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Defense & Aerospace Companies, Volume II - International Airbus Group Outlook · In March 2015, Airbus Group initiated a second divestment of its shares in Dassault Aviation · Airbus Group is riding the boom in the commercial aircraft market that has fueled a record backlog of EUR857 billion · Airbus D&S is being restructured via mergers and divestments; some 5,000 jobs will be eliminated, primarily in Europe · The company has consolidated its focus in India in hopes of winning upcoming contracts Headquarters Airbus Group SE In mid-2013, following a failed merger attempt with 4, rue du Groupe d'Or BAE Systems, EADS's ownership structure was BP 90112 drastically altered as shareholders changed a Franco- 31703 – Blagnac Cedex, France German ownership pact in favor of greater management Telephone: + 33 0 5 81 31 75 00 freedom. Under the plan, France and Germany now Website: http://www.airbus-group.com hold core stakes of 12 percent each, Spain holds 4 percent, and the rest is floated freely to investors. In 2014, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Prior to the changes, the triumvirate of nations held over Company (EADS) rebranded itself as Airbus Group, 50 percent of the firm. As part of the changes, France after its largest operation. agreed to give up veto powers over the company's Originally, EADS was formed through Europe's post- industrial policy. Cold War consolidation efforts. At the time of its At the start of 2015, Airbus Group employed about formation in 2000, EADS comprised the activities of the 138,622 people around the world. founding partners Aerospatiale Matra SA of France, Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) of Spain, and Note: For details on Airbus Group's major subsidiaries, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) of Germany. please refer to the separate Airbus and Airbus This triumvirate has had a long and successful history in Helicopters reports in this service. the world's aerospace and defense industry, particularly through the Airbus consortium, of which all three were members. Structure and Personnel Tom Enders Fabrice Brégier Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer, Airbus François Auque Tom Williams Executive Vice President, Space Systems, Chief Operating Officer, Airbus Airbus Defence and Space Guillaume Faury Thierry Baril Chief Executive Officer, Airbus Helicopters Chief Human Resources Officer, Bernhard Gerwert Airbus Group and Airbus Chief Executive Officer, Airbus Defence and Space Jean Botti Chief Technical Officer, Airbus Group ©2015 November 2015 Page 2 Defense & Aerospace Companies, Volume II - International Airbus Group Marwan Lahoud Harald Wilhelm Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Airbus Group and Airbus Airbus Group Klaus Richter John Leahy Chief Procurement Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Customers, Airbus Airbus Group and Airbus Allan McArtor John Harrison Chief Executive Officer, Group General Counsel Airbus Group North America Fernando Alonso Head, Military Aircraft, Airbus Defence and Space Product Area Airbus Group is considered one of the top two Stelia Aerospace. This unit was formed in 2015 with manufacturers of commercial aircraft, civil helicopters, the merger of Airbus subsidiaries Aerolia and Sogmera. commercial space launchers, and missiles in terms of The company produces aerostructures, nose fuselage worldwide market share. The group is also a leading subassemblies, and provides cabin outfitting including supplier of military aircraft, satellites, and defense cockpit and passenger seating. electronics. The company is believed to manage its Airbus Helicopters. Formerly known as Eurocopter, operations as follows: this segment produces helicopters, including the 1. Airbus EC 120, EC 135, EC 225, EC 725, NH90, and Tiger. 1.1 Premium Aerotec EADS North America and Airbus Helicopters Inc have 1.2 Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (EFW) begun delivery of the U.S. Army's UH-72A Light 1.3 Stelia Aerospace Utility Helicopter (LUH). 2. Airbus Helicopters Airbus Defence and Space. This unit merges the 3. Airbus Defence and Space former Airbus Military, Astrium, and Cassidian 3.1 Military Aircraft divisions into a new defense and space company. 