Our expertise as a system architect draws on cutting-edge digital technologies, ranging from 3D creation to artificial intelligence. For over forty years, we have been among the pioneers in this industrial revolution, working to ensure digital continuity across all our products.
Ever since the advent of 3D modeling, we have been investing in digital innovations. Our longstanding relationship with Dassault Systèmes, our sister company, has given us access to the most advanced expertise. This close working relationship with the world leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) allows for agile incorporation of digital technologies into our manufacturing operations. These new tools improve our predictive capabilities and ensure digital continuity from design all the way through manufacturing and support, and right down to the user experience.
Our Falcon and future combat systems are all developed using Dassault Systèmes’ state‑of‑the‑art 3DExperience platform, which has replaced the PLM solutions used previously in our civil and military programs.
We use the 3DExperience platform, hosted on Dassault Systèmes’ sovereign cloud, as part of our French armed forces aircraft maintenance programs. It has opened the way to the first collaborative engineering solution that complies with national defense cybersecurity regulations. This represents a significant step towards the creation of a sovereign European cloud.
Bleu, a French company owned jointly by Capgemini and Orange, was selected in December 2025 to enable us to benefit from the solutions offered by Microsoft Azure and Office 365 in a secure environment protected by European laws.
Our digital modeling capabilities allow us to coordinate the development of complex airborne systems across all our programs. As a result, Dassault’s collaborative system engineering solutions enable multiple partners to work together on complex programs. Our platforms incorporate security and data sovereignty priorities from the very outset.
Big data helps us provide our civil and military customers with management, analysis, and decision‑making tools based on shared, supervised, and sovereign data. The digital twins of our aircraft replicate their life cycles, allowing us to engage in predictive maintenance and maximize fleet availability.
