Aerospace & Defense

Bridge the gap between the virtual and real world to accelerate from concept to operations.

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World Models + True Innovation

3D UNIV+RSES powered by industrial AI ensure the A&D ecosystem reveal the invisible and transform knowledge into a lasting strategic advantage.

Since 1981 Dassault Systèmes has transformed the world with 3D. Today, in the context of Artificial Intelligence, Dassault Systèmes is once again enhancing how we represent our world with its new generation of experiences. Through 3D UNIVERSES, we create a new scientific space of our environment by connecting multiple virtual twins - offering a unique environment to imagine, create and produce generative experiences to foster Sustainable Innovation.

In the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) Industry, our Generative Experiences demonstrate how to manage the ever-growing complexity of sophisticated products, accelerate decarbonization and production ramp-up by leveraging the knowledge and know-how of our customers and empower the workforce of the future with Virtual Companions, while keeping costs down, supply chain disruptions under control, and IP protected.

The 3D UNIVERSES offer clear visibility of what needs to be done today to build tomorrow.

Serving the Needs of All Stakeholders Across the Aerospace & Defense Value Chain

Dassault Systèmes has a proven track record as a catalyst and enabler of the world's leading industrial transformations. Every decade, we have partnered with manufacturers to disrupt how products are designed, manufactured and sustained, and we continue to rethink development, production and support processes and methods.

Commercial Aviation

Commercial aviation connects people across continents and cultures. At Dassault Systèmes (3DS), we play a crucial role in shaping the industry by leveraging advanced technologies and collaborations across the market.

Aerospace & Defense Suppliers

Shifting demands in aerospace and defense requires new supplier strategies to deliver on time, on target and on cost.

Space

Accelerate space companies' ability to design a system right the first time with the required quality, reliability and safety at lower cost.

Defense

Trusted digital engineering for mission readiness, industrial resilience, and sovereign collaboration.

Aerospace Propulsion

Accelerate engine programs to meet record demand while cutting costs.

Airports

Meet infrastructure requirements and delight air travelers.

Airlines

Optimize your operations and provide an outstanding airline experience to your customers.

New skills for Aerospace engineering: From Challenge to Change

Learn more about how we tackle skills gap challenges and foster relationships between our academic and industrial customers to build the aerospace workforce of the future.

3D UNIVERSES combine modeling, simulation, real-world evidence and AI-generated content to empower our customers through the premier knowledge and know-how platform – the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. By enabling the creation of the Virtual Twins of everything for everyone - harnessing the power of AI-enabled generative experiences using data from both Virtual + Real worlds - Dassault Systèmes is, more than ever, a catalyst of the industry renaissance.

Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE® platform delivers the capabilities to accelerate sustainable innovation with the power of the virtual twin as the only truly integrated, open and model-based data environment:

  • From carbon-heavy aviation to environmental stewardship using electrification or hydrogen
  • From traditional space to new space, optimizing manufacturing and in-space activities
  • From conventional supply chain management systems to data-driven quality management
  • Combined with constant upskilling of the workforce to retain and attract talent

Explore the various programs below to get a better understanding of this new era of 3D UNIVERSES; what we’re offering to our customers is not just about technology:

  • It’s about supporting the industry workforce, enhancing the way we address their challenges
  • It’s about being connected to creators, designers, and engineers on their everyday challenges
  • It’s about providing them new ways to bring an aircraft to the sky.

Addressing the Business Challenges of the Aerospace & Defense Industry

Prospects for A&D companies appear bright with the continued growth of commercial aviation and the upturn of defense and military spending and increased budget towards security.

Drive Costs Down

Accelerate program maturity from concept to manufacturing while driving out 40 to 60% of costs.

Transforming the Supply Chain in the Value Network

Drive integration to improve visibility, on-time delivery and first-time quality.

A&D companies can unlock sustainable growth and operational excellence by embracing the 3D UNIVERSES and addressing the accelerating challenges of research and innovation, increasing system complexity, industrial performance, and lifecycle value creation.

