Europe’s
Future Combat Air System: on the way to the first flight
• Industry awarded € 3.2 bn by
France, Germany and 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
·
NGF 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 Aero 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.
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