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Next Monday, 25 March at 12:30, in the Isdefe assembly hall, the 7th National Congress on Defence and Security R&D (2019m DESEi+d) will take place. Also at that event, the ISDEFE R&D book awards will be presented, containing the ten finalists from the previous Congress.

The presentation will feature Ms María Amparo Valcarce García, Director General of Military Recruitment and Training (DIGEREM), and Admiral Santiago Ramón González Gómez, Director General of Armaments and Materiel for the Ministry of Defence, who will open and close the event, respectively, along with

From 21 to 27 February 2019, Isdefe’s headquarters hosted the 25th meeting of the S4 Group (SG/2 Shareable Software Suite) Programme Review. Isdefe’s Director of Development, Mr Jesús Alonso Martin, offered words of welcome to the various representatives and to the Land Capability Group of the NATO Army Armaments Group.

The meeting was attended by a total of 65 officials representing 18 countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and the United States. 

On 5 March, the Ministry of the Interior’s Centre for Security Technologies (CETSE) hosted the “International Security Workshops”, organised by the Spanish Association of Technology Defence, Security, Aerospace and Space Companies (TEDAE), in partnership with the Civil Guard and National Police.

Under the slogan “Technology Solutions for Security”, these workshops revolved around four round tables, where topics like protecting critical infrastructures, RPAS as a surveillance system, RPAS as a threat and the technological approach to security were discussed.

David Martin Borreguero, an engineer in Isdefe’s Consulting and Process Management Office, took part in the 3rd “Consultation Forum for Sustainable Energy in the Defence and Security Sector, Phase II”, as a moderator in the working group Sub-WG2: Energy Efficiency. 

The event, a European Commission initiative managed by the European Defence Agency (EDA), was held in Nicosia on 26 and 27 February.

The Institute of Politics and Governance at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) organised a seminar on  “Operational strategies and actions against drug trafficking” in which J. Antonio Díaz Bermúdez, Head of Isdefe’s Border Protection Department, gave a presentation on “Spanish Experiences on Technologies and Surveillance Systems for Border Control”, and Mariano Gómez Plaza, Isdefe consultant on surveillance strategies for public safety, spoke about “Technologies Applied to Intelligence-Led Policing Against Organized Crime”.