With increasing investments in defense in many regions of the world, Embraer's KC390 airplane is ready to dominate the military mid-size transport airplane market worldwide, given its proven low-operational costs and high technological capabilities. Adding to that, Embraer has a large corp of highly capable young aeronatical-military engineers from the Instituto Militar de Aeronáutica (ITA), while adding to its current industrial expertise the partnership with Swedish SAAB, which includes the on-going tranference of technology on the manufacturing the Grippen fighters in Embraer's plants in Brazil.