IN Brief:
- Keysight will provide Test Equipment Managed Services for Leonardo UK under a five-year agreement.
- The work covers calibration, repair, asset lifecycle management, and digital test-equipment coordination.
- Aerospace and defence production depends on test availability, traceability, and measurement confidence.
Keysight extends Leonardo UK test services
Keysight Technologies has secured a five-year contract with Leonardo UK to deliver Test Equipment Managed Services across multiple UK sites.
The agreement covers calibration, repair, and asset lifecycle management for test equipment used across Leonardo’s aerospace and defence operations. Keysight will support equipment availability, compliance, and lifecycle performance for engineering and production teams.
The TEMS agreement provides an integrated model built around central coordination, digital asset management tools, logistics support, calibration, repair management, and optimisation. Keysight has worked with Leonardo UK on the TEMS project since 2016, and the new agreement extends and expands that collaboration.
Luca Tommasi, general manager at Keysight Services EMEA, said: “Leonardo continues to set the standard in aerospace and defence innovation, where precision, reliability, and operational excellence are paramount. This collaboration ensures sustained peak performance, with Keysight delivering the visibility, compliance, and lifecycle support required in highly complex environments.”
Garry Clark, Test Equipment Management Services superintending officer at Leonardo, said: “Keysight has consistently demonstrated exceptional service levels and reporting standards since holding the TEMS contract, and we are very pleased to have selected them for another five years.”
Test equipment management sits close to engineering risk in aerospace and defence production. Instruments that are unavailable, out of calibration, poorly tracked, or delayed in repair can disrupt schedules and weaken confidence in final test data. In regulated environments, the record of how a measurement was made can be as important as the measurement itself.
The agreement also reflects a wider shift in engineering services, where equipment, software, data, and workflow control are being managed as one capability. Keysight’s recent work on electrical-optical-electrical simulation in ADS 2026 and RF workflow capture for AI-assisted design sits on the design side of the same movement toward more structured and traceable engineering environments.
Leonardo’s UK operations sit within a defence and aerospace market where production demand, electronic complexity, and support requirements are all rising. Radar, electronic warfare, avionics, sensors, communications, and mission systems depend on high-confidence measurement across development, qualification, production, and in-service support.
As systems become more software-defined and electronically dense, the test burden increases. RF performance, timing, signal integrity, power behaviour, environmental performance, and compliance evidence all have to be maintained through production and support cycles. Managing the instruments behind those tests becomes part of maintaining the capability itself.
A managed-service model can also reduce hidden friction inside engineering organisations. Calibration schedules, repair logistics, asset utilisation, procurement planning, and reporting often consume time across engineering and production teams. Centralising that work gives Leonardo a clearer view of its test estate while keeping specialist service support close to the installed equipment base.
The five-year term gives both companies a longer planning horizon for test asset optimisation. Aerospace and defence programmes often run across decades, so continuity in calibration, repair, and lifecycle planning can help align test capability with production demand, obsolescence management, and evolving measurement requirements.
