Building blocks for U.S. defense operations
QinetiQ North America offers defense customers leading-edge products and services using the latest advances in technology to rapidly develop, integrate and support mission critical needs. Our broad range of lifecycle management solutions serves many of the basic building blocks of U.S. defense operations, including the support of special operations forces, maritime control, air dominance and global logistics.
We deliver solutions and systems for defense operational and readiness environments. From simulation of systems performance, to integrating legacy weapons systems with state-of the-art sensors, to reducing operational and support costs with advanced logistics systems, we are committed to delivering the very best technology and service solutions.
Underlying our capabilities are the following commitments to service:
- Focus on readiness: As experts at weapons systems life-cycle management, we help shorten cycle-times, improve operational agility, and make existing weapons as good as they were prior to deployment.
- Reliability: Our history of successful operations extends more than 30 years. Ninety percent of our annual growth comes from satisfied customers.
- Innovation: We understand your need for rapid, cost-effective solutions. Our commander’s dashboards, SOA initiatives, immersive training, smart container are just a few of our newest developments.
- Cost-consciousness: We develop and support programs that help reduce total life-cycle costs, such as CBM and ULLS-AE

Expertise in action: Prime contractor for the U.S. Army’s Combat Readiness Center
We have been the prime contractor for the U.S. Army’s Combat Readiness Center (CRC) for more than 20 years, managing its IT infrastructure and developing safety-related management information systems. We provide experienced technicians, programmers, database developers and administrators, and program coordinators to keep CRC’s IT capabilities state-of-the-art.
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Expertise in action: Enhance the effectiveness of military software
At the Software Engineering Directorate (SED), Aviation and Missile, Research and Development Engineering Center (AMRDEC) we design, develop, engineer, test and accredit software used in air and ballistic missile defense, fire support, close combat, aviation, C4 interoperability, ISR and automatic test equipment. These wide ranging projects improve the effectiveness and reliability of software used in helicopters, tanks, personnel carriers and other military systems.
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Expertise in action: Support the Tomahawk Command and Control System and more
We developed an Intelligence Situational Awareness Tool (ISAT) that provides enhanced and proven C4 to any weapons system, in any domain. Our ISAT software provides track correlation and data fusion tools to support the Tomahawk Command and Control System, AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense, and the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, among others.
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Expertise in action: Service oriented architecture programs for Department of Defense
We support Department of Defense (DoD) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) programs, including the Acquisition Visibility (AV) SOA for the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L). We provide a wide range of system design and development services to the AT&L organization in its efforts to bring about a fundamental overhaul of the DoD’s approach to acquisition management.
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Expertise in action: Advanced Naval Control Systems (ANCS)
We are currently designing and producing hardware and software for the next generation U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the CVN-78 USS Ford. Our equipment is being integrated on America’s most modern warship to launch aircraft using the Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and arrest aircraft using the Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG).
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