Dr. Richard Drake

Managing Director - Mission Systems, Babcock International Group PLC

Dr. Richard Drake is the Managing Director - Mission Systems at Babcock International Group. Before, he was the Head of Department - Landing Gear Extension Retraction Systems at Airbus. Richard also worked as Principal Consultant at Weir Strachan & Henshaw. He completed his masters University of Bath and bachelors from University of Leicester.

News mentions

Babcock International Group awarded Skysiren contract extension

Babcock has been awarded a 12-month contract extension to continue its support of Skysiren, the UK’s implementation of the US defence Integrated Broadcast Service. Skysiren is part of a UK Fi...

Babcock is proud to partner with Formula Student and UAS 2023

Babcock is proud to be supporting one of the biggest student engineering events in Europe – Formula Student (FS) 2023. They’ll be joining hundreds of students at the kick-off event, Learn...

Babcock awarded maritime communications electronic support measures contract

Babcock International Group, the defence company, has been awarded the contract to deliver, install and provide in-service support for Ardent Wolf, the maritime Communications Electronic Support Measu...

Babcock International appointed new Chief Technology Officer

Babcock is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Richard Drake as Babcock’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He will take up his new role on 1 July 2022, succeeding Dr. Jon Hall who will b...