Indra leads Spanish participation in European Defence Fund projects: it joins 12 initiatives and coordinates one of them

Indra is once again one of the European companies with the greatest involvement in the R&D projects of the European Defence Fund (EDF) and the company that heads Spain’s participation in it. The company has been selected to take part in 12 major projects addressing the development of critical defence technologies for the continent’s sovereignty and strategic autonomy, and it will also lead the SCEPTER project, of the utmost importance in improving the situational awareness of armed forces in the air, naval and land domains.

For the fourth year in a row, Indra has achieved an excellent result in the European Defence Fund call announced by the European Commission on April 30, while it has succeeded in consolidating its standing as one of the main European defence companies and reinforcing its role as a driving force of Spanish industry.

The company also demonstrates its strong multi-domain orientation and the key role it plays in ensuring the superiority of armies in future operational theaters, as well as its leadership and commitment to promoting collaborative technological-industrial defense programs at the European level. These projects improve and increase technological capabilities, operational in the future, of high value for the interoperability of European armies in their deterrence and threat response functions.

As part of the latest EDF call, Indra will develop systems for all kinds of land, naval and air platforms and work on the air defence systems of the future and simulation, space, communication, radar, electronic warfare, cyber defence and command and control technologies.

More specifically, the company will lead the SCEPTER project, which seeks to combine the functions of radar, electronic defence systems and communications with cognitive capabilities so as to improve situational awareness on land, at sea and in the air.

Other projects involving Indra include ENGRT II (Next Generation Rotorcraft), CITADEL RANGE (Next Generation Cyber Range), PRECISE (Automated Structural Modeling for Effect Prediction), FASETT 2 (Future Mid-Sized Tactical Cargo Aircraft), AURIGA (Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle), AI-WASP (AI-Based Multifunctional Aperture and Transceiver), NEREUS (System of Systems Naval Platforms), SENTINEL (Energy Systems for Military Camps), BATTLEVERSE (Bridging Reality Gaps/Operational Simulation), EPW2 (Secure Waveform for SATCOM) and ARGOS (multi-source satellite image analysis).

These R&D initiatives come in the wake of projects stemming from previous editions of the EDF and preparatory programs on which Indra has been working, bringing the total number of initiatives to 76, 10 of which it coordinates. Specifically, the company has led or is leading major projects that include the development of the future European command and control system as part of the ESC2 project and its continuation (EC2), the development of avionics systems within NG MIMA, pioneering cyber defence projects such as ECYSAP, its ECYSAP EYE evolution and the EU GUARDIAN project, multi-function systems as part of the CROWN initiative, which it will now continue through SCEPTER, and electronic attack systems within REACT and REACT II.