Mr. Keith Rigby CEng FIET

Principal Technologist - Weapons Integration, Future Combat Air Systems BAE Systems

Keith A. Rigby CEng FIET is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology with over 35 years’ experience of integrating complex weapons with platforms, primarily in the air domain.  He is currently the Platform Integration Consultant - LDEW for the BAE Systems’ Laser Directed Energy Weapons programme; an activity aimed at developing a total integration capability across the land, sea and air domains.  Keith is the author of the weapons integration chapter in the ‘Encyclopaedia of Aerospace Engineering’ and the sole author of the textbook ‘Aircraft Systems Integration of Air-Launched Weapons’ both published by Wiley.  He is also a BAE Systems Global Engineering Fellow.