Civil and Defence aerospace sector: Rising to new challenges
The Civil and Defence aerospace sector is thriving, driven by growing demand for air travel, advanced security solutions, and cutting-edge innovations. This includes emerging trends like drones and the need for collaboration where multiple stakeholders—such as manufacturers, suppliers, and governments—work together to design and build modern aircraft. As the industry evolves, it faces complex challenges that demand a careful balance between immediate priorities and long-term goals.
Short-Term Challenges
- Supply Chain Disruption: Geopolitical tensions are creating supply chain disruptions, posing significant challenges for manufacturers.
- Capacity Constraints: Talent shortages and underinvestment have led to capacity limitations.
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Safety and Security: Ensuring the safety and security against increased global threats remains a priority.
Long-Term Challenges
- Environmental Pressure: Reducing carbon emissions in response to public demand requires significant investment, innovation, and regulatory compliance.
- Technological Advancement: Keeping pace with rapid technological change is essential to maintain relevance and competitiveness.
In this dynamic landscape, Sopra Steria works alongside leading aerospace companies across the UK to enhance operational efficiency, enable seamless security collaboration, and strengthen competitiveness through innovative digital solutions. We are committed to supporting our clients' most critical business functions, fostering sustainable growth and long-term resilience in the sector.
Our capabilities
Sopra Steria delivers customised, end-to-end solutions for corporate, engineering, manufacturing, and aviation traffic management teams, powered by advanced digital tools and assets.
Engineering
Our team offers high-quality, relevant engineering services to the aerospace industry, including aided design and design to cost.
Manufacturing
We leverage global digital expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud, digital twin, IoT, product lifecycle management and robotics to streamline the manufacturing process.
Customer service
We help OEMs to improve the availability and operability of aircraft and reduce cost, through innovative maintenance systems. Interactions with the supply chain are safe in our hands, thanks to our secure collaboration credentials.
Global Delivery Network
Our global delivery network includes service centres in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and India, which meet response and cost requirements and satisfy safety obligations. This industrialisation allows for extensive flexibility in adapting to required
changes in load plans, reducing cost and improving the quality of service to the satisfaction of business lines.
We have reached such a level of quality that whether the development is carried out in Toulouse or Noida, the difference is imperceptible.
Airbus Group
Horizontal Approach
We leverage our knowledge of other sectors to innovate in aerospace, having delivered services such as secure cloud transformation, service design, smart application modernisation, data analytics, cyber security, legacy system modernisation, data translation, digital workplace and unified communications and industry 4.0 in other highly-regulated, technology-driven environments.