This week, the entire aerospace and defense industry will be here in Farnborough. So the question that cuts across every conversation happening on the stands: how do you leverage knowledge and know-how? The judgment behind decades of design decisions, the knowledge that made programs work and that too often leaves when the engineers who built them do.<\/p>\n
That is the challenge Dassault Syst\u00e8mes<\/a> comes to Farnborough 2026 to address. And the proposition is straightforward: Reveal the Invisible.<\/p>\n What is actually at stake<\/p>\n The most valuable thing an aerospace organisation owns is rarely the one that shows up on a balance sheet. It is the reasoning behind decisions: why a specific alloy was selected for a spar attachment, why a system architecture was built the way it was, which load case forced a full redesign twenty years ago and why. <\/p>\n That knowledge took generations of engineers to build. And in most organisations today, it lives in their heads, not in any system their successors can access.<\/p>\n That is the knowledge retirement crisis, and it is accelerating. What remains is data without context: records that tell you what was decided, but not why.<\/p>\n Dassault Syst\u00e8mes\u2019 answer is 3D UNIV+RSES: digital environments where that knowledge is captured, structured, and made reusable across programs, across organisations, and across generations of engineers. Knowledge that accumulates rather than retires.<\/p>\n Five themes, five real industry pressures<\/p>\n Dassault Syst\u00e8mes structures its week around five themes. Each one maps directly to a challenge the industry is already navigating.<\/p>\n Sovereignty. Where data lives, who processes it, and under which legal framework: these are now program-level requirements. Dassault Syst\u00e8mes demonstrates how sovereign deployment works in practice: data residency within national boundaries, zero-trust architecture, and full compliance with frameworks including FedRAMP and SecNumCloud.<\/p>\n