ALENET is a multi-year business transformation initiative, designed to deliver benefits in standardization, streamlining, and innovation to Alenia companies, suppliers, partners, and customers worldwide. Promoting an extended and integrated vision of the PLM and simulation environment, the ALENET objectives focus on improving engineering lifecycle efficiency and include strategies for the improved integration of suppliers and partners, harmonization of technologies and processes, and the capture, management, and sharing of inherent process and intellectual property enterprise-wide. This partnership will enable Alenia Aeronautica to provide Virtual Test services and competences based on ALENET to the other subsidiaries of the Finmeccanica group.

In the aeronautic sector, Virtual Test technologies have become a strategic component of the design and development processes, with a significant positive impact on development time, cost and quality associated with the final product.

Alenia Aeronautica has adopted these technologies for design and realization of the new UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) Programmes. In particular, the Molynx, a remotely piloted aircraft for high-altitude civil monitoring and land protection, characterized by a very long endurance, and the Sky-Y, firstly revealed to the market at the Le Bourget exhibition, a showcase of innovative techniques and technologies for MALE (Medium Altitude Long Endurance) class airplanes designed to performe territory surveillance and military missions.