Our customers require engineering and programmes support throughout the space lifecycle to innovate, identify technology opportunities/risks, capture requirements, procure capability, assure operational capability before it comes into service, and monitor performance once in service.
QinetiQ has world-leading technical experts, programme professionals, military veterans and facilities across the range of STEM disciplines, customer priorities, operational domains, and UK and global geographies.
We pride ourselves on being a trusted, innovative partner to our customers, to enable, assure and protect national interests under the following capability themes:
- Secure Communications — Expertise in MILSATCOM, RF, Free Space Optical Communications, vulnerability testing, robust UK cryptography solutions and jamming protection for our TT&C links.
- Space Domain Awareness –Including expertise in Space weather, optical and RF space object tracking and sensing from the ground and within space.
- Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT)— Secure PNT Receivers, end-to-ending system testing, Alternative Navigation techniques including quantum.
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance — Including expertise in Synthetic Aperture Rader (SAR), quantum sensing, processing and exploitation, OSINT, ELINT and SIGINT.
- Command and Control — Security and Human Factors
- Space Control — Helping to protect and defend space systems against the threats from, for example, Cyber, EW, LDEW
- Data Intelligence — Expertise assisting the customer extract value from complex data sets
- Launch — Experience in space launches including launch ranging services
QinetiQ provides these capabilities through System Engineering and Technical Support, as well as other services such as Operational Analysis and Wargaming. QinetiQ has a long, proud history of supporting customers with the provision of, for example, engineering and technical outcomes as MOD’s Engineering Delivery Partner (the default route for the procurement of engineering services for the UK’s DE&S, and is available to other MOD departments and agencies) and professional services to the US’s Space Development Agency.
