Leonardo S.p.A.

Leonardo S.p.A. is an Italian multinational company specializing in aerospace, defense, and security industries. The company is headquartered in Rome, Italy. It operates in various sectors, including aerospace engineering, aircraft industry, defense industry, spaceflight, and synthetic-aperture radar. Leonardo is also involved in the development of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) technologies and precision-guided munition.

The company was founded in 1948 and is currently led by CEO Alessandro Profumo. Leonardo is a public company and is listed on the Borsa Italiana stock exchange. The company has a workforce of 49,882 employees.

Leonardo has several subsidiaries, including Thales Alenia Space, MBDA, SELEX Sistemi Integrati, Alenia Aermacchi, ATR (aircraft manufacturer), Aermacchi, Hitachi Rail Italy, Selex Galileo, Inc., Leonardo DRS, Telespazio, Hensoldt, and Vitrociset.

The company is owned by several parent organizations, including the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale, Investor, Institutional investor, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy).

Leonardo is also the owner of several companies, such as ATR (aircraft manufacturer), Avio, Thales Alenia Space, PZL-Świdnik, and Hensoldt.

The company is involved in various industries, including technology, robotics, oceanography, autonomous vehicles, network security, information security, arms industry, and aerospace engineering.

Leonardo utilizes technologies such as unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and has been assigned 40 patents.

The company's official website can be found at http://leonardocompany.com and https://leonardocompany.com/en/home. Leonardo is active on social media platforms, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Leonardo S.p.A., formerly Leonardo-Finmeccanica and originally Finmeccanica, is an Italian multinational company specialising in aerospace, defence and security. Headquartered in Rome, Italy, the company has 180 sites worldwide. It is the eighth largest defence contractor in the world based on 2018 revenues. The company is partially owned by the Italian government, which holds 30.2% of the company's shares and is its largest shareholder.

On 1 January 2016, Leonardo-Finmeccanica became a single industrial company by integrating the activities of its subsidiaries AgustaWestland, Alenia Aermacchi, DRS Technologies, Selex ES, Oto Melara and WASS. The company is organised into five divisions (Helicopters, Aircraft, Aerostructures, Electronics, Cybersecurity). It is also the parent company and corporate centre for the subsidiaries and joint ventures Telespazio, Thales Alenia Space, MBDA and ATR. Leonardo is listed on the Borsa Italiana and is a constituent of the FTSE MIB and Dow Jones Sustainability Indices.

As of April 2016, the company was known by the transitional name of Leonardo-Finmeccanica as part of the restructuring process of the company carried out by CEO Mauro Moretti from the beginning of his mandate in 2014. The company changed its name to Leonardo S.p.A. on 1 January 2017, after the Italian inventor Leonardo da Vinci.