Objectives and Performance Contract

COP 2022 - 2026

Objectives and performance contract 2022-2026: under the sign of strengthening ONERA's expertise capacities for the State.

Signed on March 3, 2022 by the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly and the President and CEO of ONERA, Bruno Sainjon, the 2022 - 2026 objectives and performance contract (COP) recognizes the success of the transformation of the 'office and reflects its ambition to consolidate its status as a key partner of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and the aeronautics and space industry.

The new COP is marked by high expectations from players in the aerospace ecosystem with regard to ONERA. These expectations result from the successes and results obtained by ONERA since 2017, a date which coincides with the transformation in which the Office has embarked. They also reflect the numerous opportunities for mobilizing research and expertise offered by military and civilian programs already underway or to come.

The COP 2022-2026 expresses a strengthening of ONERA's expertise capacities for state project management. Objective: to ensure a high level of competence for the benefit of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and to support the defense industrial and technological base.

This contract also concretizes ONERA's response to the main challenges it faces through the implementation of scientific and technological roadmaps developed during the previous period. Beyond its programmatic dimension and its role in guiding research, this new means will make it possible to structure relationships with institutional, industrial and academic partners.

Concerning the space sector, the period covered by the COP will be used by ONERA and CNES to strengthen their research relations.
The completion of the operation to regroup the Ile-de-France sites, with the teams moving in planned for 2025, will also constitute – for Île-de-France – a powerful catalyst for increasing relations with research and of higher education on the Saclay plateau.

The major challenge for ONERA is to have engineers and researchers at the best level of skills and expertise in order to meet the challenge of tomorrow's technological breakthroughs, while protecting knowledge and know-how.

Finally, the COP sets a balanced financial trajectory aimed at strengthening the economic base of ONERA, the growth of its workforce, its contractual dynamics as well as its capacity to invest. This balance is based on a constant increase in ONERA's budget since 2020, increasing from €234 million to €256 million in 2021 to reach €266 million in 2022.