Supporting the Aerospace Industry

The Aerospace industry faces a key challenge in meeting society's demands in terms of environmental sustainability. Constraining the demand for air travel is not the solution - this would simply stifle economic growth to the point of putting the future at risk.

The aerospace industry can only meet this challenge by renewing and reinforcing its commitment to the creation, validation and insertion of new technologies that can significantly improve aviation's performance in terms of emissions and noise.

The UK aerospace industry is a success story, built upon decades of research, innovation and excellence. But in today's world, past successes are no guarantee for the future. Further innovation and aggressive investment in research and technology are an absolute must, in what is now a globally competitive arena.

These twin driving forces - a sustained industry with innovative and globally-competitive products; and sustainable aviation, are the agenda we believe will shape the decades ahead.

We also believe these will be decades with decisive steps in technological advancement - and decades in which QinetiQ is perfectly placed to partner with the aerospace industry to create and deploy these technologies.