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In this work we discuss current trends driving Aircraft and Automotive Systems Architectures and their impacts on CMMI ® Organizational Structures. This includes trends as: 1) pos-globalization and regionalization; 2) the formation of knowledge oligopolies; 3) commonality, standardization and even synergy (of components, tools, development process, certification agents, standards); 4) reuse and scalability, 5) synergy of knowledge and tools convergence; 6) cost pressure and innovation speed; and 7) environmental and safety issues; 8) abundance of new technologies versus scarcity of skilled manpower to apply them. Based on that we summarize their impacts on: 1) the aircraft and automot ive systems needs and their system requirements, 2) the system development and certification standards (SAE-AR