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On 26 November, as part of the closing ceremonies for the 8th National Congress on Defence and Security R&D, the 2020 Isdefe Antonio Torres DESEi+D R&D Award was presented to the winning entry, which was “Predictive maintenance of ship engines through machine learning”.

The award was presented virtually by the Director of Business Development, Mr Jesús Alonso Martín, and accepted by Mr David Novoa Paradela, of the Universidad de A Coruña’s Centre for Research on Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC), and by Mr Francisco Lamas López, the project’s technical

This conference, organised by the Civil Guard in concert with Isdefe and held online on 25 November, was very well received in terms of participation.

The subjects covered focused on the role of the Civil Guard in the fight against organised crime, and revolved around the goal of understanding how COVID-19 has given rise to new criminal trends in Spain, the EU and around the world.

The conference addressed areas like the importance of international cooperation, the role played by Europol and Interpol, especially in crisis situations like the current one, and the

Isdefe has published its 2019 Annual Report, which describes the company’s activity and results for the 2019 fiscal year, and specifically the organisation’s performance in three areas of sustainability: economic, social and environmental.

The Secretary of State for Defence and President of Isdefe, in her letter introducing this annual report, notes the good results reported by the Company, “a result of the principle of excellence, which guides the performance of our operations and the governance of the organisation”.

The 16th of November marked the start of the Big Things Data & AI Conference Home Edition, which was held online and that, for two days, became one of the most important gatherings in Europe on data analysis, artificial intelligence, the digital transformation and the cloud.

Isdefe engineers Pedro García and Alberto Uceda, both from the Transport and ICT Department, took part in this event, where they presented the results of the ARETA Project, born of their winning idea at the 4^th Edition of Isdefe’s internal programme to gather and manage R&D ideas: “

Donations from Isdefe’s sixteen hundred employees, plus a contribution from the company for 3,000 euros, resulted in a final tally of 8,402 euros raised for “Operation Kilo”.

The drive, which lasted one week, from 16 to 22 November, was held as part of the corporate volunteering initiative that Isdefe organised in concert with the Madrid Food Bank Foundation.

The food crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic continues, and the Foundation’s “Great Food Drive 2020” campaign seeks to forge ahead with the efforts being made to help 190,000 people, including 33,000