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Chair of Leonardo UK’s Pride Network Group, Sam Bone, reviews how this year’s Pride Month has provided an opportunity for Leonardo colleagues across the UK to gain more visibility and awareness of LGBTQ+ issues.
To mark International Women in Engineering Day 2022, Leonardo Helicopter UK Managing Director and executive sponsor of the company’s Equalise Network Group, Adam Clarke, explains how Leonardo is striving for greater gender equality and opportunities for women at all levels.
The pandemic has brought people’s mental and physical health into sharp focus during the past two and half years. Men’s Health Week 2022 (13-19 June) focuses on encouraging men to take stock of their wellbeing and complete the Men’s Health Forum quick and easy DIY Man MOT. With this in mind, we spoke to Mark Hamilton, Managing Director of Leonardo’s UK Electronics business, to hear why taking time to look after your physical and mental health is important to us all – as individuals and colleagues.
The theme for Carers Week 2022 is ‘making caring visible, valued and supported’. With this in mind, Julian Russell, Finance Director for the Leonardo UK Helicopter business and executive sponsor of the company’s Carers Network, explains what he’s learned as a carer during the past 17 years and why raising awareness of carers’ needs is vital.
Operational maritime activities are changing, as navies adapt to the increasingly complex international security environment and look to benefit from technology proliferation. Leonardo Account Manager, Maritime Defence Electronics, Jack Green examines the challenges and explains how industry is supporting.
At the end of April 2022, Leonardo hosted more than 25 companies spanning UK aerospace and industry to share the latest thinking and a range of perspectives on “Unlocking Social Value”. The event took place at the new iAero aerospace collaboration centre in Somerset, which is located next to Leonardo in Yeovil, the ‘Home of British Helicopters’. The forum generated an open discussion on the role companies can play in working collaboratively on social value initiatives to enrich local communities, skills, and the wider industry.
Learn more about our DIRCM Directed Infrared Countermeasures technology and discover how the Leonardo Miysis DIRCM is already protecting airborne systems for UK and NATO end-users.
Leonardo has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category, for technology that aircrew and soldiers have said makes them feel safer when they have to fly into danger zones. The company is one of 226 organisations across the country to be recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise. The Innovation Award category acknowledges the ingenuity of Leonardo’s infrared countermeasure (IRCM) technology, which protects aircraft against heat-seeking missiles. First-hand feedback from both soldiers flying as passengers and aircrew operating the aircraft has confirmed that they don’t want to fly without the protection afforded by the system, because of its ability to deflect multiple missiles coming towards an aircraft from different directions. Visit our website for the full article.
We’re proud to sponsor #AFBELive22. To coincide with this year's Association For Black and minority ethnic Engineers event at the IET in London, we caught up with Leonardo’s #Ethnicity Network Group #STEM Lead and Mechanical #Engineer, Arvind about the importance of mentorship to social mobility.
The recognition of Leonardo experts in the New Year’s Vice Chief of the Defence Staff Commendation award – for their contribution to the Strategic Partnering Arrangement with the UK MOD to further protect the nation’s military aircraft – is more evidence of the company’s trailblazing work to keep aircrews and their aircraft protected on operations around the world. Leonardo’s Wayne Smith explains how the company is building upon a century’s heritage and expertise designing and producing high-tech air platform protection solutions.
