Innovation, our core strategy
Innovation
At Naval Group, innovation serves two major challenges: guaranteeing the technological superiority of our customers, and improving our competitiveness, a condition for our leadership on all continents.
Innovation is also about ambition: offering excellence in naval defence and energy. Naval Group has introduced innovation into its technological strategic plan, in six major areas: Smart naval force, Invulnerable ship, Smart ship, Blue ship, Smart availability, Smart industry.
To accelerate its efforts in the field of innovation”, Naval Group is basing its efforts around three fundamental pillars: collaborative innovation, open innovation and breakthrough innovation. An agile approach - just like that of our various laboratories and technology incubators - which, combined with the recognised scientific expertise of the Naval Research teams, does not overlook any promising conceptual designs.
Governance
The Technical and Innovation department (DTI) governs research and development (R&D) at Naval Group. This department carries out their mission by drawing on all the group's entities and expertise, including Naval Research which has three R&D centres of expertise.

Centres of excellence: the world of Naval Group
Innovation knows no borders. Thanks to Operational excellence centres (COEs) in France and around the world, Naval Group is investing massively to extend its sphere of influence, surround itself with the best partners internationally and stay one step ahead.

Members of the Scientific Council
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Joël Bertrand
President of the Scientific Council
Emeritus Senior Research Director, CNRS (French Centre for Scientific Research)
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Sophie Brétésché
Vice-President of the Scientific Council
Professor of Sociology
IMT Atlantic (French national business school)
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Armel de la Bourdonnaye
Director of INSA (French national applied sciences school) Hauts-de-France, Certified Doctor in scientific computing
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Jean-Luc Fihey
PhD, Ing., FCAE, Adjunct Professor and Manager Valorisation Research and Innovation, ÉTS (French school of higher education in technology)
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Hubert Girault
Honorary Professor of physical chemistry at EPFL (Lausanne federal polytechnic), Lausanne, Switzerland)
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Saadi
Professor of Social Psychology
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Thierry Massard
Engineer in mechanics and PhD from Ecole Centrale Paris in physics
Former Scientific Director of CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission)
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Maria Nadia Postorino
University Full Professor in Transport Engineering
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Cécile Godé
Full professor in management science, Aix-Marseille University
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Elisabeth Crepon
General Director of ENSTA Paris (French Engineering school)
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Olivier Rey
Research follow at CNRS (French Centre for Scientific Research)
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Brigitte Plateau
General director of INP (Grenoble polytechnic institute)
Associate professor in mathematics
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Christelle Roy
Director of the CNRS Europe and International Division
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Françoise Gaill
Vice president ocean & climate platform
Scientific advisor for Ocean at the CNRS-INEE (Ecology & Environment Institute)
Unifying focuses
Smart naval force, Invulnerable ship, Smart ship, Blue ship, Smart availability, Smart industry.

Open Innovation
Opening up, identifying talented partnerships, inventing new ways of working together, in France and around the world, to accelerate the implementation of new on-board technologies.
