Airbus - 2022 Universal Registration Document

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AI and Autonomy The Wayfinder team is developing certifiable autonomous flight and machine learning solutions to help Airbus bring about a significant increase in safety and efficiency in the next generation of commercial aircraft. Wayfinder’s team of experts is working hand-in-hand with Airbus’ teams in Europe to continue to improve and iterate on their computer vision-based autonomous systems and data-driven development in order to support Airbus’ wider autonomy goals. Digital Design and Manufacturing The Advanced Digital Design and Manufacturing (“ ADAM ”) team seeks to transform the aerospace industry through the application of digital innovation across design and manufacturing. Whether adapting manufacturing processes to gain efficiencies or to cope with disruptions, such as supply chain issues, ADAM develops solutions to reduce lead times, production costs and improve workflows dynamically, blending its software and hardware expertise. Digital Airspace The Unmanned Traffic Management (“ UTM ”) team’s work aims to enable autonomous and digital air traffic operations that ensure a safe, fair and efficient airspace. The team is doing this through research, simulations, operational services and industry collaborations. Pioneered out of Acubed, these activities are an integral part of the global Airbus UTM programme located across Europe and Singapore. The team delivers a suite of products for an extensible UTM ecosystem, that includes essential core services such as safety briefings, risk analysis and airspace authorisation as well as digital airspace twin simulation capabilities. Quantum Acubed is accelerating research on the application of quantum computing and sensing on aviation use cases to further Airbus’ understanding of the potential of these technologies and how they may be leveraged to improve operational sustainability. Airbus China Innovation Centre (“ACIC”) ACIC, based in Shenzhen, is the first innovation centre set up by the Company in China. Its mission is to fully leverage China’s local innovation ecosystem including talents, partners and resources, combined with the Company’s expertise in aerospace, to discover promising technologies, to identify solutions enabling new services, and to accelerate the delivery of innovation projects: –the manufacturing innovation team is tasked to explore industry 4.0 technologies to improve efficiency and safety on the shop floor, as well as to leverage Airbus’ industrial sites in China for accelerated local testing and global dissemination. The team is working on computer vision, Automated Guided Vehicles (“ AGV ”), 5G industrial connectivity, smart tooling, remote inspection, green factory and IoT. Various applications are handed over to business and implemented in daily operation; – the cabin experience team is tasked with providing innovation for the cabin and cargo of tomorrow, to enhance Airbus’ local cabin offering (local to local) and to increase value for Airbus global cabin products (from local to global). The team is working on broadband connectivity with 5G, a smart cabin operation

system contributing to Airspace Link, flexible displays, IoT based smart applications and sustainable cabin solutions; –the tech lab team is working on computer vision algorithm development, battery scouting and testing, various types of sensors fit to different scenarios and fast electronics prototypes building. The team is also starting to engage with certain industry standard making organisations, to influence standards with aeronautic requirements. Airbus InnovationX Airbus InnovationX focuses on active innovation delivery and operates on four different levels all integrated under one “roof” and with a proper innovation governance at Airbus level: – Global technology intelligence : Explores technology trends across geographies to support Airbus future challenges while detecting the right start-ups, SMEs and companies to partner with; – Start-up engagement : Understanding the essence of the needs of Airbus that could be addressed to high maturity start-ups with the objective to speed-up the solution making and generating positive impact for Airbus; – Company building : To anticipate the trends that could disrupt the future of the aerospace industry and evaluate them to identify and incubate potential new businesses preparing to be accelerated within Airbus; – Corporate innovation : To support and guide the internal and external innovation ecosystem in its development, with the objective to increase the impact and visibility of Airbus as an innovative and sustainable company. Supported by the innovation governance and operations while fostering entrepreneurship and out-of-the-box thinking within Airbus’ own culture. Airbus Commercial Aircraft Airbus Commercial’s R&T activity continues to progress along the axes of safety, decarbonisation, operational efficiency for our customers, Airbus industrial efficiency and resilience and passengers’ experience. Technologies are delivered to current programmes, providing options to improve the products and the industrial system. Technology bricks for future programmes are also investigated and matured: propulsion, wing, aircraft systems, fuselage, empennage, cabin, industrial, maintenance and engineering capabilities are examples of domains of interest. These technology bricks will provide part of the solution for our future licence to operate and our future efficiency and resilience. Their –the Open Fan engine project was announced during the Farnborough airshow to study the concept in partnership with engine manufacturer CFM; – the emissions coming out of engines using SAF measured in flight are providing valuable data for climate science and the design of future engines; –the Fello’Fly demonstrator project, looking at reducing CO 2 through wake energy retrieval, was named Grand Winner of Aviation Week’s most prestigious Laureate Awards for extraordinary achievements in commercial aviation. Low carbon technologies continue to be a strong focus. As part of its ambition to lead the decarbonisation of our industry, Airbus will continue to develop hydrogen technologies around the maturation is the object of a multi-year effort. To give some examples of achievements in 2022:

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Airbus / Universal Registration Document 2022