About FED

The only meeting place for buyers and suppliers of the defence industry.

Since its creation, this biennial event has facilitated the development of relationships between Defence buyers and the business world. It has established itself as the essential meeting place for industry bodies. Since 2011, with the creation of the SIMMT (French Ministry of Defence’s Organization for Integrated Support and Maintenance of Ground Equipment), the FED has assumed a dual dimension. A real means of strengthening client relations, the FED is the ideal place to explore new opportunities, make contact with Defence buyers or for the latter, to meet new suppliers.

FED has proved to be a business event in which each and every company can find good reasons to participate, from Industry leaders to SME specializing in subcontracting with Defence OEM and Government Agencies.

Meant for building and strengthening business relations, FED is also a unique platform for dialogue and prospective: at a time for Armies to reorganize and realign their strategies, the global Defence market has undergone deep restructuring. The growing importance of globalized services as well as tighter control imposed by OEM and administration budget policies has raised legitimate questions among the industry suppliers and those questions can be addressed in confidence at a meeting place such as FED.

Again in 2013, SIMMT and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Versailles (CCIV) are poised to join forces to offer you the best possible framework for your business and make the 13th edition of FED, to take place in Versailles – Satory on May 29 – 30, 2013, a key event for the Defence industry.