Europe’s Future Combat Air System: on the way to the first flight
- Industry awarded € 3.2 bn by
France ,Germany ,Spain - FCAS Phase 1B Contract for R&T and flying Demonstrators Global Design
@AirbusDefence @dassault_onair @IndraCompany @EumetE
Saint-Cloud,
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,
Dassault Aviation and Indra Sistemas as co-contracting partners - New Generation Fighter (NGF), with
Dassault Aviation forFrance as prime contractor, and Airbus as main partner forGermany andSpain - New Generation Fighter Engine with the 50/50 Joint-Venture EUMET - between
Safran Aircraft Engines forFrance and MTU Aero Engines forGermany - as prime contractor and ITP forSpain as main partner - Unmanned systems, Remote Carrier (RC) with Airbus for
Germany as prime contractor,MBDA forFrance and Satnus forSpain as main partners - Combat Cloud (CC) with Airbus for
Germany as prime contractor, Thales forFrance and Indra Sistemas forSpain as main partners - Simulation with Airbus,
Dassault Aviation and Indra Sistemas as co-contracting partners - Sensors with Indra Sistemas as prime for
Spain , and Thales forFrance and FCMS forGermany as main partners - Enhanced Low Observability (stealth) with Airbus as prime contractor for
Spain ,Dassault Aviation forFrance and Airbus forGermany as main partners - Common Working Environment with Airbus,
Dassault Aviation , Indra Sistemas and EUMET as co-contracting partners
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
Contacts for the media
Airbus Defence and Space +49 175 2274369 martin.aguera@airbus.com
Bruno Daffix
Airbus Defence and Space +33 (0)6 48 09 96 50 bruno.b.daffix@airbus.com
José Gascó
Airbus Defence and Space +34 692 870 224 jose.gasco@airbus.com
+33 (0)1 47 11 92 75
Nathalie-Beatrice.Bakhos@dassaultaviation.com
Sergio
Indra Sistemas
+34 630515876
ssbenitez@indra.es
Charles Soret
+33631609679
charles.soret@safrangroup.com
Markus Wölfle
MTU Aero Engines
+4915117415084
markus.woelfle@mtu.de
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- EN-Press-Release-FCAS-DemoPhase-1B contract v6
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