After the merger, AEA continue under the leadership of Robert Bell, reporting to Martin Fausset, managing director of Ricardo UK.
In 2012, the assets acquired generated annual revenues of £39 million and delivered profit margins similar to those of the rest of the Ricardo group.
[3] AEA's profitable engineering software business was split into two and sold to Aspen Technology (Hyprotech) and Ansys (CFX).
The business is organised around a mesh style "communities" structure which includes knowledge leadership (key technical consultants), project management, IT,[6] marketing and sales.
The company's main UK operations are located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire (head office), London, Risley and Glasgow.
Significant resource was put into product development, but the market at the time was not sufficiently mature, and in 2006 Monitor-Pro was divested, followed by the former Lexware systems.
AEA Technology was fined £250,000 for transporting a 2.5 tonne 60cobalt gamma radiation source from Cookridge Hospital, Leeds to Sellafield with defective shielding on 11 March 2002.