The 3rd Space Engineering Congress was held from 24 to 27 October in a virtual format that featured over one thousand professionals in the sector from twenty different countries.
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Raquel Pastor Pastor, an engineer in the Defence and Security Department’s Office of Surveillance Technologies for Public Safety, was tasked with leading Isdefe’s involvement in the Cyberintelligence-OSINT module of the C1b3rWall Academy, a training activity held as part of project C1b3rWall.
The C1b3rWall project is spearheaded by Spain’s National Police. Created in 2018, the first Digital Security and Cyberintelligence Congress (C1b3rWall) was held in June of last year at the National Police Academy in Ávila (Spain), and was organised by the National Police and the Institute
José Pablo Haro, coordinator of the satellite navigation group (GNSS) in the Navigation, Satellite and Surveillance Office of Isdefe’s Transport and ICT Department, took part in a panel held on 21 October on “European Deployment Developments”, which dealt with the main programmes and the anticipated evolution of the air navigation infrastructure in Europe.
Alongside him in this virtual panel were Ramón Raposo, Execution Manager, SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM), and Paul Bosman, Head of ATM Infrastructure Division, EUROCONTROL. The panel was moderated by Jorge Pereira, Head of
The Association for the Promotion of Strategic Technologies and Industries (APTIE) organised the virtual technical workshop on “Toward an R&D Model in the Ministry of the Interior”, which was held on 5 November.
The conference, which was sponsored by the Ministry of the Interior, featured an agenda that included a study of the current status of R&D in the Ministry of the Interior, the management of short- and medium-term technologies of interest to law enforcement and the armed forces, and the new R&D outlook in Security and Defence nationally and in Europe.
The European Union is drafting a new law to create the Union’s Space Programme and the European Union’s Agency for the Space Programme.
In light of this, ISDEFE INTA and INECO have signed an agreement to jointly develop projects under the framework that is expected to result from this new law.