The second IFAR Summit took place in the frame of the Paris Air show and on invitation of ONERA in Méry-sur-Oise, 18 19 June 2011. The participants represent the heads or the high level representatives from 20 aviation researchorganisations worldwide. IFAR is the new international platform of national aviation researchorganisations
Since its creation, ONERA has not ceased to develop cooperation with aeronautical and aerospace researchorganizations from Europe, the United States, Canada, and- as from the 90s- from China, Japan and Russia. Notably in this period, the AEREA (which later became the REIA) was created in 1994- an association of European research establishments in aeronautics, consisting at beginning of the European counterparts ONERA (France), the DLR (Germany), CIRA (Italy), the NLR (Netherlands), and INTA (Spain)
But a number of researchorganizations, including Onera, are trying to make them more autonomous, in order to increase their operational effectiveness. We asked Claude Barrouil, head of Onera's Information Processing and Systems branch, to shed some light on drone autonomy
Thirdly, it is a highly paradoxical situation for ONERA to have only this single guaranteed source of funds, from defense, when both national (National Research Agency funding, for instance) and European rules mandate that an organization such as ONERA self finance part of the civil research relevant to these agencies
