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On 26 March from 10 am to noon, a conference will be held, organised by the Defence Staff (EMACON) and the General Directorate of Armaments and Materiel (DGAM), in concert with ISDEFE, to discuss the national priorities in terms of the European Defence Fund (EDF).
This virtual conference is part of a series of initiatives launched by the Ministry of Defence to announce the first EDF call for 2021.
This conference will cover the following topics:
March 15 is “World Consumer Rights Day”, and Isdefe is organising several actions and activities in an effort to further the sustainable development goals of the 2030 Agenda.
The company is working in several areas to advance its commitment to sustainability. Various organisational units in the company’s different departments are taking proactive steps to achieve the stated goals. These include the CSR Unit, the Resources Unit, the Safety Department, which manages the ISO 14001 Environmental System, the Contracts Department and others. Not to mention the support of the entire
International Women’s Day is being celebrated worldwide on 8 March, under the theme “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”.
Isdefe, as a socially responsible company, is carrying out various activities throughout the year as part of its commitment to the 2030 Agenda.
As a signatory member of the Global Compact, Isdefe is committed to making progress to comply with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), including “Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”.
The new Deep Space Station 56 (DSS-56) antenna went into operation in January at the NASA Deep Space Communications Center (MDSCC) and has played a key role in communicating with the Mars Perseverance Rover.
DSS-56 established a link with the Mars Odyssey-M01O orbiter, which provided a communications relay during the critical descent phase of the new rover, along with two other orbiters, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter-MRO and the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN - MAVEN, which also connected to antennas DSS-65 and 54, also at the Robledo complex, thus providing a primary
SDG Ambition is an initiative of the Global Compact whose goal is to set ambitious corporate targets and accelerate the integration of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) into core business management.
This is a pioneering programme that applies a new methodology that will help companies to modify their operations and interactions with stakeholders. It relies on process design to ensure that sustainable development initiatives and goals are hardwired into the corporate strategy in an effort to have a substantial impact on the SDG.