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Leonardo UK Ltd

Leonardo UK | Leonardo in the UK

Leonardo is one of the UK's leading aerospace companies and one of biggest suppliers of defence and security equipment to the UK MoD, making a significant contribution to the UK economy with revenues of over 2bn, around 50% of which are in export.

CRN
02426132
Founded
1989
Age
36

Overview

Legal name
LEONARDO UK LTD
Region
London
Registered address
1 EAGLE PLACE
ST JAMES'S
LONDON
ENGLAND
SW1Y 6AF
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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CRN 02426132
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Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

7 events
23 Jan
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

10 Jun
2026

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Officers

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09 Jan
2026

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

17 Sep
2024

Accounts With Accounts Type Full

Accounts PDF pending

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Published 18 Sep 2024 06:44

25 Sep
1989

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

28 awards
First funded
2006
Funded years
2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
Age at first award
16 years

Projects

2023 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of York and Leonardo UK Ltd KTP 22_23 R2

15 Jun 2023 to 15 Dec 2025

Awarded
£0
Total cost £0

The KTP project will facilitate the creation of a strategic software architecture digital platform. By incorporating the latest research-driven developments in model-based software engineering, the platform will ensure that the company can optimally drive the engineering and delivery of their complex system of systems.

2022 Collaborative R&D

RALFS – Rydberg Atom Low Frequency Sensing

1 Nov 2022 to 30 Apr 2024

Awarded
£0
Total cost £49,991

Microwave and radio-frequency electromagnetic field sensors are key commercial application areas for quantum atomic technology. These unique sensors use atoms excited into "Rydberg states" to unlock capabilities not available through other approaches. Rydberg states are highly excited electronic states of an atom where one outer electron is kicked into a ...

2022 Collaborative R&D

Butterfly

1 Oct 2022 to 30 Sep 2024

Awarded
£206,559
Total cost £459,020

Project Butterfly brings together a consortium of UK high value and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) organisations working across sectors, along with solution providers and research organisations to share best practice and demonstrate the power of I4.0 to deliver near-term impact on the road to net zero manufacturing. The climate emergency is an importan...

2022 Collaborative R&D

CIFS - Calcium Ion Frequency Standard

1 Mar 2022 to 28 Feb 2025

Awarded
£0
Total cost £31,148

Highly accurate atomic clocks have a broad and expanding range of vital applications and are used in many aspects of our daily lives. One well-known example is the GPS navigation system which depends on sub-microsecond accurate timing to provide both position and timing information. This information is used in communications systems, telecoms, finance and...

2020 Collaborative R&D

Care & Equity – Healthcare Logistics UAS Scotland (CAELUS)

1 Dec 2020 to 31 Jul 2022

Awarded
£0
Total cost £49,986

This project brings together expertise and skills from large and small organisations, universities and non-profit research and technology organisations to demonstrate the technological and socio-economic viability of a drone-enabled distribution network for medical items such as organs, blood products, high-value medicines and medical consumables over Sco...

2020 CR&D Bilateral

Quantum Electro-Optic Detector Technology (QuEOD)

1 Sep 2020 to 31 Aug 2023

Awarded
£105,524
Total cost £211,048

The QuEOD project brings together academic and industrial partners to break through the technology barriers for novel types of time-resolved SWIR detectors and pave the way forwards for UK sovereign supply and leadership. It will to develop a unique supply chain and engage in commercial exploitation for both CMT and GaSb detector technologies for next gen...

2020 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Heriot-Watt University and Leonardo UK Limited

1 Sep 2020 to 31 Jul 2022

Awarded
Unknown

To develop the technology for a Compact, High Power Mid-Infrared Slab Laser as a Primary Laser Source

2019 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Strathclyde (The) and Leonardo MW Limited

1 Dec 2019 to 30 Nov 2021

Awarded
Unknown

To embed capability in product lifecycle, project, and engineering management, and integrate this within existing processes to implement a robust design and manufacturing process for cooled infrared detectors that will increase productivity and improv yield.

2018 Collaborative R&D

KAIROS

1 Nov 2018 to 31 Dec 2021

Awarded
£68,775
Total cost £137,549

This project will develop a pre-production prototype of a miniature atomic clock for providing precise timing to a variety of critical infrastructure services, such as reliable energy supply, safe transport links, mobile communications, data networks and electronic financial transactions. The precise measurement of time is fundamental to the effective fun...

2016 BIS-Funded Programmes

SECT-AIR

1 Jul 2016 to 30 Jun 2019

Awarded
£194,242
Total cost £463,173

SECT-AIR’s aims are to develop strategies for the UK high integrity software industry to significantly lower development costs and to scope a UK aerospace software centre-of excellence to maintain these strategies in the future. SECT-AIR plans to define processes and technologies that will make a step change reduction to software development costs; gain a...

2016 Collaborative R&D

OLIVER (Optimised Laser welding Implementation Via Enabling Research

1 Jun 2016 to 31 May 2019

Awarded
£37,166
Total cost £74,332

Current socio-economic pressures on the global civil aerospace industry are increasing the utilisation of titanium in aero-structures. Production of parts by existing methods leads to inefficient buy-to-fly ratios (as high as 20:1), which is becoming increasingly uneconomical (high material cost & labour intensive; leading to high repeat costs, long lead ...

2016 BIS-Funded Programmes Lead participant

Feasibility study to develop technology for predicting wheat yield

1 Feb 2016 to 31 Jan 2018

Awarded
£144,820
Total cost £321,822

The collaborative project between Selex ES and Frontier Agriculture will test the feasibility of developing new technology for predicting wheat yield using a wide range of data including; remotely sensed information describing the crop and soil. The project is highly innovative as it seeks to produce the first commercially viable yield prediction service ...

Product types

BIS-Funded Programmes Collaborative R&D CR&D Bilateral EU-Funded Fast Track Feasibility Studies Knowledge Transfer Partnership Small Business Research Initiative