We are creating a bold vision for the future - a once-in-a-generation adventure to bring ground-breaking, game-changing technology to life.
Inside our Ideas Factory, we have extraordinary people working on Tempest - one of the UK’s biggest and most critical science and technology projects.
Through Tempest, we are creating innovations like virtual cockpits, which use computer games technology to beam the controls pilots need to fly an aircraft directly through their helmet visor.
We have people working alongside robotics in our digitally-connected future factory, which will eventually see people propelled up and down production lines via exo-skeletons.
We are working alongside the best designers and inventors in the UK and world-wide, in areas like augmented and virtual reality, Artificial Intelligence, data analytics, cobotics, 3D printing and more.
Our mission? To create a world-leading, future air system which will operate at the cutting edge of what is possible; an advanced, connected futuristic capability which help protect our country and our allies across the globe for the next 60 years and beyond.
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction – but it is already happening.
To make it a success, we need the engineers, the manufacturers, the technologists, the scientists and the thinkers of tomorrow.
We need ‘Generation Tempest’ to bring new thinking and new ways of working to the project. We need people who want to operate alongside international organisations, working across time zones and cultures, as well as with the very best the UK’s technology sector has to offer.
We need people ready to work with us to bring the ideas of tomorrow to life.
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New multi-million pound investment to boost technologies for the UK’s future combat aircraft
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded a contract extension worth £656 million to BAE Systems to progress the concepting and technology of the next generation combat aircraft, known as Tempest in the UK. -
UK industry to play key role in new Global Combat Air Programme, delivering next phase of combat air fighter jet development
The UK’s sovereign industry partners, under Team Tempest, will support the significant endeavour announced today by the Governments of the UK, Japan and Italy, which will see the three nations build a truly international programme, with a shared ambition to develop a next generation fighter aircraft under a new Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP). -
UK and Sweden partner on future combat air
Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt and her Swedish counterpart Peter Hultqvist have signed a landmark agreement to partner on future combat air. -
BAE Systems calls for nationwide effort to develop skills for Industry 4.0
BAE Systems has called for a concentrated effort by industry, Government and the education sector to ensure the UK can fully benefit from the digital revolution and Industry 4.0 -
UK Government launches opportunity for industry to collaborate on the development of next-generation air power
Companies from across the UK defence industry have come together in the first opportunity for suppliers to engage with the Government and Team Tempest partners over the future of Combat Air System development in the UK. -
Getting Connected at This Year’s Big Bang Fair 2019
Thousands of young people at this year’s Big Bang Fair got the chance to put their coding skills into practice and learn how GPS works whilst visiting our interactive exhibit based on this year’s UK Education Roadshow theme - “Getting Connected”.
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Overview
We are creating a bold vision for the future - a once-in-a-generation adventure to bring ground-breaking, game-changing technology to life.
Inside our Ideas Factory, we have extraordinary people working on Tempest - one of the UK’s biggest and most critical science and technology projects.Through Tempest, we are creating innovations like virtual cockpits, which use computer games technology to beam the controls pilots need to fly an aircraft directly through their helmet visor.We have people working alongside robotics in our digitally-connected future factory, which will eventually see people propelled up and down production lines via exo-skeletons.We are working alongside the best designers and inventors in the UK and world-wide, in areas like augmented and virtual reality, Artificial Intelligence, data analytics, cobotics, 3D printing and more.Our mission? To create a world-leading, future air system which will operate at the cutting edge of what is possible; an advanced, connected futuristic capability which help protect our country and our allies across the globe for the next 60 years and beyond.It sounds like the stuff of science fiction – but it is already happening.
To make it a success, we need the engineers, the manufacturers, the technologists, the scientists and the thinkers of tomorrow.We need ‘Generation Tempest’ to bring new thinking and new ways of working to the project. We need people who want to operate alongside international organisations, working across time zones and cultures, as well as with the very best the UK’s technology sector has to offer.We need people ready to work with us to bring the ideas of tomorrow to life. -
News
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New multi-million pound investment to boost technologies for the UK’s future combat aircraft
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded a contract extension worth £656 million to BAE Systems to progress the concepting and technology of the next generation combat aircraft, known as Tempest in the UK. -
UK industry to play key role in new Global Combat Air Programme, delivering next phase of combat air fighter jet development
The UK’s sovereign industry partners, under Team Tempest, will support the significant endeavour announced today by the Governments of the UK, Japan and Italy, which will see the three nations build a truly international programme, with a shared ambition to develop a next generation fighter aircraft under a new Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP). -
UK and Sweden partner on future combat air
Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt and her Swedish counterpart Peter Hultqvist have signed a landmark agreement to partner on future combat air. -
BAE Systems calls for nationwide effort to develop skills for Industry 4.0
BAE Systems has called for a concentrated effort by industry, Government and the education sector to ensure the UK can fully benefit from the digital revolution and Industry 4.0 -
UK Government launches opportunity for industry to collaborate on the development of next-generation air power
Companies from across the UK defence industry have come together in the first opportunity for suppliers to engage with the Government and Team Tempest partners over the future of Combat Air System development in the UK. -
Getting Connected at This Year’s Big Bang Fair 2019
Thousands of young people at this year’s Big Bang Fair got the chance to put their coding skills into practice and learn how GPS works whilst visiting our interactive exhibit based on this year’s UK Education Roadshow theme - “Getting Connected”.
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