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At the initial workshop on Maintenance Reliability, Mr Gonzalo Santamaría Freire, Head of the Army Maintenance Unit of Isdefe’s Consulting and Strategic Process Management Office, presented the work that he carried out alongside Isdefe engineer Mr Ernesto Palomar Moreno on reliability and maintenance in designing the hosting scheme for the Galileo Security Monitoring Centre (GSMC).

On 3 December, the Ministry of Defence, through the General Sub-Directorate of Industrial Inspection, Regulation and Strategy, in concert with the AEC Committee on Defence Industries and Services, organised the 1st Gathering of National Defence Sector Industries as Isdefe’s headquarters. 

The gathering accomplished its goal of advertising the Strategy of the PECAL/AQAP Certification Scheme in response to the challenge of Industry 4.0, and provided a summary of the activities of the Combined Committee on Defence-Armament and Materiel

On 28 November at the headquarters of the Academy of Military Arts and Sciences (ACAMI), Isdefe’s CEO, Mr Francisco Quereda, and the president of ACAMI, Lieutenant General (R) Jaime Domínguez Buj, signed an agreement to have Isdefe donate computer equipment to ACAMI for the Academy to use.

The computer equipment consists of eight laptops, two desktop computers and ten 17-inch monitors, as well as other computer accessories that were no longer being used by Isdefe staff due to being obsolete. As a result of this donation, and once checked by

Under Sustainable Development Goal 10, the Spanish Network Platform of the United Nations Global Compact, COMparte, has published the corporate volunteering programme that Isdefe has been promoting with the Masnatur Foundation for one decade.

This Project involves providing leisure activities to persons with disabilities, and in the years since its creation, has consisted of visits to the Getafe and Cuatro Vientos air bases and renting a space to hold its Christmas Day celebration.

Mr José Manuel Hesse, Isdefe’s Director of Operations, presented the “Air Force’s Environmental Excellence in Maintenance Award” to Captain Iván González López, at the 12th edition of the Air Force’s Excellence in Maintenance Awards.

This year saw Isdefe partner yet again with these awards, their presentation ceremony held at the Air Force’s Assembly Hall on 28 November.