We are a specialist manufacturing and technology business with unique market positions at the heart of national security, defence and space sectors. We work with our customers globally helping to protect their people, assets and nations, where agility, expertise and innovation are key to meeting their complex and evolving needs.
We enjoy market-leading positions, often sole source and qualified on a particular platform, with a wide range of governments and blue-chip companies around the world. Our core competencies include:
- The manufacture of specialist materials and devices – military explosives, propellants and pyrotechnic actuators that are used in a wide variety of applications, from artillery rounds and strike missiles to aircrew escape systems and heavy launch space vehicles.
- Supporting UK intelligence and law enforcement agencies with operational mission support and active cyber defence.
- Advanced defence technologies including tactical electronic warfare, counter drone and digital battlefield command and control systems.
- Global leader in the manufacture and development of advanced countermeasures to protect air and naval platforms from the threat of missiles.
- Highly effective detection systems for the US military to counter the threat of biological warfare agents.
With significant exposure to both short-cycle munitions rearmament and longer- cycle structural changes in defence technology requirements, Chemring is well placed to capitalise on growing European and US defence sector budgets.
Our core capabilities are:
- Operational Mission Support Services
- Access and operational cyber capabilities
- Technology insertion to accelerate mission outcomes
- Active Cyber Defence
- Deep knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber and AI
- Trusted supplier to UK Government and the world’s largest companies
- Open-source Intelligence
- Blending human expertise and machine learning for faster and more informed decision making
- UK leaders in open-source intelligence technologies for geospatial applications
- Land Electronic Warfare ("EW") Systems
- Leading provider of Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (“CEMA”) technology
- 800+ engineers and scientists delivering information advantage to clients
- Sensors
- Broad range of IP for bio-security, including bio-surveillance and point-of-care diagnostics
- Expertise and know-how across the complete lifecycle – from product design to development and production
- Air and Naval Countermeasures
- Global leader in countermeasures with >65% market share
- We supply 85% of NATO air fleets and 60% of NATO naval fleets
- Speciality Materials
- World-leading producer of specialised energetic materials
- Expertise in propellants for a broad range of aerospace and defence applications
- Precision Engineered Devices
- We are a key supplier to NASA, SpaceX and Martin-Baker
- We had over 230 parts on the Mars Perseverance mission
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