The subdelegate of the Government in Lugo, Isabel Rodríguez, today valued at the Center for Airborne Research of Rozas (CIAR) the 10.9 million euros invested by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the CDTI, the new innovative solutions in Galicia, placing Lugo at the forefront within the aeospace sector of Europe. “The Government of Pedro Sánchez is allocating historical investments within its commitment to promote the transformation of the industrial and economic model of Galicia” stressed the subdelegate who pointed out that these new prototypes “are an example of the importance of public-private collaboration with innovative companies to enhance internationalization and consolidate Lugo as a leader in the segment of unmanned aerial vehicles”.
Isabel Rodríguez stressed that the Government “continues its line of work, promoting the creation of innovative knowledge that is transferred to society and that all that innovation also becomes training and international leadership.” Thus, thanks to the funds of the Government Galicia will now have the most advanced technology in Europe in the simulation of O-Space drone traffic management environments, including interaction with ATM environments.
The Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the CDTI, continues with new deliveries of pre-commercial public purchase prototypes initiated in 2021. Under the agreement between the CDTI and the Xunta de Galicia, the prototypes of new innovative solutions have just been delivered whose objective is to provide an interoperable and open system for strategic and tactical contingency management, operational security management, air traffic management in UTM operations (unmanned traffic management) and its integration with ATM (air traffic management). The first vice-president of the Xunta, Francisco Conde, also participated in the event.
The innovative solutions were developed by Indra Sistemas and Boeing Aerospace Spain and had a total project budget of 10.90 million euros, of which 20% was approached directly by the CDTI and the remaining 80% was cofinanced with ERDF funds 2014-2020. In the development teams, the projects involved subcontractors such as Enaire, Airbus, Hada Catec, Creída, Aslogic, UPM, Gradiant, Centum, ITG, Everis, Cesga or University of Vigo.
In particular, the projects under development bring together technologically innovative proposals that:
• They will contain elements that will analyse the impact of conditions on communications, traffic, navigation systems, climatology or terrain.
• They will address the existing shortcomings in the purchase related to the provision of tools that allow regulators and economic operators to advance the certification and standardization processes, while at the same time aiming to reduce costs and facilitate the experimentation of new solutions.
• They will provide the necessary capabilities to generate simulation scenarios in advanced air mobility environments where aerial vehicles of diverse capabilities coexist.
• They will allow us to evaluate not only how the flow of O-space traffic in urban environments can be managed, but also how the different systems and services can be managed. These projects continue with the tangible phases of the purchase of R&D services from the CDTI, focused on covering real needs of public administrations and favoring their technological improvement with developments that do not yet exist in the purchased.
The CDTI’s Percommercial Public Procurement program promotes the permanence of technological, industrial and scientific innovation in the Spanish territory and that the transfer of knowledge and public-private collaboration serve to promote the innovative ecosystem and socioeconomic development.