Webinar: Developing robust guidance solutions for UAVs and loitering munitions

Ummanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and loitering munitions have become increasingly popular over the last few years in conflicts given their effectiveness and cost. They offer a range of characteristics and benefits which include their loitering capability and precision.

They are a lot more cost-effective than traditional missiles, and they offer flexibility and adaptability in that they can be used in a variety of missions and scenarios. However, their increasing popularity and strengths are also counteracted by a number of weaknesses including:

  • Vulnerability to Air Defences: They travel relatively slow compared to guided munitions and so they can be shot down by air defences.
  • Given their cost-effective design and desire to maintain a certain size and weight they have a limitation on the size of payloads that they can carry
  • Also given the cost focus on the platforms, their guidance solutions are also typically prone to jamming and spoofing from hostile forces which can make them ineffective in their missions

This webinar will provide an overview of the UAV and loitering munitions application space and how guidance solutions and testing environments are evolving to enhance the effectiveness of these units in hostile and contested environments where there can be high levels of jamming and spoofing present.

Date: 17 March 2026
Time: 10:00 – 11:00am
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Webinar Speaker bios

Ciarán is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a BSc. (Eng.) from Trinity College and MBA from Nottingham University. He started his career in instrumentation with the AMETEK Group initially in the Engineering section and then moving through manufacturing to a product management role. He has spent more 20 years in senior product management roles in the instrumentation arena operating for global businesses in which he has completed extensive market research and a variety of product launches. For the last 3 years he has operated within QinetiQ Ltd. with responsibility for the PNT portfolio within the business. Within this remit he has completed detailed research within the UAV and Loitering Munitions arena with a view to understanding their guidance challenges and PNT requirements.

Ciaran Murphy, Senior Product Manager - PNT Portfolio QinetiQ

Ian is a Chartered Electronics Engineer a M.Eng from Southampton University. Ian has over 30 years of experience in the fields of navigations and military and civil communications systems. His principal areas of expertise include; System Engineering, Navigation, Digital Electronics, RF Electronics and Communications Systems. This expertise has been developed through working on a wide range of projects with QinetiQ and its predecessors including; GNSS open service receiver design and testing, Galileo PRS security modules, Military Satcom, Civil Mobile phone base-station technology and telemetry/video radio links for Unmanned Air & Ground Vehicles. Most recently, Ian has been the System Design Authority for the Q40 GNSS receiver project and PNT portfolio at QinetiQ.

Matthew is a Chartered Aerospace Engineer who started with QinetiQ in 2016 in Safety Engineering, from this he led the transition of the Test Pilot School to a Civil regulated organisation, working with the school for five years. During this time he was technical lead for a first of type civil modification of an G reg aircraft to drop sensor articles. In 2020 Matt started working on Future T&E facility requirements, which has led to his current role as a Technical Lead within Droneworks where he creates new T&E capability alongside running UAS trials.

Matthew Titman, UAS Technical Lead, Droneworks