With the increasing competition including:

• the concentration of major customers to fewer system suppliers,
• the shorter development cycles and
• the stronger role of new suppliers from emerging markets

a future-proof profiling of the Saxon aerospace industry ought to be achieved within a short period of time.

The Saxon aerospace industry met these requirements in April 2008 with the establishment of the joint initiative "ASIS - Aerospace Initiative Saxony". ASIS represents the interests of the aerospace industry in Saxony, with the aim of strengthening Saxony as an industrial site .

Its initiator is the Saxon State Ministry of Economy, Labour and Transportation. Project promotors are the Competence Center Aerospace Technology Saxony / Thuringia (LRT) and GWT-TUD GmbH.