Put on by the Spanish Association of Defense, Aeronautics and Space Technologies (Asociación Española de Tecnologías de Defensa, Aeronáutica y Espacio: TEDAE) from 26 to 28 February, the plenary meeting of the NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG), held in the Toledo Infantry Academy (Academía de Infantería de Toledo), brought together delegations from 26 allied countries and over twenty Spanish firms.

NIAG, set up in 1968, is a high-level consultative and advisory body of senior industrialists from NATO member countries and is industry’s main liaison body with the Atlantic Alliance.

As part of this meeting, in the industry-centered day of 28 February, GMV was able to show NIAG foreign delegations its capabilities, technologies and state-of-the-art products. GMV displayed its experience in JISR (Joint, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) command and control systems, focusing on its participation in NATO’s MAJIIC project, where GMV is collaborating not only with diverse NATO organizations but also MoDs of alliance members from both sides of the Atlantic. Its range of products includes its inhouse Mobile ISTAR Operating system (called SEISMO after its Spanish initials: Sistema de Explotación ISTAR Móvil), CSD (Coalition Shared Database), Atenea (IRM&CM Tool) and COLLECTOR (ISR sensor simulator), which pools information from many different sources to provide intelligence analysts with the necessary tools for exchanging ISR information and performing workflows that enable interaction throughout all JISR phases.

Also, within the B2B encounters between the companies, the NIAG delegations and accompanying companies from their respective countries, GMV was able to sound out other cooperation arrangements and find out at first hand about future needs pertaining to industrial, technical, economic, managerial and other R&D aspects as well as the defense-related productions of the delegations of member countries.

Some of the leading figures attending the conference were the Director General of Armaments and Material of the Spanish MoD, Lieutenant General Juan Manuel García Montaño; the Director of the Infantry Academy, Colonel Francisco Javier Marcos, and the NIAG President, John Jansen.