At its heart, science is a way of understanding the world around us. It is about asking questions, testing ideas, gathering evidence and using knowledge to solve problems.

AWE engineers have again been recognised through the prestigious Whitworth Scholarship Awards, underlining the organisation’s continued strength in developing outstanding engineering talent.

AWE is proud to recognise an outstanding achievement within its engineering community.

At AWE, our mission demands exceptional thinking and collaboration. The challenges we solve are complex, the responsibilities we carry are significant, and the solutions we deliver rely on bringing together people with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives.

As the 2025–2026 academic year draws to a close, AWE is celebrating another successful year of inspiring young people through its school engagement programme.

A new alliance of 35 UK universities will boost defence industry skills, new technologies and research, as part of a £182 million investment. 

AWE’s Engineering Visualisation team has evolved significantly since its early beginnings, growing from a small virtual reality (VR) unit into a specialist capability that supports projects across the business. 

More than 90 AWE-sponsored postgraduate students and academics from over 20 universities came together at the University of Warwick for AWE’s annual postgraduate student conference, focused on materials science and engineering. 

The National Research Organisations (NRO) Group officially launches today (Thursday 9 July) at the Academy of Medical Sciences, London.

In partnership with the Worshipful Company of Engineers and the Engineers Trust, AWE is proud to announce India Skelt as the winner of the 2026 Defence Industry Early Careers Engineering Prize. 

AWE recently welcomed colleagues from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for a visit that highlighted the very best of our people, facilities, and professional culture.

Colleagues from across AWE celebrated International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) today, recognising the contributions and impact of women across our engineering community.

Around 30 of AWE’s scientists took part in the 7th European International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) Congress in Liverpool last week, joining more than 1,100 radiation protection professionals from across the globe.

The Apprentice Excellence Awards captured a landmark moment for AWE’s Emerging Talent community, as the team recently hosted its first Apprentice Excellence Awards Evening at Wokefield Park.  

AWE is thrilled to announce that three colleagues have been recognised in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours, for their service and achievements. “I’m delighted to congratulate John Roberson OBE, Jo Walker OBE, and Stewart Booth MBE. Their dedication, expertise and service have made outstanding contributions to our nation and reflect the very best of AWE. […]

AWE has developed unique, world-leading technology to help validate the UK’s warhead stockpile. Supporting that work requires extremely rigorous testing- and at the heart of it sits Valiant, a new supercomputer that we are proud to say has now entered active service. This powerful new capability for simulation, testing and discovery significantly boosts our ability […]

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AWE has strengthened its strategic partnership with The University of Manchester, through the launch of the Actinides Centre of Excellence (ACE) – a new centre being created at the university to grow world-leading capability in actinides science and related nuclear research. 

A team of physicists, including scientists from AWE, has demonstrated for the first time a practical route to dramatically increasing the intensity of radiation achievable in the laboratory, an area of research that has enduring relevance to AWE’s mission.

This appointment recognises a distinguished career spanning military leadership, national infrastructure, and some of the UK’s most critical defence and resilience programmes.