Saint Cloud, France, March 7, 2014 - Recently at a ceremony held in Washington DC by the well-known defence and aeronautics magazine Aviation Week,
Dassault Aviation and the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA –
Direction générale de l’armement ) were announced winner of the Laureate Awards, for the nEUROn programme, Europe’s unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV).
This price, that honors the values and visions of the global
aerospace and defence industry, salutes the technological challenges
performed and the innovative industrial solutions designed to develop
the first large size stealth platform made in Europe, the nEUROn
technological demonstrator.
Initiated by the French government in 2003 through the French Defence
Procurement Agency with Dassault Aviation as prime contractor, the aim
of the programme was to demonstrate the maturity and the effectiveness
of technical solutions to face the main challenges of the future combat
aircraft industry for the next twenty years.
The need to develop strategic technologies, the necessity to uphold
advanced skills in areas in which the French industry has gained
technical competences and fields of excellence, and the goal to provide
workload to the design offices have led the nEUROn programme to be one
of the most important for the defence sector.
The success of the nEUROn maiden flight, the 1st December
2012, validates the capability of the French industry to prepare the
future of manned or unmanned combat aircraft systems.
It also illustrates the will of the French Authorities to be a major
actor to the build-up of the future of defence, and the strategic
commitment of Dassault Aviation to design and develop the best
technologies to propose the outmost innovative operational solutions.
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