Kathryn Williamson Hall a programme manager for Radar production at Leonardo UK has been named Young Project Professional of the Year at the annual Association for Project Management (APM) Awards.
Defence industry leaders from the UK, Japan and Italy have agreed a collaboration agreement to deliver the concept phase of a sixth generation fighter jet for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).
The Somerset town with a long history in aerospace has marked its proud heritage and bright future with official boundary signage and tributes to the “Home of British Helicopters.”
Engineering design consultancy specialist, Morson Projects reveals how it is helping Leonardo’s South West of England helicopter facility to take flight by using an outsourced approach to high-flying talent.
Leonardo and Morson Projects have signed a long-term Strategic Partnering Agreement (SPA), which will enable the UK’s only onshore helicopter manufacturer to offload engineering work to augment the company’s existing highly skilled engineering capacity.
Leonardo wants to give experienced Luton and Bristol engineers a golden opportunity to re-enter industry, to work on one of its most exciting projects to date – the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).
As part of Leonardo’s “Social Value” series, the company hosted the workshop “Destination Net Zero, Leonardo and Small Medium Enterprises working together on the journey” led by SWMAS (South West Manufacturing Advisory Service) at the iAero Centre in Yeovil, Somerset.
In what is believed to be a world first for industry, Leonardo engineers have created a fully automated end-to-end fighter jet radar array test facility at their site at Crewe Toll in Edinburgh.
Leonardo and BAE Systems are actively progressing UK-Italy collaboration opportunities on a demonstrator aircraft as part of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme, in the framework of a cooperation path launched by Italy and the UK in the defence sector.
Leonardo has launched a new data-driven approach to design and manufacturing at its electronics sites across the UK, with a new ‘common data environment’ going live, initially at sites in Edinburgh, Luton, Basildon and Southampton.