1. IPPC Conference
Professor Keith Hayward FRAeS
Head of Research
Royal Aeronautical Society
Dublin 13-15th May 2014
European Defence Aerospace Collaborative
Procurement – a brief History
2. European Aerospace Collaboration – a long history
CONCORDE
LYNX
PUMA
TORNADO
GAZELLE
JAGUAR
AIRBUS
EUROFIGHTER
EH101
1960
1962
1965
1967
1969
1980
1990
2000
MAJOR AIRCRAFT PROGRAMMES
(EU unless otherwise specified)
COLLABORATION=
SHARED DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT &
MANUFACTURING
AV8 B Harrier (US)
JSF F35 (US)
Approx Start Date
A400M
FIRMA (re A400M)
TRANSALL
ALPHA JET
NH 90
3. International Collaboration: Costs & Benefits
SHARED
MARKETS
SHARED
COSTSNEW
TECHNO-
LOGY
POLITICAL
INTERFERENCE
LOWER
EFFICIENCY
HIGHER
COSTS
LOSS OF
TECHNO-
LOGY
JUSTE
RETOUR
PROBLEMS
LOSS OF
AUTONOMY
POLITICAL
STABILITY
BENEFITS COSTS
POLITICAL
GOALS
INDUSTRY
POLICY
4. Things were supposed to get better
“Eurofighter will be
The last collaborative project”
John Weston, CEO BAE
A future with:
Transnational companies
+
Transnational Procurement
Agencies
5. What we got
Europe’s longest collaborative gestation
Strategic divergence of major defense industries
Hamstrung European procurement agencies
