Dassault Aviation: Europe’s Future Combat Air System: on the way to the first flight
December 16 2022 - 7:06AM
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, Munich, Madrid, 16
December 2022 – On behalf of the governments of France, Germany and
Spain, the French General Directorate for Armament (DGA) has
awarded to Dassault Aviation, Airbus, Indra, EUMET and their
industrial partners the contract for the Demonstrator Phase 1B of
the Future Combat Air System (FCAS). This landmark contract,
amounting to € 3.2 billion, will cover work on the FCAS
demonstrator and its components for about three and a half
years.
Dassault Aviation, Airbus, Indra and EUMET
welcome this major step forward that reflects the determination of
France, Germany and Spain to develop a powerful, innovative and
fully European weapon system to meet the operational needs of the
countries’ armed forces.
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, Dassault Aviation and Indra act as national coordinators to
ensure the overall coherence of the demonstrators and the overall
programme’s steering and work consolidation.
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 for France as
prime contractor, and Airbus as main partner for Germany and
Spain
- New
Generation Fighter Engine with the 50/50 Joint-Venture EUMET -
between Safran Aircraft Engines for France and MTU Aero Engines for
Germany - as prime contractor and ITP for Spain as main
partner
- Unmanned
systems, Remote Carrier (RC) with Airbus for Germany as prime
contractor, MBDA for France and Satnus for Spain as main
partners
- Combat Cloud
(CC) with Airbus for Germany as prime contractor, Thales for France
and Indra Sistemas for Spain 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 for France and FCMS
for Germany as main partners
- Enhanced Low
Observability (stealth) with Airbus as prime contractor for Spain,
Dassault Aviation for France and Airbus for Germany 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 Europe's
strategic autonomy thanks to the reinforcement of the operational,
technological and industrial sovereignty of its defence.
Contacts for the media
Martin Agüera
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
Nathalie Bakhos Dassaut
Aviation +33 (0)1 47 11 92 75
Nathalie-Beatrice.Bakhos@dassaultaviation.com
Sergio Sánchez
Benítez Indra Sistemas +34 630515876
ssbenitez@indra.es
Charles Soret Safran Aircraft
Engines+33631609679charles.soret@safrangroup.com
Markus Wölfle MTU Aero
Engines +4915117415084markus.woelfle@mtu.de
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