This research highlights that Member States’ interoperability in the air domain has evolved further than in the land sector because of a combination of a unifying regulatory framework and industrial consolidation. EU legal initiatives, such as the Single European Sky (SES 2+) and the Digital European Sky, are fundamental in creating shared civil–military standards that reduce fragmentation. In this context, Airbus operates as a cross-European actor whose civilian–military production model depends on shared standards and coordinated development among Member States. By contrast, the land domain suffers from dispersed national industries and the absence of a common regulatory framework. Using Airbus as a case study, the paper shows how industrial consolidation and shared rules can advance interoperability, proposing a similar mechanism to close the interoperability gaps in the land domain.
The Airbus effect: paths to interoperability and cohesion
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Aurora D’Auria is a Defence researcher at Finabel