The Royal Signals and Radar Establishment was a scientific research establishment within the Ministry of Defence's Defence Procurement Agency of the United Kingdom, located primarily at Malvern in Worcestershire. It was formed in the 1970s in an amalgamation of earlier resarch establishments including the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE). In 1979 it merged with the Services Electronic Research Establishment (SERL) formerly at Baldock. The Ministry of Defence building, Whitehall, Westminster, London The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and the headquarters of the UK military. ... DPA headquarters, Bristol The Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), is an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence responsible for the acquisition of material and equipment, as well as associated services, for the British armed forces. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... Malvern is the name of a town in Worcestershire, England. ... Worcestershire (pronounced wuster-shur, wuster-sheer or wuster-shyer; abbreviated Worcs) is a county, located in the West Midlands region of central England. ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... This article needs cleanup. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Location within the British Isles. ...

In June 2001 it became independent of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) being incorporated into a limited company, QinetiQ, owned by the MoD. In 2003, the Carlyle Group bought a private equity stake (~30%) in QinetiQ. 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: June 5-June 9 - Houston, Texas is devastated by flooding when Tropical Storm Allison dumps 36 inches of rain on the city. ... A limited company (Ltd. ... QinetiQ is a British military technology company, created out of the greater part of the government agency DERA when it was split up in 2001. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... The Carlyle Group is a Washington, D.C. based global private equity investment firm with more than $24 billion of equity capital. ...

Some of the most important technologies developed from work at RSRE are radar, thermal imaging, liquid crystal displays and speech synthesis. M*A*S*H, see Corporal Walter (Radar) OReilly. ... Night-vision is seeing in the dark. ... LCD redirects here. ... Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. ...

The RSRE motto was Ubique Sentio.

External links

• RSRE history (http://www.qinetiq.com/about_qinetiq/history.html) RSRE History page at QinetiQ web site.
• [1] (http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/16/1/401) E H Putley article in 'Physics in Technology'.
• Defence Procurement Agency (http://www.mod.uk/dpa/)