3.1.1 PZL Warszawa-Okęcie SA 3.2 Space Systems Military Aircraft. This unit produces light and medium 3.3 Communication, Intelligence & Security military transport aircraft, including the C-212, CN-235, 3.4 Electronics and C-295. In addition, Airbus Military is a major partner of the Airbus Military Company consortium, Airbus. Airbus produces the single-aisle A320 family which manufactures the A400M. The unit is also (A318, A319, A320, and A321), the twin-aisle involved in the Eurofighter, the A300 Multi-Role A300/A310 family, the long-range A330 family, the Tanker Transport (MRTT), unmanned aerial systems A350 XWB, the double-deck A380 family, and the (UAS), and ISR (intelligence, surveillance and A319 business jet. Final assembly lines are located in reconnaissance) aircraft. Toulouse, France (A300-600, A310, A320, A330, A340, and A380), and Hamburg, Germany (A318, Space Systems. Formerly Astrium, this unit focuses A319, A321, and A380). on the development, construction, integration, and operation of launch systems (commercial and military, Premium Aerotec. Premium Aerotec is a wholly including the French strategic oceanic force); orbital owned subsidiary composed of the former German systems; Earth observation, navigation and science Airbus sites in Nordenham and Varel, and the former (ENS) satellites; telecom satellites; and propulsion EADS site in Augsburg. This tier-one supplier focuses systems and space equipment. on the design and manufacture of metal and carbon- fiber-reinforced-plastic (CFRP) aerostructures and the Specific satellite programs include the Helios military related manufacturing systems. observation satellite system; the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite, SOHO; the Cluster 2 four-satellite Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH (EFW). This German- fleet; the X-Ray Multi-Mirror satellite, XMM-Newton; based subsidiary focuses on the development and the deep space cometary probe, Rosetta; and the Mars manufacturing of flat fiber-reinforced composite Express and Venus Express. components for structures and interiors, the conversion of passenger aircraft into freighter configuration, and Airbus Group is active in the field of launchers and maintenance and repair of Airbus aircraft, as well as launch services through its shareholdings in engineering services related to certification and Arianespace for the heavy-lift launcher, Ariane 5; approval. Starsem for medium-lift launchers; and Eurockot for November 2015 Defense & Aerospace Companies, Volume II - International Page 3 Airbus Group small-lift launchers. Airbus Group has a 25.9 percent cybersecurity systems. This unit also provides geo stake in Arianespace SA. The unit is also the prime information. contractor for France's ballistic nuclear missiles, the Electronics. Electronics, formerly Cassidian, has the submarine-launched M45 and M51. widest product range of all four Airbus Defence and Communication, Intelligence & Security. This unit, Space business lines. The products include radars and formerly Cassidian, offers a wide variety of products, IFF systems, electronic warfare sensors and systems, systems and services, including secure mobile radio avionics, space platform electronics, space payload systems, satellite communications, border security electronics, and optronics. systems, C4ISR systems, defense systems, and Facilities Airbus Group's major facilities are listed below. Airbus Defence and Space Airbus Defence and Space (Astrium), 6, rue Laurent Airbus Pichat 70516 Paris Cedex 16, France. Telephone: + 33 Airbus, 1 Rond Point Maurice Bellonte, 31707 Blagnac 1 77 75 80 00. Airbus Defence and Space Services is Cedex, France. Telephone: + 33 5 61 93 33 33. Airbus also located at this facility. is headquartered in Blagnac (near Toulouse). Website: http://airbusdefenceandspace.com Website: http://www.airbus.com Airbus Defence and Space Satellites, 31, rue des Premium Aerotec GmbH, Haunstetter Str. 225, 86179 Cosmonautes, 31 402 Toulouse Cedex 4, France. Augsburg, Germany. Telephone: + 49 0 821 801 0. This wholly owned Airbus Group subsidiary focuses on Airbus Defence and Space Transportation France, 66, the design and manufacture of metal and CFRP route de Verneuil, 78 133 Les Mureaux Cedex, France. aerostructures and the related manufacturing systems. Airbus Defence and Space Transportation Germany, Website: http://www.premium-aerotec.com Airbus-Allee 1, 28199 Bremen, Germany. Telephone: + 49 421 539 0. Airbus Group Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), Grenzstrasse 1, 01109 Dresden, Germany. Airbus Defence and Space (Cassidian), Manufactures flat fiber-reinforced composite Landshuterstrasse 26, PO Box 1661, 85705 components for structures and interiors of the entire Unterschleissheim, Germany. Telephone: + 49 0 89 Airbus family, converts passenger aircraft into freighter 3179 0. The Systems unit is located here as well. configuration, and provides maintenance and repair of Airbus Defence and Space Air Systems, Rechliner Airbus aircraft as well as engineering services. Strasse, 85 077 Manching, Germany. Telephone: + 49 Website: http://www.efw.airbus-group.com 84 59 81 0. Stelia Aerospace (formerly Aerolia), Boulevard des Eurofighter, Am Söldnermoos 17, 85 399 Apprentis, BP 50301, 44605 Saint-Nazaire, France. Hallbergmoos, Germany. Telephone: + 49 811 80 0. Telephone: + 33 2 53 48 50 00. This wholly owned Consortium that produces the complete Eurofighter