QinetiQ is a company of over 6,000 employees that are committed to being on their clients’ side. They are pragmatic and vastly experienced, constantly seeking for innovative, nimble methods to provide actual advantage and additional value. They are also natural collaborators, excellent at building critical connections through industry collaborations and using the greatest personnel in the supply chain. These characteristics, displayed on a daily basis by its workers, indicate that QinetiQ can be relied on as a partner to enable, ensure, and safeguard its clients’ interests.
QinetiQ oversees and runs substantial testing and evaluation capabilities for air, land, and marine systems, as well as target systems. QinetiQ works closely and responsively with defense agencies, industrial customers, and academics to provide a competitive advantage through the safe and secure execution of operational and tactical training exercises that mix real-world and simulated events.
The History
When the Ministry of Defence (MOD) split its Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in two in July 2001, QinetiQ was founded. DERA’s lesser half was renamed Dstl (Defence Science & Technology Laboratory).
The majority of DERA, including the majority of non-nuclear testing and evaluation facilities, was renamed QinetiQ and readied for privatization. QinetiQ became a public-private partnership in 2002 after the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm based in the United States, purchased a share.
QinetiQ signed a 25-year long-term partnering agreement (LTPA) with the UK MOD in 2003, under which we deliver creative and realistic test and evaluation of military and civil platforms, systems, weapons, and components on land, sea, and air. QinetiQ successfully launched on the London Stock Exchange in February 2006, and the Carlyle Group sold its share in the firm.
What’s in a name?
The term ‘QinetiQ’ is the outcome of a thorough examination of all of its skills and qualities. It comes from the scientific phrase kinetic, which implies related to or created by motion. This is derived from the Greek kinetikos, which meaning ‘to move’ and has implications of being active, entrepreneurial, and dynamic. The name ‘QinetiQ’ was chosen because it embodies the company’s spirit of invention and creativity, as well as energy, mobility, and advancement.
Offering World-Class Expertise
QinetiQ provides world-class expertise in advising, services (especially test and evaluation), and new technology-based solutions to its clients. It uses its scientific and technological knowledge, established research skills, and one-of-a-kind, purpose-built facilities to supply services and products to a diverse spectrum of worldwide clients. Its primary markets are defense, security, and key national infrastructure.
Leading by Vision
QinetiQ provides world-class expertise in advising, services (especially test and evaluation), and new technology-based solutions to its clients. It uses its scientific and technological knowledge, established research skills, and one-of-a-kind, purpose-built facilities to supply services and products to a diverse spectrum of worldwide clients. QinetiQ’s primary markets include defense, security, and key national infrastructure.
The QinetiQ Supplier Code of Conduct outlines the expectations it has for its suppliers and matches the expectations it has for its own employees and directors. Acceptance of QinetiQ’s Supplier Code of Conduct is part of JOSCAR’s supplier due diligence process.
QinetiQ also supports the Defence Suppliers Forum’s new Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Code of Practice, which provides the larger Defence Industry community with advice for quantifying GHG emissions and attempts to establish a uniform approach across the Defense supply chain.
QinetiQ uses the Ariba Network to transmit Purchase Orders and receive invoices. When the first PO is sent, new suppliers will be requested to join the Ariba Network, and they should be informed that these will be delivered through the Ariba Network rather than directly from QinetiQ. Suppliers who are already members of the Ariba Network should provide QinetiQ with their Ariba Network ID (ANID) upon registering. It would also prefer all vendors to invoice through the Ariba Network, and the tutorial below explains how to do so.
Sustainable Procurement
Simply put, sustainable procurement is when a company balances the need to embed responsible and sustainable business principles into its procurement processes while also meeting the needs and requirements of the company and customers. It is also known as responsible procurement, ethical procurement, or green procurement.
It is the assessment of how a procurement choice may benefit social, economic, or environmental well-being and how one may act in assuring value creation through the procurement process.
Sustainable procurement is the new core goal, combining quality, cost, dependability, timeliness, flexibility, and innovation as critical components for maintaining a competitive business, integrating purpose, corporate accountability, and delivering value to our customers.
About the Leader
Mike Sewart, Group CTO of QinetiQ, is a customer-focused executive with a track record of establishing, motivating, and managing large-scale, high-performing teams across several organizational domains and locations.
Mike has led several transformational change programs throughout his career, including turn-around delivery programs, internal company change programs, and directing a number of transformational growth enterprises that have all generated great outcomes. He has accomplished this via a strong desire to collaborate with varied people and teams while learning and adapting to new situations and difficulties.
Mike’s strong leadership style, along with his 20 years of expertise in a variety of industry sectors, domains, and competencies, has uniquely prepared him to achieve transformative results in a variety of business circumstances.
