ALIENOR is the Defence innovation cluster set up by the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) in conjunction with the Defence Innovation Agency (AID) to capture and accelerate civilian innovations for the benefit of the armed forces or defence programmes.fense Innovation Agency (AID) to capture and accelerate civilian innovations for the benefit of the armed forces or armament programmes. The aim of ALIENOR is to detect, guide and test innovations from mainly regional industrial and academic players, in order to develop new solutions that can deliver performance gains and technological breakthroughs for weapons systems in the aeronautics and space sectors.