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What We Do

Engineering capability where it is hardest to deliver

EAE works at the intersection of aerospace innovation and defence capability, building systems that have to keep working when conditions are contested, degraded or entirely unforgiving.

Core areas of focus

Four domains where our engineering is concentrated. Each supports the others — work on unmanned platforms informs our resilience engineering, and dual-use thinking keeps both commercially grounded.

Defence aviation systems

Design and engineering of advanced unmanned aircraft platforms, mission-critical components and the subsystems that give defence forces an operational edge — from airframe and payload integration through to flight software.

Secure aerospace engineering

Resilient, high-performance systems built for the most demanding defence and aerospace requirements — engineered so that degraded conditions, interference and component loss are designed for rather than discovered in service.

Dual-use technologies

Solutions engineered to serve civilian aerospace and defence applications at once. A shared technology base widens the market, shortens development cycles and keeps unit economics realistic on both sides.

Space & strategic exploration

Extending capability beyond the atmosphere — from satellite systems and space-ready subsystems to the ground infrastructure and analysis that make orbital assets useful to operators on the ground.

Engineering disciplines

Capability is delivered by teams working across four disciplines, in the same room rather than in sequence.

Aeronautical engineering

Aerodynamics, structures, flight performance and airframe design across fixed-wing, rotary and VTOL configurations.

Avionics & systems integration

Flight control, sensing, communications and the integration work that turns separate subsystems into one certified aircraft.

Propulsion & materials

Powerplant selection and integration, thermal management, and materials chosen for weight, endurance and survivability.

Digital engineering & simulation

Model-based design, simulation and analysis — so behaviour is understood before anything is committed to hardware.

How we work

Programmes are structured so that risk is retired early and evidence accumulates at every stage, rather than arriving all at once at qualification.

  1. Define the operating reality We start from the environment the system has to survive — the interference, the weather, the logistics and the people who will operate it — not from a specification written in isolation.
  2. Model before metal Behaviour is simulated and analysed first. Design decisions are made against evidence, and the expensive discoveries happen in software rather than on a test range.
  3. Prototype and instrument Hardware is built early and measured honestly. What the data shows drives the next iteration, including when it contradicts the plan.
  4. Integrate and qualify Subsystems are brought together with the integration burden understood from the start, then taken through the test and qualification the end use demands.
  5. Support in service Delivery is not the end of the engineering. Systems are supported, updated and improved against what operators actually encounter in the field.

What guides the work

Resilience by design

Systems are engineered on the assumption that conditions will degrade. Graceful behaviour under failure is a requirement, not a bonus.

European engineering sovereignty

Designed, engineered and owned in Europe, so partners retain control of the technology and the supply chain behind it.

Evidence over assertion

Claims are backed by test data. Where something is unproven we say so, because overstated capability is a liability in the field.

Tell us the problem you are trying to solve

Whether it is a platform programme, a subsystem integration or a capability gap you have not found an answer to yet, our engineering team is the right first conversation.