Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2023

1. Information on the Company’s Activities

1.4 Recent Developments

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the other six. The projects that Airbus Defence and Space leads as coordinator are: – – SESIOP, for the Single European Sky and Interoperability; – – EUCINF, an European Cyber and Information warfare toolbox; – –FASETT, the Future Air System for European Tactical Transportation – –SPIDER, for Space based Persistent ISR for Defence and Europe Reinforcement. Regarding the 2023 call for tender, Airbus Defence and Space recently submitted proposals for projects as participant of 14 different consortia, out of which Airbus Defence and Space currently will coordinate three: – –ESOCA for Strategic Air Transportation of Outsized Cargo (SATOC); – –MARIOS for Laser Communications (under coordination of the subsidiary TESAT); – – ARCHER for human language technologies. All these European Defence Fund projects offer valuable contributions toward the fulfilment of the Company’s strategy, and will contribute to strengthening the European defence industry as well as the military capabilities of the nations. Looking further, cooperation with academia and universities has been emphasised with the celebration of three events to foster technology collaboration with Universities and research centres, called Collaboration#Tech, in which more than one hundred universities and research centres had the chance to answer specific challenges posed by the engineering teams with their ideas and solutions through projects. In terms of Intellectual Property, the Airbus Defence and Space IP patent portfolio has been strengthened. Looking at specific areas, in line with the Top-10 Technologies mentioned earlier, software-defined elements such as Cybersecurity, Cloud and

connectivity have been strengthened. In 2022, Airbus Defence and Space saw its innovation spirit recognised with an ADS inventor nominated for the European Patent Office’s European Patent Award. For the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), in addition to the tri national programme, Airbus Defence and Space has launched national initiatives with German and Spanish Customers to develop underlying technologies feeding either multinational or national streams. The common technical building blocks are related to Connectivity and Communication Networking as a key capability for collaborative engagements. Beyond tri national and national activities, the Company is linking with the European Defence Fund in the specific areas of Human-Machine Interaction, preparation of standards for Collaborative Warfare and enhanced, digitalised and secure battlespace information distribution across all operational domains in the following projects: – –EPIIC – Enhanced Pilot Interfaces & Interactions for fighter Cockpit; – –EICACS – European Initiative for Collaborative Air Combat Standardization; – – MDOC – Military multi-domain operations cloud. In 2023, Airbus Defence and Space took the role as Co-Chair within NATO-wide working groups on strategic topics related to FCAS such as Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD) against a modern Integrated Air Defence System (IADS), next generation of Air Combat platforms and weapons with a focus on multi-domain operations and interoperability with NATO’s Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR) and Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) programmes and the potential of Advanced and Novel Electronic Attack Capabilities.

1.4 Recent Developments

On 1 January 2024, the Company implemented a new organisational set up and top management changes, including the appointment of a designated Commercial Aircraft leadership team, operating under the helm of Christian Scherer, and the appointment of its first Chief Sustainability Officer, Julie Kitcher. For further information, please refer to “– 4.1.1.3 c) – The Executive Committee”.

On 28 February 2024, it was announced that Ralph Crosby has resigned from the Board of Directors with effect on the date of the 2024 Annual General Meeting, and that a resolution proposing Dr. Feiyu Xu as a Non-Executive Director for the remainder of Mr. Crosby’s term would be presented at the Annual General Meeting. For further information, please see section “– 4.1.1.1 e) – The Board of Directors”, and please also refer to the 2024 Annual General Meeting Information Notice, available through the Annual General Meetings link in the Investors section of the Company’s website.

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