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June 18, 2026
Eurosatory 2026
How does digital technology contribute to the sovereignty and operational superiority of armed forces?
June 15–19, 2026
A strategic priority: accelerating the digital transformation of Defense
From June 15 to 19, Equans Digital participated in Eurosatory 2026 at Paris Nord Villepinte, alongside Ineo Defense and Exavision, with a shared goal: to demonstrate how digital technologies, critical infrastructure, and data contribute to strengthening the industrial performance, resilience, and sovereignty of defense stakeholders.
Against a backdrop of industrial rearmament and rapidly evolving threats, discussions with defense industry players and the armed forces centered on a key question:
how can we improve operational efficiency while ensuring control over and the security of critical systems?
Sovereign technologies driving operational performance
To address these challenges, Equans Digital supports defense industry players in modernising their industrial and digital infrastructures, with an integrated approach ranging from the field to data analytics.
At the booth, several areas of expertise particularly caught visitors’ attention:
- Automation and industrial control: production equipment control, plant monitoring, MES, scheduling, and traceability to improve the performance and reliability of critical industrial processes.
- Robotics, machine vision, and embedded AI: optimising operations through solutions that assist operators, automate certain tasks, and facilitate decision-making.
- OT/IT Cybersecurity: securing critical infrastructure and data flows to ensure business continuity and system resilience in the face of new threats.
- OT/IT Convergence and Data Utilisation: system interoperability, industrial data analysis, and anomaly detection to improve operational management and decision support.
The common thread running through these discussions: transforming complex environments into more efficient, resilient, and autonomous systems.
A Global Vision Supporting Defense Capabilities
Beyond the challenges of digitalisation, Eurosatory 2026 highlighted how Equans France’s diverse areas of expertise complement one another in support of the armed forces.
Discussions focused in particular on:
- Critical communications and secure infrastructure;
- Intelligence and electronic warfare;
- Optronic surveillance and decision-support solutions;
- Command posts and deployable mobile solutions;
- Infrastructure that contributes to resilience and operational continuity.
Visitor feedback confirmed a strong trend: the digital transformation of the defense sector is now a top priority, driven by issues of sovereignty, resilience, and operational superiority.
Building the Defense of Tomorrow with Sovereign Solutions
The 2026 edition of Eurosatory confirmed the importance of an integrated approach combining industrial expertise, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and data analytics.
This is the approach that Equans Digital is taking alongside Ineo Defense and Exavision to provide long-term support to defense stakeholders in their modernisation projects and contribute to the development of capabilities that are increasingly high-performing, secure, and sovereign.
Let's Talk About Digital Sovereignty and Operational Performance
Are you looking to modernise your infrastructure, secure your critical systems, or accelerate your digital transformation? Contact our experts to develop solutions tailored to the requirements of the defense and BITD sectors.Let's Talk About Digital Sovereignty and Operational Performance
Are you looking to modernise your infrastructure, secure your critical systems, or accelerate your digital transformation? Contact our experts to develop solutions tailored to the requirements of the defense and BITD sectors.