USAIRE Student Awards is an international competition, designed by USAIRE, which challenge students worldwide to reshape the future of Aerospace and Defense industry. Major forces like disruptive innovations, new business models and geopolitical upheaval are transforming the Aerospace and Defense industry at an unprecedented rate. In 2006, the intent of Michel Dubarry, President of Rolls-Royce international in Europe and North Africa, then President of USAIRE, was to give students an opportunity to awake their spirit of innovation and to get closer from Aerospace and Defense stakeholders.