Eurostep’s take on the 2025 Aerospace & Defense Industry Outlook by Deloitte
As a company that has spent decades helping aerospace and defence organizations tackle complex product data challenges, Eurostep sees the latest 2025 Aerospace and Defense Industry Outlook by Deloitte validating many of the trends we’ve observed. Below is a brief look at these key shifts—and how we believe solutions like ShareAspace can address them at scale.
1. Multi-Tier Supply Chain Complexity
What We’re Seeing: Across our Eurostep engagements, it’s increasingly clear that deep supply networks—often spanning hundreds or even thousands of suppliers—create serious transparency issues. The Deloitte report highlights how part shortages and potential counterfeit components are raising red flags industry-wide.
Eurostep’s Perspective: We’ve learned that traditional, siloed approaches to lifecycle data management can’t keep pace with the volume and velocity of supplier interactions. Instead, companies need a single collaboration platform that helps them track every piece of product data, from initial specs to final delivery.
How ShareAspace Contributes: ShareAspace facilitates standards-based, role-specific data sharing, so each tier of the supply chain only sees what they need—no more, no less. This structure helps guard against unauthorized parts and ensures traceability when inevitable disruptions arise.
2. AI-Enhanced Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO)
What We’re Seeing: Predictive maintenance has been a focal point for many of our aerospace clients, but achieving it requires reliable, consistent, and secure data sharing between OEMs, operators, and service teams. Deloitte underscores the same point: AI is only as good as the data feeding it.
Eurostep’s Perspective: We’ve found that bridging engineering data (e.g., CAD models, parts libraries) with real-world usage data is essential for accurate predictions. Yet these often reside in separate systems or different companies’ databases.
How ShareAspace Contributes: By harmonizing MRO and engineering data in one collaborative environment, ShareAspace helps organizations map actual usage and performance data to specific product structures. This alignment is what drives more precise, proactive maintenance.
3. Data Security and Export Control Compliance
What We’re Seeing: Eurostep frequently works with defence clients for whom export control is non-negotiable. Complex, cross-border supply chains only add to the challenge of managing sensitive data securely. The report notes that, as budgets grow, security and regulatory scrutiny will intensify.
Eurostep’s Perspective: We advocate a “compliance by design” approach, embedding export control checks into the very fabric of data sharing. It shouldn’t be an afterthought or a patch—it should be part of the system’s DNA.
How ShareAspace Contributes: ShareAspace enforces fine-grained access controls to ensure that export-controlled or proprietary data never leaves authorized hands. Whether you’re dealing with international partners or local subcontractors, the platform ensures that regulations are consistently applied.
4. Retaining and Transferring Knowledge
What We’re Seeing: Like many in the industry, we’re concerned about the wave of experienced professionals heading into retirement. Critical know-how risks disappearing if it isn’t systematically captured. Deloitte’s research underlines just how vital it is to record and share institutional memory before it walks out the door.
Eurostep’s Perspective: For us, knowledge retention hinges on treating design data, maintenance logs, and change histories as living documents. They should be maintained centrally and updated in real-time.
How ShareAspace Contributes: Acting as a centralised PLM backbone and with robust version control, ShareAspace helps you capture not only the “what” of a design change, but also the “why.” That contextual detail is what new staff and partners need to keep programs running smoothly.
5. Accelerating Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)
What We’re Seeing: As eVTOLs and advanced air mobility solutions in the US race toward certification, the pace of collaboration among OEMs, suppliers, and regulators is accelerating. Deloitte flags the challenge of synchronizing data for rapid design cycles, testing, and regulatory approvals.
Eurostep’s Perspective: We see AAM as a prime example of next-generation aerospace collaboration. It’s a domain where every stakeholder must have timely access to validated data—yet each partner has unique requirements and obligations.
How ShareAspace Contributes: In addition to the lifecycle data, ShareAspace brings all the diverse stakeholders onto a single hub. This helps coordinate design revisions, test reports, and compliance checks, speeding up certification without risking errors or rework.
What Is ShareAspace?
ShareAspace is Eurostep’s standards-based collaboration platform designed to handle secure, cross-company data sharing at scale. It enables a complete digital thread across the product or asset lifecycle while ensuring that every stakeholder—whether an OEM, supplier, regulator, or operator—has access to consistent, up-to-date, and relevant product data. This approach streamlines multi-enterprise processes and safeguards sensitive information throughout the lifecycle.
Final Reflections
From our vantage point at Eurostep, the 2025 Aerospace and Defense Industry Outlook underscores a central truth: secure, flexible, and integrated collaboration is crucial for the next decade of aerospace and defence. Whether it’s overcoming supply chain disruptions or powering AI-driven maintenance, success depends on strong data foundations and carefully managed information flows.
ShareAspace is our way of putting that principle into practice. And if the Deloitte report is any indication, now is the time for A&D organizations to shore up their PLM strategies and ensure they’re ready for tomorrow’s challenges.
To delve deeper into these industry insights, we recommend reading the full 2025 Aerospace and Defense Industry Outlook.
