Current affairs
The Secretary of State for Defence, Agustín Conde, closed out the 5th National Congress on Defence and Security R&D, which was held from 22 to 24 November at the Infantry Academy in Toledo and organised by the Ministry of Defence’s Sub-Directorate General for Planning, Technology and Innovation (SDGPLATIN), in collaboration with Isdefe.
The Congress has turned into a prominent gathering for presenting the results of the most recent technological and scientific work, facilitating the exchange of expertise, ideas and research projects in various areas of knowledge.
On 16 November, the Army’s War College hosted the ceremony for the 55th edition of these awards.
Presiding over the gala was the Minister of Defence, Ms María Dolores de Cospedal, and the Army’s Chief of Staff, General Francisco Javier Varela Salas. Attending the event were the Head of the General Directorate for Armaments and Materiel (DIGAM), Lieutenant General Juan Manuel García Montaño, the Head of the Logistical Support Command, Lieutenant General Ramón Pardo de Santayana and other high-ranking civilian and military officials.
The 22nd International Congress of the Latin American Administrative Centre, on “Reforming the State and Public Administration”, which started on 14 November, concluded today in Madrid.
This past October, the workshop organised by the Defence and Security Defence Technologies Foundation was held at the Ministry of the Interior’s Technology Security Centre (CETSE).
The Head of the Surveillance Public Security Technologies Department, Juan Carlos Iravedra, from Isdefe’s Defence and Security Office, took part in a roundtable on “An Insight into Big Data from Solution Integrators”.
Spain’s Official Institute of Aeronautical Engineers and the Spanish Association of Aeronautical Engineers will organise the 2nd Space Engineering Congress from 22 to 24 November at the headquarters of the Spanish Institute of Engineering.