Regarding the Convention on the Establishment of the “Global Combat Air Programme – GCAP International Government Organisation”
Convention on the Establishment of the “Global Combat Air Programme – GCAP International Government Organisation” was signed between Ministers from Italy, UK and Japan.
IHI participated in the project of a next-generation fighter aircraft by Japan Ministry of Defense as an industry assigned to engine development in 2020, and with the Statement regarding cooperation in the joint development by the three countries on December 9th of 2022, we have been collaborating with relevant governments and industrial partners to accomplish the roll out of next-generation aircraft by 2035. This Convention is an important milestone in constructing an efficient cooperative structure for the future, and we welcome it truly.
IHI will work together with relevant governments and industrial partners more closely to drive GCAP forward and make a significant contribution to success of this program and national security of Japan by exercising our engineering capability accumulated in our history. In addition, through this project, we are committed to build necessary future human resources for global business situations and engineers with advanced technologies, contributing also to national industrial advances.