Qinetiq Limited

Modern infrastructure is increasingly dependent on highly accurate timing. This ranges across navigation systems on multiple platforms, the delivery of power around the national grid, timestamping of financial transactions though MiFID II regulations to name but a few. The demand for highly accurate timekeeping across ever larger systems is growing with t...

Over reliance on GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite system) for modern infrastructure such as position, navigation and timing is a well-documented and a timely challenge. Spoofing and jamming of the timing and location signals makes navigation by GNSS vulnerable to bad actors, with many notable examples of such attacks affecting both military and commercia...

Quantum computation has the potential to revolutionise a vast number of industries that rely on high-performance computation, such as in pharmaceutical and chemical research, automotive, finance, and logistics. A well-known example in logistics is that of the travelling salesman problem: Given a list of destinations and the distances between them, what is...

QinetiQ is developing a new active optical remote sensing technology, Software Defined Multifunction Lidar (SDML), designed to provide multiple sensing, imaging and communications capabilities within a single package. This proposal into the High Altitude Intelligence Cross-Sector Innovation Challenge is designed to expand the SDML capability further by ev...

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...

Self-healing materials are of great advantage in everyday life as they allow for reduced repair costs, more economical use of resources, and increased product lifetimes. In the medical sector, they could allow users who are highly reliant on their devices to live without the inconvenience and discomfort of having to repair or replace these. Biology has ev...

"One of the big challenges for electric vehicles is to meet the peak power requirements in all modes of operation, at all ambient temperatures. The automotive council has set targets for the power density of Li-ion batteries to quadruple by 2035\. This project will develop, test and scale-up new ultra-high-power cells for electric vehicle batteries that h...

"Despite our increasing ability to detect and monitor objects that exist on land, sea, around buildings or in space, our ability to detect objects beneath the ground has not improved significantly. When it comes to attempting to locate a buried and forgotten pipe, telling the extent of a sink hole or assessing the quality of infrastructure we still often ...

"QinetiQ, a UK multinational defence technology company based in Farnborough, Hampshire, has teamed up with a number of the UK's top innovative technology providers in response to Innovate UK's Research and Developments competition for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in extreme and challenging Environments. The title of the project is ""Cthulhu"" nam...

QinetiQ Ltd, Imperial College and Oxford University will jointly investigate the use of novel gravity gradiometers to detect buried objects such as pipes, tunnels and sinkholes. We will model the gravitational field of a range of buried targets, and investigate methods to mitigate noise and clutter. We will determine what type of objects are detectable, a...

Radar and its optical counterpart, lidar, are well established and widely used technologies. The first is typically exploited for long-range detection, while lidar, operating at visible to near infrared wavelengths, offers improved resolution yet at a shorter distance. With the recent advances in quantum technologies, we can now investigate the feasibilit...

- BACKGROUND: Peptides are a versatile class of biomolecule that can be deployed as critical components in advanced materials. These materials have tremendous commercial potential across several sectors (e.g. oil and gas, aerospace and medical). - PROBLEM: Peptide components that are developed using traditional approaches frequently lack the biophysical a...