BMT Group Ltd (previously British Maritime Technology) was established in 1985, from the merger of the UK's British Ship Research Association and National Maritime Institute, as an international multidisciplinary engineering, science and technology consultancy offering services particularly in the defence and security, critical infrastructure, commercial shipping, and environment sectors. The company's heritage goes back to WWII. BMT's head office is in London U.K. BMT specialises in maritime engineering design, design support, risk and contract management. BMT provides services focused by geography, technology and/or market sector. It employs around 1,500 professionals operating from 47 offices across four continents, with primary bases in South America, Australia, Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. In August 2017, Sarah Kenny OBE was appointed as the company's Chief Executive Officer. The company's annual turnover for the year 2019 was approx. £176m. Organisation BMT Group Ltd is a company limited by guarantee with its assets held in trust by the EBT trustees. The remit of the EBT is to ensure the long-term sustainability of the group with the employees as beneficiaries. The EBT trustees are chaired by Wendy Barnes and include other non-executive directors from the board of BMT Group Ltd and a wholly independent external trustee. History Originally formed from the merger and privatisation of the UK’s British Shipbuilders Research Association (BSRA) and the National Maritime Institute (NMI), engineering group BMT enjoyed tax-free status as a scientific research association for more than a decade. BMT's heritage includes the water tanks where the famous 'bouncing bomb' was developed during WWII as well as more recent advances in computer-aided design and aerodynamics. Notable projects BMT gained prominence in 2003 when the Secretary of State for Defence revealed the crucial role of BMT Defence Services in the design of the Future Aircraft Carriers. The company provided much of the design expertise within the Thales CVF Team, whose design was taken forward into the alliance with BAE Systems. Another project is the conversion of the UK MoD's Trials Platform Longbow to perform Sea trials on the PAAMS missile system to be fitted to the UK's Type 45 destroyers. As well as these, BMT is a member of Team 31, the winning team selected to design and build the UK’s new Type 31 frigates for the Royal Navy. Team 31 is a fully integrated project team comprising Babcock, Thales, Odense Maritime Technology and BMT. They are the world’s leading independent experts in