Qinetiq

commercial, weapons manufacturer

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Predecessor	Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
Formation	2001
Headquarters	Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Type	commercial, weapons manufacturer
Staff	9,000
Sponsor of	European Atlantic Group
Membership	John Chisholm,Graham Love,George Tenet,Pauline Neville-Jones,David Sharp,Ben Wallace,Neil Johnson,Steve Wadey,Martin Cooper,Steve Mogford,Shonaid Jemmett-Page,Dina Knight,Roger Krone,Gordon Messenger,Ezinne Uzo-Okoro,James Field,David Lees,Colin Balmer,Noreen Doyle,Peter Fellner,Nick Luff,Ed Giambastiani,David Mellors,Mark Elliott,Michael Harper,James Burnell-Nugent,Ian Mason,Paul Murray,Susan Searle,David Smith
Crown jewel of British military research, sold to the Carlyle Group in 2001.

Qinetiq is a research company privatized from the British military research programs in 2001.

Privatisation

QinetiQ was the "controversially" privatised British defence and security technology company. According to The Guardian:

QinetiQ, part of what was the formerly state-owned Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, was floated earlier this year, making tens of millions of pounds for chairman Sir John Chisholm and chief executive Graham Love.

The UK government had already sold 31% of the company to US Carlyle Group for £42m, who later sold on part of their stake for £160m.

Qinetiq runs the British Government's secret military laboratories and was set up by the MOD to work with the Carlyle Group to run DERA, the British Government's "Defence Evaluation and Research Agency".

People

• John Chisholm - chairman
• Graham Love - chief executive until November 2009
• George Tenet - non-executive director, former Director of the CIA
• Dame Pauline Neville-Jones is a former Chair Qinetiq plc,

2026 Board. Soe earlier people associated with the company.

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