GMV welcomes GEODE project consortium to its headquarters

In mid-June GMV’s headquarters hosted two important events within the GalilEO for EU Defence (GEODE) project: the second meeting of the standardization working group and the progress meeting with the European Commission to review the period between January 2022 and June 2023.

The GEODE project aims to boost the competitiveness of European Union (EU) industry in the highly strategic area of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) for defense purposes and to empower the EU armed forces to use the Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS).

Launched under the umbrella of the European Commission’s European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) and co-funded by Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain, GEODE is supported by EU funding to the amount of nearly €44 million.

The Spanish industrial team – made up of GMV, Indra, and Tecnobit – has top-level responsibility in the project for the complete development of the solution for naval military platforms (GNSS/PRS receiver with security module and controlled reception pattern antenna). Within this team, GMV is responsible for integrating the GNSS/PRS receiver system and, specifically, for developing all the receiver’s signal processing, navigation, and synchronization functions.

The GEODE Standardization Workshop #2 was held on 13 and 14 June and was attended by both the Spanish team and other European partners (Airbus Defence & Space, Antwerp Space N.V., Diehl Defence, Fraunhofer IIS, Leonardo, Safran, TAS-I, TAVS, Telespazio, and FDC). The purpose of this event was to continue the standardization-related activities initiated at the first workshop, held in Paris on 4 and 5 April. It was used to develop a preliminary standard specification intended to establish common minimum characteristics in order to meet the needs of the majority of EU military users in the land, sea, and air domains.

This was followed on 15 and 16 June by a progress meeting, which was attended by members of the European Commission and the Spanish Ministry of Defense. These two days were an opportunity to review where the project is at now, the progress made since it began, and its roadmap for the coming months.

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This project has received funding from the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) under grant agreement No EDIDP-PNTSCC-2019-039-GEODE. This PR reflects only the author's view. The Commission and the EU Member States involved in the Geode project are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains