Interviews - AD2S Aerospace & Defence Support and Services

Written on 15 April 2026.

Combat MRO and Spare Parts Readiness: Toward a 3D‑Printed Circular Supply Chain

April 15th, 2026 - Additive manufacturing with recycled metals is rapidly moving from laboratory curiosity to operational reality, offering aviation and defense a way to cut emissions while easing pressure on fragile critical‑mineral supply...

Written on 08 April 2026.

AD2S Podcast - Combat MRO at the Core of Air Superiority: “Holding Out Five Minutes Longer”

April 8th 2026 - French Air and Space Force Lieutenant General Stéphane Groën, Territorial Commander of the Air and Space Force and OGZDS Southwest (General Officer of the Southwest Defense and Security Zone), opened the roundtable...

Written on 24 March 2026.

AD2S Podcast - High Intensity: Continuity, Adaptation, and Technical Common Sense

March 24th, 2026 - Dassault Aviation’s Perspective on Combat MRO The remarks by Pierre Daubin, Commercial Director of Dassault Aviation’s General Directorate of Military Support (DGSM), are a direct continuation of the...

Written on 10 March 2026.

Innovation: ATEA’s Double – Or Triple - Dare

March 10th, 2026 - The ATEA demonstrator from Ascendance Flight Technologies - a Toulouse-based start-up founded in 2018 by Jean-Christophe Lambert, Thibault Baldivia, Clément Dinel, and Benoît Ferran - embodies a “double challenge” in...

Written on 03 March 2026.

French Exercise ORIONIS 26: Testing Military MRO Under High Intensity

March 3rd, 2026 News brief - From February 10th to 12th, 2026, several hundred military MRO players ("MCO-A" in French) - military and civilian personnel of the armed forces (including nearly two hundred personnel from the Aeronautical...

Written on 23 February 2026.

AD2S Podcast - High Intensity: Preparing for Combat MRO on the Industry Side

February 23rd, 2026 - Airbus Defence and Space Faces High Intensity: Anticipating the Loss of "Tempo Control" During the AD2S roundtable on January 13th, 2026 - themed "The Challenge of Combat MRO Under High-Intensity Engagement" -, Julien...

Written on 26 January 2026.

AD2S Podcasts - Military MRO: Getting Ready To Hold The Line, Together

January 26th, 2026 - On January 13, 2026, AD2S hosted a roundtable at the « Hôtel de Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine ». Moderated by General (ret.) Jean-Marc Laurent, Executive Director of the Defense and Aerospace Chair, the...

Written on 27 April 2025.

Job market: boosting the appeal of military MRO jobs in a context of unprecedented supply (II of IV)

April 21, 2025 - By Murielle Delaporte – Highlights of the fifth panel in the AD2S conference series entitled “The challenge of employment and skills retention in the MCO Aero sector” This is the second part of this series of four articles. ...

Written on 21 April 2025.

Job market: boosting the appeal of military MRO jobs in a context of unprecedented supply (I of IV)

March 25, 2025 - By Murielle Delaporte – Highlights from the fifth panel of the AD2S conference series entitled “The challenge of employment and skills retention in Aerospace Operational Support Services” Moderated by Ms. Alina...

Written on 21 March 2025.

Towards a “Sustainable Defense”: Balancing Operational Efficiency and Environmental Imperatives (Part II)

March 21st, 2025 – By Murielle Delaporte Highlights from the fourth panel of the AD2S conference cycle, titled “The Aerospace Operational Support Services: An Innovative Actor in Sustainable Development” Below is Part Two of the panel...

Written on 21 March 2025.

Towards a “Sustainable Defense”: Balancing Operational Efficiency and Environmental Imperatives (Part I)

March 5th, 2025 – By Murielle Delaporte Highlights from the fourth panel of the AD2S conference cycle, titled “ The Aerospace Operational Support Services: An Innovative Actor in Sustainable Development” Moderated by Lieutenant...

Written on 24 February 2025.

Military MRO: Enhancing Readiness By Optimizing Resources and Suppressing Irritants (II of II)

February 24th, 2025 - By Murielle Delaporte - Highlights of the third panel of the AD2S conference cycle entitled “Innovation in military MRO, an air power factor” (Part II) 2) Data capture: a revolution in progress For...

Written on 03 February 2025.

Military MRO: Enhancing Readiness By Optimizing Resources and Suppressing Irritants (I of II)

February 3rd, 2025 - By Murielle Delaporte - Highlights of the third panel of the AD2S conference series, entitled “Innovation in aerospace technical-operational support services, an air power factor” Moderated by Jean-Marc Roffi,...

Written on 20 January 2025.

Military MRO In France: “Moving Towards a Combat Maintenance Planning Document” (II of II)

January 20th, 2025 - By Murielle Delaporte - Highlights from the second panel entitled “Preparing For Conflict: Economy of Aerospace Operational Support Services” (Part II) This second part of our article on the highlights of the second...

Written on 09 December 2024.

Military MRO In France: “Moving Towards A Combat Maintenance Planning Document” (I of II)

December 9th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte - Highlights of the second panel entitled “Preparing For Conflict: Economy of Aerospace Operational Support Services” This second panel, moderated by Jean Belin, researcher in economy and defense at...

Written on 04 November 2024.

Military MRO And The Challenge Of A Major High-Intensity Conflict: The Need For A Change In Mindset (II of II)

November 4th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte - Highlights of the first panel entitled “Technical-operational support for defense aeronautics facing a major conflict" (Part II) Solutions And Tools: “Thinking Outside The Box” The dispersal...

Written on 04 November 2024.

Military MRO And The Challenge Of A Major High-Intensity Conflict: The Need For A Change In Mindset (I of II)

October 18th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte - Highlights of the first panel entitled “Technical-operational support for defense aeronautics facing a major conflict" (Part I) This panel was moderated by Air Force Lieutenant General (2S)...

Written on 19 September 2024.

AD2S 2024 Conference Program: An Agenda “Based On Current Security Events”

September 15th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte - Interview with General (2S) Jean-Marc Laurent, head of the Defense & Aerospace Chair at Sciences Po Bordeaux Heir to the ADS Show created in 2012, AD2S takes up the torch of this singular...

Written on 27 August 2024.

Archives – CSFA: ‘COMBAT PROVEN’ (II of II)

August 15th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte - Interview with Air Force Lieutenant General Jean-Marc Laurent, Commander of the Air Force Support Command – CSFA - (conducted in 2014). This second part focuses on the lessons learned from Operation...

Written on 19 August 2024.

Archives – Combat proven : Lessons Learned From The French Air Force Support Combat Command (I of II)

July 15th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte - An Interview with Air Force Lieutenant General Jean-Marc Laurent, former Commander of the French Air Force Support Command*. *This interview, conducted in May 2014, was published in Opérationnels...

Written on 15 July 2024.

Military MRO: a tale of generations (II of II)

June 20th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte Military MRO and the Need for Customisation The second part of this article focuses on two broad characteristics about what could be referred to as "multigenerational military MRO". ...

On May 2nd, 2024, the French Air and Space Force (AAE) organized a ceremony at Ventiseri-Solenzara French Air Base 126 in honor of the SA-330 Puma helicopter and in order to celebrate its fifty years of service and nearly sixty years of existence.

Written on 01 July 2024.

Military MRO: a tale of generations (I of II)

June 15th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte Recently held in France, the defense and security exhibit Eurosatory 2024 has just witnessed the announcement by Leonardo of its new helicopter program, the AW249, designed to replace the A-129 Mangusta...

Written on 07 June 2024.

Military Aviation MRO and the concept of « war economy » (II of II)

June 8th, 2024 - Par Murielle Delaporte This is part II of our article entitled “Military Aviation MRO and the concept of 'war economy'” The Specific Challenges of Military Aviation MRO If we take up the five challenges...

Written on 03 June 2024.

Military Aviation MRO and the concept of « war economy » (I of II)

May 8th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte While the conflict in Ukraine has restored a vocabulary not used since World War I, the choice of words and the scope of their meaning must be interpreted in the context of the 21st century and in the light...

Written on 06 May 2024.

France: “MCO-A” Summed Up In A Few Words And Figures

April 8th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte - Following a logic of domains In the defense and security sector, operational maintenance (MCO in French for “Maintien en condition opérationnelle”) “covers all the resources (human,...

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