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Nature 437, 316 (15 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437316a; Published online 14 September 2005
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A share offering beckons this autumn for QinetiQ, a business that is being built out of some of Britain's most famous military research laboratories. Andrea Chipman reports.
The low-rise, glass-and-steel research campus that houses QinetiQ in Farnborough, south-west of London, betrays few signs of the company's historic pedigree. It was on this site that the then Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) developed many military aircraft that flew in the Second World War, and contributed to the design of Concorde.
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