Everything we achieve is in partnership with others

A partnership approach is fundamental to the way we work, and the nature of our partnerships is as varied as the customers we work with:

• As one of the UK MOD’s largest suppliers, we collaborate on over 1000 defence contracts at any one time, including the current stability and handling trials of the Royal Navy’s two new aircraft carriers at our Ocean Basin, the largest in Europe
• We’re the engine room behind NASA’s space programmes, providing test, integration, communications and telemetry services, and base operations support
• The European Space Agency (ESA) came to us to build Proba-2, one of its smallest ever satellites, and to develop our revolutionary T5 ion thrusters to power its GOCE Spacecraft
• Organisations like British Airways and leading banking institutions rely on our secure monitoring service to protect them against cyber attack
• We support allied troops by, for example, working with Carson Helicopters to improve the speed and lift of the Sea King helicopter to meet the demands of operations in Afghanistan
• Boeing is a regular customer of our low-speed wind tunnel, one of just three in the world, while our 1,500m test track at Pendine in Wales – the longest in Europe – recently tested small probes that will allow scientific measurements to be taken from the far side of the Moon for the first time

Projects like these require long-term commitment to customers’ aims and objectives, and a collaborative approach to solving problems. But above all, they require mutual trust. With some 95% of our UK and 75% of our US employees having national security clearance, our customers know they can trust us even with their secrets.