On 17 September, as representative of the aeronautics industry, GMV’s CEO Jesús Serrano took part in the working meeting held in Madrid between the Spanish Association of Defense, Security, Aeronautics and Space Association (Asociación Española de Tecnologías de Defensa, Seguridad, Aeronáutica y Espacio: TEDAE), Airbus and the main company members of TEDAE, plus representatives of trade unions and employers’ associations.

The meeting reaffirmed industry support for the initiatives agreed by the Spanish Government and Airbus at the end of last July. The initiatives will preserve technological and industrial capabilities while reinforcing the sector and its auxiliary industries and minimizing COVID-19’s job impact in aeronautics, defense and space companies in Spain.

Under the agreement signed with Airbus the Spanish Government reaffirms the crucial importance of aeronautics as a strategic sector, accounting for 7.3% of the industrial GDP and a turnover of €13.040 billion. Its business, moreover, has doubled in the last ten years, generating over 150,000 jobs, including 57,618 direct jobs in over 696 productive centers.

After over three decades of technological innovation in the aeronautics sector, GMV has won itself pole position in the main programs both at home and abroad.

GMV is a company of proven skills in the aeronautics sector supplying products and rendering services for the main aeronautics manufacturers, for air-navigation-service providers and regulatory authorities like ENAIRE, ICAO and EUROCONTROL. GMV takes part in the main aeronautics programs, providing engineering services and developing groundbreaking systems and subsystems, complying with the most stringent quality standards. In particular, GMV is a trailblazer in the development of approach and landing systems based on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS); it is also one of the few European companies boasting a complete knowledge of cutting-edge avionics architectures, testbeds and associated standards.

The company’s strategy, based on capitalization of its acquired experience and building up customer loyalty, has managed to up its profile continuously, winning the company a place among the main sector players and enabling it to keep up a sustained growth in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic and the structural crisis likely to take place in upcoming years.

From left to right: Pedro Luis Hojas, Secretary General of the Industry Federation of the trade-union UGT; Antonio Lasaga, Human Resources Manager of Airbus in Spain; Antonio Góméz Guillamón, CEO of Aertec Solutions; Jesús Serrano, CEO of GMV; Manuel Huertas, President of Airbus Operations in Spain; Fernando Abril- Martorell, President of Indra.