ALTEN at Navy Wings

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29 October 2026
Future Maritime Air Industry Day / Unmanned and Autonomous Capabilities Conference.

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FROM INNOVATION TO DEPLOYMENT

We scaled ventilators in a crisis. Now we must scale drones.

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During COVID-19, UK manufacturers came together to turn an existing ventilator design into a mass-production programme, building more than 11,000 units in 12 weeks. Today, the defence sector faces a comparable industrial challenge: scaling a developing drone product rapidly, across multiple suppliers, while maintaining quality, assurance and control.

The technology may be different, but the production challenge is strikingly similar. Success depends on knowing where the real bottlenecks are, managing design changes at pace and giving every partner access to trusted, actionable data.

We bring the production insight, data and collaborative ways of working needed to turn technical capability into scalable delivery.

What can ventilators teach us about scaling defence capability? Talk with Paul Crabtree, MD of Quick Release UK at our stand today.

ALTEN Perspectives

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Mission Success Depends on Trusted Data.

Whether managing autonomous systems, aircraft modifications or next-generation defence capability, every decision relies on accurate, trusted engineering information.

The challenge isn't collecting data. It's ensuring the right people have access to the right information at the right time.

Through expertise in Product Data Management, Configuration Management and engineering process improvement, ALTEN helps defence organisations maintain control, assurance and traceability across the entire lifecycle.

From autonomous systems to next-generation defence platforms, success depends on more than technology. ALTEN helps organisations manage the engineering data, configuration control and programme complexity needed to scale capability, reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
 
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The Platform Isn't the Challenge. Scaling It Is.

Defence has no shortage of innovative autonomous technologies. The challenge is turning successful prototypes into deployable capability, rapidly and repeatedly.

As programmes scale, engineering data multiplies, suppliers expand, requirements evolve and changes accelerate. Without control of product data, configuration and engineering processes, delivery slows and risk increases.

ALTEN helps defence organisations create the foundations that enable complex programmes to scale. Through product data management, configuration management and digital engineering expertise, we help teams maintain confidence in their data, manage change effectively and accelerate delivery of critical capability.

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