Defense and Aerospace

Meeting the challenges of performance and strategic autonomy in an industry undergoing profound change

The Aeronautics, Space & Defense industry is facing a number of challenges, from ramping up production to technological breakthroughs, from resilience in the face of geopolitical tensions to responding to issues of sovereignty.

For more than 40 years, our specialized teams have been helping all players in the sector with their major transformations, at the crossroads of strategic, operational and human issues.

What we do for you

With recognized expertise across the entire value chain, we support the defense and aeronautics sector by ensuring a continuum between the public and private sectors, working with government ministries and operators, leading manufacturers, SMEs in the sector and the DTIB, as well as investment funds.

Informing the strategic choices of an industry undergoing profound change
  • Anticipate technological breakthroughs and sector reconfigurations through forward-looking analyses and capability studies.
  • To shed light on the aerospace and defense market and help define offers adapted to its specific features. 
  • Structuring project incubation programs and innovation laboratories. 
  • Carry out due diligence and support M&A operations across the value chain and in the sector's critical sectors.
Accelerate the digital and technological transformation of industry players
  • Define digital transformation strategies, integrating issues of sovereignty, interoperability and cybersecurity.
  • Define and steer data & AI strategy and governance for operational superiority.
  • Accompany the acculturation and skills enhancement of business units in technological areas (data, AI, architecture, benchmarking of state-of-the-art solutions, etc.).
  • Support the development of digital projects and the urbanization of the IT ecosystem.
Managing and implementing major aerospace and defense programs
  • Frame and structure complex, high-stakes, multi-stakeholder programs. 
  • Deploy agile, SAFe or hybrid frameworks that enable rapid, controlled integration of technological innovations. 
  • Project management and operational management within industrial ecosystems.
  • Federating and coordinating industrial, institutional and scientific partnerships around common objectives.
Securing ramp-up and guaranteeing resilience
  • Optimize industrial performance and equipment availability (MCO/MRO) through lean approaches.
  • Strengthen control of critical supply chains and resilience against the risk of supply disruptions.
  • Integrate the levers of Industry 4.0 to make production more reliable, improve traceability of operations and support the ramp-up of production and assembly lines. 
  • Deploy operational excellence models adapted to the challenges of quality, airworthiness, cost, lead time and safety.
Supporting HR and organizational transformations
  • Define new organizational models to meet the challenges of the sector's transformation. 
  • Support HR transformations and secure forward-looking management of critical jobs and skills. 
  • Supporting transformation dynamics through new approaches to mobilization and change management.
  • Strengthen attractiveness and loyalty in a context of high tension in critical professions.
Driving the transition to a sustainable and responsible aerospace and defense industry
  • Reduce the carbon and environmental footprint of industrial and logistics operations.
  • Shift business models towards more sober, circular and responsible approaches (eco-design by design). 
  • Integrate CSR, CSRD and ESG guidelines into industry governance and strategy.
  • Promoting diversity, inclusion and ethics as levers for sustainable performance.

What we've accomplished together

Each mission is different, but they all have one thing in common: sustainable impact. Here are a few examples of our work with key players in the sector:

Defense and Aerospace
We carried out an analysis of the strategic plan and the company, then helped define and prepare for the implementation of the new organization.

Our view of the sector

Our job is also to reflect, decipher and share. Here you'll find our analyses, our convictions and our short formats.

Meet our experts
Defense and Aerospace

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