This landmark contract, amounting to
This contract notification comes on the heels of the signature of the industrial agreements supporting the demonstrator Phase 1B by Airbus, Dassault Aviation Indra and EUMET as prime contractors of the programme and by their industrial partners from the three nations. Discussions held over the last months have enabled the creation of a solid basis for cooperation between industry and the three governments.
This continues the successful Phase 1A demonstrators' related R&T work and development activities, which enabled the identification of key technologies and the launch of the demonstrators' developments. Paving the way for the development phase of the programme, this demonstration phase 1B will allow continuation of flying demonstrators and required cutting-edge technologies development and maturation as well as project architectures consolidation, with in-flight demonstrations targeted in the next phases by 2028-2029.
The programme is made up of a set of systems: New Generation Fighters teaming with Remote Carriers and connected through a Combat Cloud. In order to meet the ambitions and challenges of such a programme, an adapted and efficient industrial organisation has been set-up and built around technological pillars. Each pillar is under the leadership of an industrial champion acting as prime, working in close cooperation with its main partners and leveraging each nation's aeronautical industrial ecosystems.
In addition to their prime role per pillar, Airbus,
The industrial governance of the Phase 1B is organised per domain as follows
NGWS Consistency, Demonstrations and Consolidation with Airbus,
New Generation Fighter (NGF), with
New Generation Fighter Engine with the 50/50 Joint-Venture EUMET - between
Unmanned systems, Remote Carrier (RC) with Airbus for
Combat Cloud (CC) with Airbus for
Simulation with Airbus,
Sensors with
Enhanced Low Observability (stealth) with Airbus as prime contractor for
Common Working Environment with Airbus,
The industrial partners thank the three nations for their confidence and reiterate their firm commitment and total mobilisation to make this programme the armed wing of
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