Emerging trends in aerospace and defense 2025

The global Aerospace and Defense (A&D) sector is growing rapidly. Airbus and Boeing predict more than 40,000 new commercial jets will be manufactured over the next 20 years. And global defense spending rose by nearly 10 percent in 2024, its fastest growth rate in nearly four decades.

At the same time, however, the sector is undergoing rapid and disruptive change across a wide range of areas. The agenda is continuously shifting based on rapidly evolving geopolitical change and technological advancements. As such, A&D leaders and defense departments will need to take a much more holistic view of their strategies to thrive in the current environment.

This report is intended to help sector executives, defense leaders, suppliers and investors make the most of the rapid change now underway across the sector. Rather than simply focus on the challenges, this report strives to provide A&D executives and decision-makers with practical and actionable insights and clear takeaways to better understand the challenges and identify the opportunities.

• Geopolitics: Risks and opportunities in the new world order
• Supply chain resilience: Agility in the face of disruption
• Sustainability: Collaboration in a fractured world
• Competition: Scaling the next generation
• R&D: Accelerating innovation

• Digitalisation: Delivering on the need for speed
• M&A: Focus on value creation
• Workforce: Reshaping the strategy
• Defense: Integrating domains
• Space: Commercialising the next frontier