On Tuesday, 27 December , a Spanish Air Force cargo plane left for Mali with 68 laptop computers aboard donated by Isdefe.

The Operations Command took advantage of the visit by the Minister of Defence, María Dolores de Cospedal, to the international missions of the Armed Forces stationed in Senegal and Mali to transport in the aircraft’s hold the laptops donated by Isdefe through the Operations Command. 

After an international bidding process, the NATO agency responsible for implementing, maintaining and supporting the NCIA’s (NATO Communications and Information Agency) information and communications systems has once again selected IBM Netherlands and Isdefe to help manage its communications programmes through the PMIC (Programme Management and Integration Capability) Project.

The 10th STIC CCN-CERT Workshop was held on 13 and 14 November at Kinépolis, Ciudad de la Imagen, to celebrate “Ten years enhancing national cybersecurity”. 

The first edition of the ICT Security Workshop took place in November 2007, one year after the National Centre for Cryptology (CCN) created the Emergency Response Team (CCN-CERT). One decade later, cyberspace security and the protection of information are an area of priority for governments, corporations and society at large. 

  On 12 December at 7:30 pm, the 2016 “Virgen del Carmen” Navy Awards was be presented at an event hold in the Navy headquarters building. The purpose of these awards, which were created 77 years ago, in 1939, is to disseminate naval culture.

This event brought together officials, institutions and professionals in the industry and was featured by the Minister of Defence and the Navy Chief of Staff.

On 12 December at 5:30 pm, the diplomas and honours will be presented to the inaugural graduating class of the Master’s programme at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s (ETSIAE) School of Aeronautical and Space Engineering.

The Spanish Network of Robotics and Mechatronics (REDROM) and the Spanish Society for Robotics Research and Development are organising a workshop on “Robotics and unmanned systems for security applications”.  This gathering will take place at the School of Industrial Engineers in Madrid on 2 December. 

The goal of this forum is to share R&D proposals and programmes in the area of robotics and security. Government organisations, academia, research centres and security companies, among many others, will present their applications and advances in this area.

A new edition of the International Security Workshop will be held on 29 and 30 November 2016. It is being organised by Spain’s National Police and Civil Guard, in cooperation with TEDAE, the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Intelligence Centre (CITCO) and the Technology Security Centre (CETSE).

This year’s theme is “International Terrorism. Threats and Responses”. This event offers a forum where police experts and security industry professionals will debate the phenomenon of international terrorism.

Today, Isdefe is holding the 3rd Congress of the Association of Spanish Graduates in Security and Defence, under the slogan “Sharing (visions of) Security”. 

Our Director of Business Development, Mr Jesús Alonso Martín, will give the opening address at this gathering, which will be inaugurated by the Honourable Josep Piqué, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and member of the Honorary Council of ADESyD.

Today at 12:00, there will be an event to name the Honorary Members of AEME at the Army’s War School. This is a significant event for the Association, one that will be attended by various civilian and military officials, as well as by the members. Isdefe collaborates at this event along with the Ministry of Defence, Tecnove and other institutions. 

On 23 November, the agency that will be deciding on the organisational structure of the A400M Programme, consisting of top officials from the nations that are part of the Programme contract, met at the Isdefe headquarters.