NCC welcomes ATI’s new technology strategy to double the value of the UK aerospace sector
Engineering Growth, ATI’s latest UK aerospace technology strategy directly aligns with NCC's own technology strategy. This reflects a shared understanding of where the engineering challenges are and what it will take to meet them.
The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI)'s updated strategy confirms the scale of opportunity available to the UK aerospace sector. Doubling global market share to $18 billion by 2035, and growing to $41 billion by 2050, is achievable. The UK has the foundations to get there: deep industrial strength in aerostructures and propulsion systems, and a strong track record of delivering complex aerospace programmes. The strategy is right to build on those strengths, and on the thousands of high-value jobs that growth will create.
The path to that opportunity runs through specific technology challenges. A next generation single-aisle aircraft programme is expected to launch towards the end of this decade, alongside continued development of future zero-emissions aircraft. Capturing those opportunities requires sovereign capability in advanced materials including composites, advances in digital manufacturing and automation, and the ability to manufacture at unprecedented rate. The strategy names these clearly and sets out the technology roadmaps required to address them.
NCC has been working with the ATI and industry for over 15 years to build exactly those capabilities. That work spans research, development and demonstration on real programmes, with real components, at production-relevant scale, across aerostructures and advanced materials manufacturing.
NCC's own technology strategy aligns directly with the roadmaps Engineering Growth sets out, reflecting a shared understanding of where the engineering challenges are and what it will take to meet them.
The economic prize is significant. Realising it will require continued collaboration between industry, academia and government, as well as sustained investment in the advanced manufacturing capabilities that underpin UK competitiveness.
NCC is committed to playing its part, working in partnership with the ATI and the wider aerospace sector to advance the core technologies that will secure and grow UK advanced manufacturing for the long term.
NCC at FIA 2026
Together with the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority, NCC experts will be at the Farnborough International Airshow 2026 sharing how we're enabling world leading innovators from aerospace, defence and beyond.
