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Dassault: 'We’ll Build Our Own Cloud'

Dassault Aviation and Dassault Systèmes will collaborate on a sovereign cloud for Europe that will have particular relevance to defense projects.

Eric Trappier and Bernard Charle — Eric Trappier (left) and Bernard Charles, the presidents and chief executive officers of Dassault Aviation and Dassault Systèmes, respectively, explain their work on a secure cloud system at a Paris Airshow press conference. (Photo: Chris Pocock)

By Chris Pocock • Defense Correspondent

June 20, 2023

The Dassault Group is developing a secure cloud system for defense applications such as the pan-European Next Generation Fighter (NGF) and the wider Future Combat Air System (FCAS). The secure distributed computer server collection is billed as a sovereign system for Europe and will build on the 3D Experience platform created by Dassault Systèmes.

But although the applications will stretch well beyond defense into commerce, industry, and public services, many will view the move as another challenge to Airbus on the FCAS project. After protracted negotiations last year, Dassault Aviation won confirmation as design leader for the NGF. But Airbus retained responsibility for connecting this sixth-generation fighter with other platforms suggested for the FCAS, such as drones, via a “combat cloud."

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