  • With the Virtual Twins of everything for everyone, we provide a new representation of the world you are building, connecting research, design, engineering, manufacturing and in-service operations within a single trusted environment. This continuity enables teams to Innovate for Sustainability With Industrial AI, manage complexity with confidence and accelerate from concept to operation.
  • With sense computing, you can step inside this world and experience it. In a world where intellectual property is the new currency, A&D teams can validate architectures earlier, simulate manufacturing and operational scenarios, and anticipate service performance before assets enter production or service.
  • AI-powered Generative Experiences help accelerate the journey from research to design and from engineering to operation. They transform complexity into actionable insight, enabling faster development cycles, improved performance trade-offs and more sustainable innovation.
  • Throughout this journey, Virtual Companions empower your teams across engineering, shopfloor, operations and aftersales. Acting as intelligent extensions of their expertise, they support better decisions, enhance industrial efficiency, strengthen fleet availability and reinforce long-term customer relationships.

Together, these pillars elevate the 3DEXPERIENCE platform into a true Knowledge and Know-How Platform, forming the foundation for the future of Aerospace and Defense and positioning us as trusted protectors of your intellectual property.

Explore Our Recent Customer Stories

Our customers tell their story the best! Industry leaders from A&D OEMs, suppliers, disruptive new players, share their experience as this is the most important source of information to us and other companies. Read these A&D stories to see how the 3DUNIV+RSES pillars come to life and empower you to tackle your current challenges, in today’s context!

Dassault Aviation

French aerospace company Dassault Aviation leverages the 3DEXPERIENCE platform powered by the NETVIBES data science portfolio to maximize fleet availability.

Beyond Aero

Creating the world’s first electric business aircraft designed for hydrogen propulsion, Beyond Aero built a new architecture to optimize the integration of the hydrogen tanks and fuel cell systems using the Reinvent the Sky industry solution experience. Combining design, simulation and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud accelerated development, helping to master complexity and maintain full traceability throughout the product lifecycle. Through a simplified virtual twin, Beyond Aero has successfully tested, validated and flown its 85kW scale propulsion system.

Boom Supersonic

Boom Supersonic is designing and manufacturing Overture, the world’s fastest airliner optimized for speed, safety and sustainability. The company chose the industry experience solutions Cleared to Operate, Co-Design to Target, Program Excellence, and Winning Concept. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform acts as a collaborative environment in which true parametric modeling takes place at a system level.

HeliAir

Austrian HeliAir transforms standard helicopters into medical emergency centers using the self-developed interior concept KOKON designed on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud. With the Passenger Experience industry solution experience, the company can manage the entire development process, use virtual reality to create immersive demonstrations and involve healthcare professionals in decision-making processes.

Ascendance Flight Technologies

Focused on clean and sustainable aviation, the French startup needed an industry platform to support and accelerate the development of Atea, a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft equipped with a hybrid electric propulsion system, Sterna. To bring its hybrid eVTOL technology to market, the company is using the cloud-based solution Reinvent the Sky on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to manage systems engineering, product design and governance.

Spirit AeroSystems

Spirit AeroSystems, a manufacturer of aerostructures, enhances production quality with Dassault Systèmes’ Build to Operate and Ready for Rate industry solution experiences, including the DELMIA and CATIA applications. 

Vertical Aerospace

Vertical Aerospace is building its revolutionary electric aircraft and defining its processes on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the Cloud with the Reinvent the Sky industry solution experience. This gives the company access to enterprise-level design, engineering and simulation software in a single, secure, standards-based environment.

Finnair

To ensure smooth and efficient operations, Finnair uses DELMIA Quintiq to plan its ground operations workforce.

National Institute for Aviation Research

Supported by the Keep Them Operating industry solution experience on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, NIAR will take the B-1 Lancer aircraft completely apart, scan every single structural element and digitally reassemble the aircraft to create virtual twins for future sustainment activities. The platform serves as the hub for visualizing, analyzing and predicting the aircrafts’ performance.

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Trends in the Aerospace & Defense Industry

In order to fully understand the latest trends in the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) Industry, the following selection of articles, data and reports below will enable you to deep dive in the A&D sector.