Leonardo UK CIO - Gareth Hetheridge’s cloud platform enables innovation to lift off

Headlines from the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East reveal that technology has changed military operations. Drones, new communications channels and data are reshaping the battlefield. For the specialist firms that supply the armed forces, this has increased the pace of business change, leading to new operating models, manufacturing methods and a central role for digital technology.

CIO for Leonardo UK, Gareth Hetheridge, has been piloting some of the most significant changes seen in defence supply. In the last three years, Leonardo UK, part of the Italian defence specialist, has become an industry pioneer in data-led manufacturing and has implemented an innovation platform and a cloud computing environment that meets the stringent and necessary requirements of this highly sensitive sector.

The armed forces working with Leonardo are increasingly asking for digital and data services as part of helicopter or electronics procurements:

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