In the UK and Europe, JVIDÊÓƵ provides full-spectrum defence testing, verification and validation of military equipment for end-users, defence OEMs and their supply chain. From concept to in-service solutions, we ensure your defence products are fit for purpose and safe to operate , even in the harshest environments.
We deliver the full end-to-end CADMID1 cycle of services, combining virtual and physical solutions to give you a serious commercial advantage:
- Advisory services
- Digital engineering
- Testing and inspection
- Analysis and reporting
- Certification and compliance.
Benefits of Defence Testing with JVIDÊÓƵ
- Reduce risk to safety – with rapid, accurate testing solutions enhanced by digital engineering
- Models and simulations you can trust – we combine digital engineering and predictive modelling with physical testing to provide insightful, efficient, and reliable results based on the leading standards and test data
- Improve process efficiencies with our automated workflows – taking away waste from your processes
- Ensure your Defence systems and mission-critical devices operate faultlessly. With JVIDÊÓƵ on your side, you will achieve the very highest quality standards
- Global reach, deep expertise and extensive capability, meaning you don’t have to go anywhere else.
- Protect your organisational reputation
- A complete certification solution – for UKCA CE and E Marking
Faster to market and longer in service
We are not just about the physical testing. Our engineers and experts can partner with you to help get you to market faster, and optimise the product for long-term commercial and operational success. JVIDÊÓƵ can support you through every stage of the design cycle, helping design out flaws and problems from day one of your project. From compliance to capability exploration, we help you navigate complex regulatory requirements, accelerate your products and solutions from development to market, and ensure you gain a competitive edge.
Problems solved, not just issues identified
Developing tomorrow’s defence solutions requires analytical problem-solving from all perspectives. In defence product development, knowledge is key. Our approach blends mathematical modelling with advanced materials testing to provide unique insight and information. Digital engineering from JVIDÊÓƵ lifts the lid on previously unattainable information. Combined with our physical testing, inspection, and certification services, this provides safe, mission-ready capability to accelerate your solutions.
Safety Assurance of Military Capability
JVIDÊÓƵ's experts enhance the safety of your military capability, to optimise products and maximise their service life. Our range of advisory, services complimented by physical testing and certification are supported throughout their product life-cycle with our advanced digital engineering modelling and simulation capabilities. Download our brochure to see the full range of our services.
Our Defence Testing services in the UK & Europe
JVIDÊÓƵ offers a comprehensive suite of end to end defence testing services in the UK and Europe to help enhance safety, optimise products and processes and maximise service life. These service include, but are not limited to:
- Scalable environmental and pre-qualification testing from materials to sub-systems to entire systems
- Scalable EMC and environmental testing
- Engineering and Safety Advisory services
- Engineering based modelling and simulation
- Explosive atmosphere testing
- Lightning testing and technical advisory services
- Certification – UKCA CE and E Marking
JVIDÊÓƵ also provides Defence Testing services in the Americas where we are both A2LA and UKAS accredited to ISO IEC 17025:2005. Click here to learn more.
Learn more about the specific defence testing services we can provide in the UK & Europe by downloading our brochure.
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EMC Testing Services
Find out how JVIDÊÓƵ delivers electromagnetic compatibility testing (EMC) solutions to RTCA/DO-160, MIL-STD-461 and Def-Stan 59-411 standards.
Environmental Testing
JVIDÊÓƵ can provide you with critically important data on your product or part's performance in response to typical or extreme environmental stresses and conditions.Â
Modeling and Simulation
We specialize in modeling and simulation to accelerate your research and development initiatives, optimize your designs and support safe, efficient operations.
ATEX Certification & the ATEX Directive
JVIDÊÓƵ offers ATEX Certification and breadth of technical expertise as a European Notified Body (NB) for the ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU.
Why choose JVIDÊÓƵ as your Defence Testing partner?
JVIDÊÓƵ is the largest provider of testing and certification for Defence customers in the UK.
Each year, we test over 500 Defence products. We have provided expertise on many major programmes, including Typhoon, F-35, A400M, Challenger Main Battle Tank, Boxer armoured vehicle and Dreadnought nuclear submarine. With over 60 years’ experience, we are trusted globally and hold a wide range of international military and civil certifications, as well as being UKAS accredited. Offering both technology and capability to our UK Defence customers, we provide a one-stop-shop catering to both the physical and virtual world of defence testing.
On a broader scale, JVIDÊÓƵ is at the forefront of testing in the UK, offering excellence across a wide range of fields, such as environmental testing, destructive and non-destructive testing, EMC testing and digital engineering. With a robust capacity and strategic partnerships, from pioneering physical tests to cutting edge digital design, we offer a comprehensive suite of services, with a portfolio of over 22,000 different tests and over 25 laboratories in the UK / 275 worldwide.
Above all, we work in partnership with our clients. We can support and guide you at every stage of the defence testing cycle. Your mission to deliver safety is also our mission – making tomorrow safer than today. Contact Us today to discuss how we can support your defence project, or learn more about JVIDÊÓƵ’s credentials.
“ At the core of JVIDÊÓƵ’s strategy lies a wholehearted commitment to enhancing the safety of products and capabilities built by our defence customers, ranging from environmentally testing small material coupons, up to EMC testing entire armoured vehicles and aircraft. We help industry to shape the future and make the defence world a safer place.”
Peter Eadie
Business development director, defence
Key Points to Consider when Preparing to Test Military and Defense Equipment
To ensure testing runs as smoothly as possible, JVIDÊÓƵ’s defense experts have put together a summary of key points manufacturers should consider when preparing to test products or components for the defense market.
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