To celebrate the launch in 2015 of the Spanish Systems Engineering Platform, backed by Isdefe, and the signing of a partnership agreement between Isdefe and the Norwegian Institute of Systems Engineering this past June 17th, an internal workshop was held in the Isdefe lecture hall to promote the Systems Engineering platform.

The event featured Mr. Jesús Alonso, Director of Business Development at Isdefe, who reviewed the history of Systems Engineering, analysing its tremendous importance to Isdefe and highlighting the company’s indisputable leadership in the discipline.

The 12th edition of Madrid Polytechnic University’s summer courses was launched this month at the school’s administration building.  As a part of this programme, and as in previous years, Isdefe is partnering with the UPM to organise and run the course on: “European Union Space Programmes: Galileo, Copernicus and SSA (Space, Situational Awareness)”, which will be held next 11 and 12 July in Real Sitio de San Ildefonso (La Granja- Segovia)

Isdefe hosted at its headquarters the 4th Workshop on Security Foresight, “Building the Future”, organised by the Civil Guard’s Analysis and Foresight Centre (CAP) in concert with the University Institute for Research on Domestic Security (IUISI). The event took place in the Isdefe Conference Hall on 14, 15 and 16 June.

The workshop began with opening remarks by Isdefe’s Director of Business Development, who underscored the importance of foresight as a discipline in our society. He was followed by the Director of the IUISI, Ms. Fanny Castro-Rial.

The Prorector of the University College of Southeast Norway, Mr. Nils Kristian Bogen, and Isdefe’s Director of Business Development, Mr. Jesús Alonso Martín, signed a Partnership Agreement on June 7th in Konsberg that will allow both organisations, along with the university’s own Norwegian Institute of Systems Engineering (NISE), to carry out joint activities in the area of Systems Engineering.

Isdefe, along with other important companies in the industry, took part yet again this year in the Army Awards, one of which was presented by Isdefe’s Director of Business Development, Mr. Jesús Alonso. 

Yesterday the acting Minister of Defence, Mr. Pedro Morenés Eulate, closed the 2016 Cyberdefence Workshops, organised by the Joint Cyberdefence Command (MCCD). For four days, the workshops were attended by over one thousand visitors and were widely followed live online. The more than 70 presentations and talks can be downloaded in their entirety from the event website, through which more than 300 questions on cyberdefence were channelled. In his closing remarks, the acting Minister underscored how cyberspace is not a virtual location, but a real place that is essential to security.

As part of the conferences scheduled for the UNVEX 2016 Expo, to be held at the Cuatro Vientos Airport in Madrid from May 24 to 26, Carlos Regidor, Head of the Transport Quality and Testing Department at Isdefe, along with INTA R&D engineer María Vega, will give a presentation on May 25 at 3:30 PM on “DEMORPAS, project to integrate RPAs in ATM”, part of the roundtable on “Research and Development”.

Alvaro Manresa, Head of Business Development at Isdefe, will give a talk on “How to Use Industrial Cooperation as an Effective Tool in a Strategic Industrial Development Plan” at the Global Industrial Cooperation Conference, which this year will be held in Toledo from May 22 to 25.

This event, organised by the Global Offset and Countertrade Association (G.O.C.A.), will bring together over 40 government delegations and key international companies in the defence, security and aeronautics sector.

This morning the Head of the Defence Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Fernando García Sánchez, the Head of the Joint Cyberdefence Command, General Carlos Gómez López, and the CEO of Isdefe, Mr. Francisco Quereda Rubio, opened the 2016 Cyberdefence Workshop on military operations in cyberspace.