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The funding is administered through the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Programme, a joint government-industry R&D co-funding vehicle run by the Department for Business and Trade (formerly BEIS/DfT-adjacent). The government committed £975 million to the ATI Programme for 2025-2030, and this tranche — announced by Industry Minister Sarah Jones at the 2025 Paris Air Show — allocates over £250 million (matched by industry) across 11 major projects and 18 smaller initiatives. Notable named awards: Airbus-led DecSAM additive-manufacturing project (£38m), Airbus ZEROe Development Centre liquid-hydrogen fuel-system testing infrastructure (£35m), Rolls-Royce Hot End Technology Phase 3 (£34.3m), Rolls-Royce REPLENISH aftermarket-services project (£33.1m), Rolls-Royce Aerothermal netZero TEChnologies/Aztec engine- efficiency programme (£20.7m), and Intelligent Energy's HEIGHTS hydrogen fuel-cell programme (£17m).
Severity is set low (2) as this is a competitive R&D co-funding grant programme rather than a trade-restrictive or market-access measure; it is filed as industrial-policy state aid under GTA's "state aid, unspecified" classification, quant-anchored on the £250m/£975m disclosed figures.
manufacturing ahead of the government's autumn 2025 Industrial Strategy.
concentrating UK green-aviation R&D capacity in two prime contractors.
co-investment programmes reorienting capex toward domestic/allied supply chains.
REPLENISH, HEIGHTS) were not disclosed in the primary announcement.
tranche-announced separately (watch for follow-on filings).