September 2022

Its rare to be able to talk about any of our projects at Contract Innovation but to be able to showcase our multispeed EDU, traction control, stability control, active steering, and active suspension control software all on one vehicle is a real highlight. Thanks to all the team at Dstl, QinetiQ and UK Army for all the great work on this project. We look forward to working with you to support our armed forces and allies for many years to come.



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October 2021

We are pleased to announce that Dr Mark Tucker recently joined the engineering team at Contract Innovation. Mark has extensive experience delivering control solutions across the marine, aerospace and automotive sectors having previously held roles including Group Leader for ADAS and Autonomous Driving at TMETC and Technology Group Leader for Sensor Fusion and Control at TRW Conekt.

Mark joins our technical team as we continue to break down technological boundaries and produce world leading control systems for the future powertrain and chassis control systems. This is essential if the world is to successfully complete the transition to a sustainable and resilient future without compromise.

September 2021

DSEI sees the launch of a Dstl project consortium led by Qinetiq, featuring Contract Innovation as a major partner exploring the performance of UK Future Ground Combat Vehicles.

Contract Innovation are leading the field in the design and development of mobility enhancing control systems. Come and speak with our engineering team on stand H7-502 who will discuss the novel systems we applied to this exciting and ground-breaking project.

September 2021

Contract Innovation are pleased to welcome customers new and existing to our stand H7-502 at DSEI 14th to 17th September where we will be showcasing our latest mobility enhancing control and simulation technology.

Come and chat with Andrew Harrison, Dr Nick Rivara and Dr Sam Fraser from our Control and Digital Engineering teams about how Contract Innovation can accelerate your powertrain electrification and advanced chassis control development programmes.

 Stand H7-502 – We look forward to seeing you!

September 2021

Today is our fantastic intern Colin Kessler’s last day with Contract Innovation before heading back to university.

Colin’s work expanding our Unreal Engine based synthetic test environment to support Driver-in-the-Loop testing of large and off-highway vehicles is already generating significant customer interest and provides an excellent facility for further enhancing the performance and robustness of our advanced driveline and active suspension control software platforms.

We have been hugely impressed with Colin’s work ethic and professionalism throughout his time with us and wish him every success with the next stage of his studies.

The WMG Internship Programme was instrumental in placing Colin with us and we look forward to working with them in future.

October 2020

Innovate UK Funding

Contract Innovation are excited to announce that, working with our project partners Involution Technologies, we have secured funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency within the ‘Catalysing Green Innovation: strand 2: Securing the future of ZEV’ competition.

Involution are developing an electric drive train to be fitted into the largest HGV’s enabling full electric, zero emissions operation. The Invo-CVT is targeted to be retro fitted into the existing vehicles and to be cost competitive against diesel powertrains on new HGV’s.

Contract Innovation will deploy our proprietary library of eDrive control software and our extensive vehicle and component level simulation capabilities to complete both performance prediction and dog clutch shift optimisation activities required to demonstrate the ability of the novel powertrain layout to match and exceed the attributes of direct drive competitors.

We are very much looking forward to collaborating with Involution Technologies and to the successful outcome of the project.

July 2020

JOSCAR Accreditation

We are pleased to announce that we have obtained full registration on the Joint Supply Chain Accreditation Register (JOSCAR).

JOSCAR is a collaborative tool used by the aerospace, defence and security industry to act as a single repository for pre-qualification and compliance information.

Being part of JOSCAR is hugely important to Contract Innovation as it displays the level of commitment we place in delivering the highest quality and standards to our customers.

June 2020

Team Expansion

Please join us in welcoming Dr Sam Fraser to the Contract Innovation Team.

In this newly created role Sam will be leading simulation activity across our business and defining our future simulation strategy as we plan the next phase of the business growth and expansion.

Sam joins us from Drive System Design where he was responsible for 1D and multibody simulation activity within their Control Systems team including high fidelity geometry optimization and real time driver and hardware in the loop test rig implementation. Sam also holds a PhD in CAE from Loughborough University and a Masters degree (1^st class) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield.

November 2019

New Team Member

Today we are proud to announce that Duncan Hennion has joined our expanding team at Contract Innovation.

Duncan joins us after a long spell at McLaren Automotive where he was instrumental in the development of the powertrain control systems for their highly successful range of hybrid and DCT equipped sportscars.

Contract Innovation are continually expanding the depth and breadth of our capabilities in automotive control system design. Could we be the next step in your career too?

If you have a strong technical background and the ability to perform at the highest level then why not get in touch to discuss how you could fit in our growing team.

Welcome Duncan!