PRESS RELEASETOKYO 15/03/2023

International industry partners announce collaborationagreement for GCAP advanced electronics
The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP)’s ISANKE & ICS domain (Integrated Sensing and NonKinetic Effects & Integrated Communications Systems) brings together the defence electronics
powerhouses from three nations.

At the DSEI Japan exhibition in Tokyo, the national industry champions for advanced defence electronics
representing Japan, the UK and Italy have announced the signing of a collaboration agreement, the next
formal step towards a permanent industrial construct.
The companies: Mitsubishi Electric representing Japan, Leonardo UK representing the UK and both
Leonardo and Elettronica representing Italy, have agreed to forge a closer business relationship and assess
appropriate commercial and international operating models, readying the partners for the next stage of theGCAP programme. This will happen in parallel with ongoing research and development work by all partners.
As the defence electronics champions for each of the three GCAP nations, each partner brings a wealth ofrelevant expertise to the ISANKE & ICS domain. In Japan, Mitsubishi Electric has already been involved indevelopment work for advanced electronics under the country’s next generation F-X programme. In Italy,Leonardo and Elettronica have been involved in maturing cutting-edge future combat multi-domain
technologies including sensors, communications and data/information fusion as part of the Italian Defence
Technology Initiative. Leonardo UK is a founding member of the UK’s Tempest project, formed in 2018 todevelop 6th generation combat air technologies.
Together, the three-nation team will collaborate to form the ISANKE & ICS domain, responsible for theadvanced electronics on-board the GCAP platform. This will provide the aircrew with information advantage
and advanced self-protection capabilities.
ISANKE will unlock the potential of sixth generation tactical sensing. It transitions from the traditional combat
air model of individual airborne sensors to instead providing a fully integrated sensing, fusion and selfprotection capability that draws on a spider’s web of sensing and effecting nodes across each platform. ICS
will allow ISANKE to operate as a network across formations of crewed and uncrewed aircraft, as part ofeach nations’ wider, multi-domain system-of-systems. ISANKE & ICS will also ensure that the three GCAP
nations can interoperate with allies in joint operations.
Integrated across the five domains: air, land, sea, space and cyber, the GCAP core platform will rapidly
manage a large amount of data, providing aircrew with the information superiority they will need to succeed
in complex and contested battlespaces, as well as contributing valuable intelligence to other operators. This
makes the 6th generation ISANKE & ICS domain substantially more capable compared to previous
generation operational capabilities.
To deliver this capability, the ISANKE & ICS domain partners recognise that legacy programme structures,infrastructure and performance metrics need to be reevaluated in order to set the pace required to meet thetransformative programme’s 2035 target. The new agreement includes joint recognition of fundamental
principles of working which will unlock this pace, while meeting customer requirements for a spirit of equal
partnership by the three nations and creating an approach that meets each nation’s ambitions in terms of1

integrated mission support, freedom of action and freedom of modification. As the parties work towards apermanent commercial construct to deliver the domain, national requirements for industrial capabilities andprinciples of shared intellectual property will be considered in the spirit of a fully integrated tri-nationalprogramme.
In this process, all of the companies involved are able to draw on experience and lessons learned from majorinternational collaborations, in many cases having worked closely together previously. For example,
Mitsubishi Electric has played a key role in Japan’s F-2 programme. With Leonardo as a partner in theEurofighter Typhoon programme, both UK and Italian teams at the company work on the E-scan radar forthe aircraft as part of the EuroRADAR consortium, while Leonardo UK and Elettronica already collaborate
to deliver the defensive aids sub system for the Typhoon as design authorities in the EuroDASS consortium.
These collaborations have developed critical capabilities for the Eurofighter Typhoon throughout the life of
the programme and will continue to do so in the years to come. Leonardo UK and Mitsubishi Electric havealso been working since 2018 on the UK-Japan JAGUAR radar technology programme and have developed
a relationship that is highly workable, highly cooperative and very trusting.
Media contacts
Leonardo
leonardopressoffice@leonardo.com
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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Public Relations Division
TEL:+81-3-3218-2332

Elettronicapressoffice@elt.it / Anna.colavita@elt.it
TEL: +39 3332025645

About Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
With more than 100 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products, Mitsubishi ElectricCorporation (TOKYO: 6503) is a recognized world leader in the manufacture, marketing and sales of electrical and electronic equipment used
in information processing and communications, space development and satellite communications, consumer electronics, industrial technology,energy, transportation and building equipment. Mitsubishi Electric enriches society with technology in the spirit of its “Changes for the Better.”
The company recorded a revenue of 4,476.7 billion yen (U.S.$ 36.7 billion*) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022. For more information,please visit www.MitsubishiElectric.com*U.S. dollar amounts are translated from yen at the rate of ¥122=U.S.$1, the approximate rate on the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market on
March 31, 2022
Leonardo, a global high-technology company, is a leader in the international Aerospace, Defence and Security sector. Organised into fivebusiness divisions, Leonardo has a significant industrial presence in Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland and the USA, where it also operates
through subsidiaries that include Leonardo DRS (defense electronics), and joint ventures and partnerships: ATR, MBDA, Telespazio, Thales
Alenia Space and Avio. Leonardo competes in international markets by leveraging its areas of technological and product leadership(Helicopters, Aircraft, Aerostructures, Electronics, Cyber & Security Solutions and Space). Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange (LDO), in 2021
Leonardo recorded consolidated revenues of €14.1 billion and invested €1.8 billion in Research and Development. The company has beenpart of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) since 2010 and has been confirmed among the global sustainability leaders in 2021.
Leonardo is also included in the MIB ESG index.
Elettronica has been at the forefront of Electronic Warfare for 70 years, supplying over 3000 high-tech systems to the armed forces andgovernments of 30 countries. Elettronica’s systems are designed for a variety of operational missions, from strategic surveillance, selfprotection, intelligence gathering, electronic defence and operational support for the sea, land and air domains. The company boasts a strong
list of successful national and international collaborations on major programmes like the Tornado fighter, the Eurofighter Typhoon combat
aircraft, the NH-90 helicopter, the Italian offshore patrol vessel and the Franco-Italian Horizon and FREMM warships. The company is part ofGruppo Elettronica which also includes CY4GATE, specialising in Cyber EW, Cybersecurity and Intelligence, Elt GmbH, a German subsidiaryspecialising in the design of Homeland Security systems and EltHub focused on research, innovation and fast prototyping.

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