EventEVENT2026-07-20
EVENT: Farnborough opens with AI defence systems and aerospace capacity constraints in focus
Farnborough opens with attention shifting toward AI-enabled defence systems and unresolved aerospace production constraints, especially critical components, engines, interiors and rate-readiness.
The Dataleo angle
The affected decision is how aerospace manufacturers allocate scarce qualified capacity across civil production recovery and defence demand acceleration. Value requires production-rate plans to reflect supplier qualification, tooling, labour and component bottlenecks. The failure mode is treating new orders or defence demand as executable demand when the constrained supply base cannot support the required rate.