QinetiQ

QinetiQ Group plc

Type	Public limited company
Traded as	:
Industry	Aerospace Defence Research and development
Founded	2001
Headquarters	Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Number of locations	UK, North America and Australia
Key people	Mark Elliott (chairman) Steve Wadey (CEO)
Products	Defence, security, aviation and energy and environment
Revenue	£763.8 million (2015)
Operating income	£111.3 million (2015)
Net income	£104.7 million (2015)
Number of employees	6,250 (2015)
Website	www.qinetiq.com

Coordinates: 51°16′43″N 0°47′33″W / 51.27861°N 0.79250°W / 51.27861; -0.79250

Qinetiq (/kɪˈnɛtɪk/ as in kinetic; styled as QinetiQ) is a British multinational defence technology company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire. It is the world's 52nd-largest defence contractor measured by 2011 defence revenues, and the sixth-largest based in the UK.

It is the part of the former UK government agency, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), privatised in June 2001, with the remainder of DERA renamed Dstl. It has major sites at Farnborough, Hampshire, MoD Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, and Malvern, Worcestershire, former DERA sites. It has made numerous acquisitions, primarily of United States-based companies.