forging industry partnerships and harnessing the best talents within the supply chain. It is these qualities, demonstrated every day by our employees, that mean we can be trusted as a partner to enable, assure and protect our customers' interests.

We deliver mission-critical capabilities across defence and security. We design, develop, test and support systems to help give our customers an operational advantage. We provide world-class facilities, technologies and expertise to support the testing, evaluation and training of defence systems and personnel—ensuring readiness and reliability in real-world conditions. Our teams deliver specialist support to enhance operational performance, resilience and decision-making. From strategic planning to frontline environments, we help customers achieve mission success. We advance science and technology to shape future capabilities. Our R&D drives innovation across autonomy, sensing, cyber and beyond—enabling our customers to stay ahead of emerging threats.

Our purpose is protecting lives by serving the national security interests of our customers. We employ more than 8,000 highly-skilled people, committed to creating new ways of testing technologies, systems, and processes to make sure they meet operational needs; and enabling customers to deploy new and enhanced capabilities with the assurance they will deliver the performance required.

Our QinetiQ purpose and strategy is enabled by our high performance inclusive culture, underpinned by our values and behaviours and our commitment to deliver responsibly and sustainably for the benefit of all of our stakeholders. Our mission is to be a world-class enabler of growth, competitiveness and global business delivery by seamlessly integrating industrial partners into the QinetiQ enterprise.

Our customers trust us because we combine over 150 years of heritage in test and evaluation with cutting-edge innovation. We manage and operate extensive testing and evaluation capabilities for air, land, sea and target systems. We collaborate closely and responsively to give defence departments, industry customers and academia a competitive edge through the safe and secure conduct of operational and tactical training exercises that combine both real world and simulated events. We have access to over £100 million of advanced test facilities and equipment, including one of the world's largest ocean basins, a 270m towing tank, and world-leading research facilities.

We are committed to delivering responsibly and sustainably for the benefit of all our stakeholders. Our goal is to be a Net-Zero company by 2050 or sooner with achievable and ambitious near-term emissions reduction targets. We embed an environmentally sustainable approach and reduce and manage our impacts on the immediate and wider environment and society by protecting the environment, preventing and limiting the effects of pollution, using natural resources efficiently, minimizing waste and supporting conservation and biodiversity. Many of our sites have significant protected conservation areas of national and international importance—we take our stewardship of these 53 important locations very seriously, balancing complex trials with careful protection of rare flora and fauna. We maintain ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 certification and are working to help our customers achieve their Net-Zero ambitions.

We are committed to discovering and supporting the next generation of scientists and engineers. We undertake a broad range of STEM outreach activities including supporting youth groups such as cadets. We are a founding member of The 5% Club and actively support apprenticeships, graduate programmes and sponsored students. Across QinetiQ Group we have charity partners chosen by our people including Alzheimer's Society and Alzheimer Scotland, British Heart Foundation and Combat Stress in the UK, and Legacy in Australia. We provide onward career support for wounded, injured and sick service personnel.

Our Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging strategy focuses on creating an environment where people have a true sense of belonging, enabling us to retain and attract the very best people. We are committed to fostering inclusive behaviours and creating an environment where our people can thrive, and actively increasing the diversity of our company to reflect the communities in which we operate. We have numerous employee-led networks across the globe including LGBTQIA+, veterans and reservists, neurodiversity, race & ethnicity (RISE), and gender equality networks. We are proud to be signatories of the Women in Defence Charter and are committed to a target of 30% female representation by 2030 for our global workforce. We are global members of the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion and have received the Workplace Gender Equality Agency Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation in Australia.