Collaboration with Aviation Week Network, a Leading Aerospace Company

Began Initiatives to Further Strengthen Services in the Defense Area and Expand into the Aerospace Area

SHIFT Inc. (“SHIFT,” headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan; Masaru Tange, CEO and Representative Director) hereby announces that it has is pleased to announce that it has commenced collaboration with Aviation Week Network (“Aviation Week Network,” headquartered in New York, U.S.; Greg Hamilton, President), a global company and Informa (“Informa,” headquartered in London, U.K.; Stephen A. Carter, CEO), which operates a business intelligence business.

Through this collaboration, SHIFT, which provides highly specialized and scarce consulting services to the domestic defense industry, and Aviation Week Network, a leading business intelligence company in the aerospace and defense fields, will cooperate to advance initiatives such as strengthening the provision of intelligence in the aerospace field, surveys and research, and support for policy-making, thereby contributing to the further development and improved security of the domestic and overseas aerospace industries.

Background of Business Alliance
In FY2022, SHIFT was commissioned for process management projects related to the development of defense-related systems. Since then, we have been providing support to various stakeholders in the domestic defense industry, including the Ministry of Defense and other related ministries and agencies and defense-related companies. In July 2024, we began providing “RMF Support Consulting Services” to equipment manufacturers that are responsible for responding to the Risk Management Framework (RMF) on behalf of the Ministry of Defense. In this way, we are working to provide highly scarce and specialized consulting services in the defense field.

In response to the growing need for consulting services in the defense field against the backdrop of an increase in defense budgets and a shift to security measures that also take into account the perspective of economic security, in April 2025, we plan to establish Japan Aerospace & Defense Consulting Inc. (“JADC,” headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Hideo Mori, President and Representative Director), a consulting company specializing in the domestic defense industry, the Ministry of Defense and other agencies. We are accelerating our efforts to further deepen our technological domain through surveys and research and strengthen our relationships with the public and private sectors.

Informa is a global business intelligence company founded in London, England, in 1998, with operations in more than 30 countries. It provides a vast amount of data that is key to business decision-making for a variety of industries. It also plans and operates business events, such as market research and exhibitions, which are the pillars of marketing, in various countries around the world.

There are group companies in the Informa Group that provide diverse business solutions, and one of them is Aviation Week Network, a leading company in the aerospace field. Since its establishment in 1916, Aviation Week Network has developed business intelligence and planned event businesses in the aerospace and defense sectors and has a strong influence on the aerospace and defense industries around the world.

SHIFT and Aviation Week Network have decided to begin collaboration with the aim of further advancing and specializing in services in the defense industry and strengthening the provision of intelligence to support the domestic and overseas aerospace and defense industries in order to make a full-scale entry into the aerospace industry.

Outlook
Going forward, SHIFT will enhance the quality of its defense industry-specific consulting services by combining its scarcity and highly specialized knowledge of the domestic defense industry with the global aerospace and defense industry intelligence possessed by Aviation Week Network belonging to the Informa Group. After the establishment of JADC, we will work with the company to conduct surveys and support policy making. We will develop and expand services that can flexibly respond to the rapidly changing national security environment and aim to begin providing services to the aerospace industry.

In addition, we will contribute to the further enhancement of intelligence in the domestic defense industry by deploying various intelligence services provided by Aviation Week Network utilizing SHIFT’s public-private relationships in the domestic defense industry.

To protect the safety and security of the domestic and global aerospace industries, SHIFT and Aviation Week Network will work together to strengthen intelligence both at home and abroad and to further evolve the various technologies that support industry.

About Informa
Informa is a global company that leads international events, digital services and academic research. It provides knowledge and opportunities through hundreds of brands and a broad range of services to enable companies and professionals around the world to learn, know, and execute more.

Informa has been listed on the London Stock Exchange and continues to grow stably as a member of FTSE100, with 12,000 employees currently active in 30 countries.

About Aviation Week Network
Aviation Week Network is the largest multimedia information service provider in the aerospace and defense industries, founded in 1916. More than 1.2 million industry participants leverage the latest news, analytics and data solutions to collect strategic decisions and market intelligence. Our strong brands cover areas such as commercial aviation, military and defense, MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul), business aviation and space development. We are widely supported by industry-leading companies and organizations, including aircraft manufacturers, suppliers, airlines, governmental agencies and airport officials.

About SHIFT
SHIFT has continued to grow by building a business foundation through testing and quality-assurance services for customers in a wide range of fields, from mission-critical core systems in the enterprise domain, such as financial institutions, to EC websites and apps and game verifications for smartphones. Today, with the aim of realizing a smart society that eliminates waste, we are supporting the resolution of all business issues related to customers’ IT, from the construction of businesses to the planning, development, operation, security/marketing fields to the promotion of DX.

About Japan Aerospace & Defense Consulting
Japan Aerospace & Defense Consulting is a defense consultancy that SHIFT plans to establish on April 1, 2025. We aim to become a consulting company specializing in the defense industry, targeting the domestic defense industry and the Ministry of Defense, etc., which is unprecedented in Japan, by deepening our technological domain through our survey and research business and developing a business of dispatching specialist personnel to equipment manufacturing companies.