“Data will be in charge”: this is how Simone Ungaro, Leonardo’s Chief Innovation Officer, summarises the strategic transformation outlined in the company’s 2024-2028 Industrial Plan to establish itself as a “global security provider”. As Simone Ungaro notes, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, cloud, and digital twins are equally fundamental to generate data, and technologies will become increasingly data-centric.

This is why, Ungaro explains, the digital continuum is the multipurpose pivot point of the Industrial Plan. It is a common thread of continuity with the past but looking to the future, with a logic of accelerating digitisation and technological convergence. AI, cloud, and digital twins must converge on processes and products to ensure the progression from innovation in the lab to applied innovation, bringing this logic to the entire product portfolio.

In Ungaro’s vision, Leonardo must become a big digital factory in which the digitalisation of all sites and factories activities must also be supported in terms of cybersecurity, one of the strategic areas in the Industrial Plan together with Space.