{"id":56065,"date":"2021-11-04T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/04\/fcas-program-could-transform-spanish-defense-sector-in-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:02:24","slug":"fcas-program-could-transform-spanish-defense-sector-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/feindef\/2021\/11\/04\/fcas-program-could-transform-spanish-defense-sector-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"FCAS program could \u2018transform\u2019 Spanish defense sector in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MADRID \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2021\/05\/17\/new-trinational-deal-paves-way-for-fcas-demonstrator-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">trinational Future Combat Air System program<\/a> has ambitious plans to provide France, Germany and Spain with a plethora of new capabilities, from fighter jets and drones to sophisticated sensors and stealth technology. For Spain, it\u2019s also a tremendous opportunity to showcase its defense-industrial base on a multinational stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country formally signed onto the Franco-German program in 2019, with the objective of not only equipping its armed forces with the latest generation of weapon systems, but ensuring its own companies receive equal workshare in the program alongside their colleagues from Paris and Berlin, military officials said during the biennial FEINDEF conference in Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A key factor in Spain\u2019s decision to participate in the program was to \u201cgain capabilities\u201d and ensure more autonomy for its national industrial base, Spanish Air Force Col. Luis Villar Coloma said during a Wednesday panel at the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coloma leads the Defence Ministry\u2019s sub-directorate for planning, technology and innovation. He noted that the dual-use technologies in development for the Future Combat Air System, or FCAS \u2014 meaning they can be used in civilian and military settings \u2014 will serve as a \u201cstrategic element for national defense and for the national economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the program tiptoes into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/dsei\/2021\/09\/01\/top-defense-leaders-kick-off-new-phase-for-europes-next-gen-fighter\/\" target=\"_blank\">research and development phase<\/a> \u2014 dubbed \u201c1B\u201d and expected to start in 2022 \u2014 Spanish companies are integrated into all seven technology pillars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indra is the country\u2019s main industry partner, while Dassault represents French companies and Airbus leads Germany\u2019s industrial participation. Indra is also the prime contractor for developing new sensors as well as a partner to build the advanced combat cloud and simulation systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Airbus\u2019 Spanish subsidiary represents Madrid in the next-generation fighter pillar and is the overall leader for low-observability\/stealth technology. ITP Aero is helping develop the advanced jet engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain contributes to the remote carrier pillar via the coalition SATNUS, or Spanish Alliance of Technologies for NGWS Unmanned Systems. SATNUS, established in May, includes companies SENER Aerospacial, GMV and Tecnobit-Grupo Oesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional local companies and subsidiaries are expected to get involved in phases 1B and 2, when the demonstrators will be launched. Those phases are scheduled to run for nearly a decade, with a fighter prototype expected by 2027, and manufacturing slated to begin in 2030 to have an operational \u201csystem of systems\u201d online by 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madrid intends to ensure its industrial base retains at least one-third of the workshare throughout the program\u2019s life cycle. The Defence Ministry has drawn up an industrial and technological plan to better support its base, and spoke to more than 170 companies to frame that plan, said Spanish Army Lt. Col. Jose Manuel Chaves, who supports the ministry\u2019s defense industrial policy division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain\u2019s involvement in the program thus far has employed more than 220 people and supports companies spanning more than 75 percent of the Spanish territory, Chaves noted. That number is expected to grow as the next two phases move along, and Madrid has committed \u20ac2.5 billion (U.S. $2.9 billion) to the technology development phase, per the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For industry leaders, FCAS is a chance for the local enterprise to show the rest of Europe what it\u2019s capable of producing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is \u201ctremendous opportunity\u201d for the Spanish workforce to help create the cutting-edge technologies of the future, \u201cif we have the ambition,\u201d said Miguel Angel Morin Mart\u00edn, Airbus Spain\u2019s FCAS leader. The country boasts \u201chighly qualified engineers\u201d ready and eager to participate, even if they don\u2019t have as much experience in some technological areas as their French and German colleagues, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think FCAS may be the unique opportunity to take up the challenge and to start working,\u201d Morin Mart\u00edn added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The technologies and capabilities under development for FCAS have the potential to \u201ccompletely transform the defense sector\u201d over the next 10 years, said Indra FCAS director Manuel Rodriguez Cerezo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He acknowledged the road through such a transformation will not be easy, and said the industrial sector is not \u201cnaive\u201d about the challenges ahead. But it will be done in the \u201cbest spirit of cross-industry collaboration\u201d to make the most of national capabilities and cooperate further with France and Germany \u201cto strengthen European integration together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Industry officials expect the much-awaited R&amp;D phase to begin by early 2022. 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