Indra demonstrates its global leadership of technological systems for transport, defence and digital transformation before the President of the Spanish Government

Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Government of Spain, and Alexander De Croo, the Belgian Prime Minister, visited Indra’s headquarters today. Company Chairman Marc Murtra and CEOs Ignacio Mataix and Cristina Ruiz showed them some of its most pioneering technological systems that have enabled it to become the leading Spanish technology company and one of the main global firms in the field, positioning it with great excellent prospects for success in enhancing its growth and profitability strategy and consolidating the current process of returning to the creation and maintenance of high-value employment.

Indra’s commitment to innovation is one of the cornerstones of this position. The company won the National Innovation Award in 2020 and it heads numerous national and European RDI initiatives, it plays an important role in the digitalization of a wide range of sectors and drives the promotion of innovation in other companies.

Indra’s growth prospects for 2021 have resulted in nearly 3,000 new hires of technological staff in Spain alone so far this year, confirming its firm commitment to the creation of high-value employment related to innovation and technology, while, in the three years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 7,000 young professionals began their careers at Indra in Spain. More than 80% of the company’s professionals are engineers, graduates or highly-qualified technicians.

Pedro Sánchez expressed his confidence in the company’s new phase, highlighting the solid foundations it can rely on to enhance a growth strategy that will allow it to play a leading role in a high-potential global industry at a time of recovery when the Next Generation EU funds will drive projects and investments in many of the company’s divisions.

During their visit to Indra’s facilities, Mr Sánchez and Mr De Croo witnessed some examples of the company’s global leadership in the Air Traffic, Defence and Security, Digital Transformation and Smart Cities markets.

Indra is a world leader in the development of the most cutting-edge Air Traffic technological systems, as demonstrated by it being recently selected as the company responsible for digitalizing the network management of Eurocontrol, the European Union’s network manager, which will reinforce the safety, punctuality and efficiency of air transport in Europe and reduce CO2 emissions. Indra has implemented its technology for management, communication, navigation and surveillance systems in 160 countries. 85% of flights worldwide are managed at some point by Indra’s technology, which, in turn, has enabled more than 100 million safe landings at nearly 1,400 airports.

Its innovation in Air Traffic is also reflected in the recent creation, in partnership with Enaire, of Startical, which will deploy a constellation of small satellites to facilitate the provision of surveillance and communication services, particularly in remote and oceanic areas that are not covered by current air navigation systems based on terrestrial infrastructures, thanks to a pioneering technological solution around the world.

Indra’s managers listed the company’s developments of Defence and Security technological systems (radars, electronic defence, command and control, mission systems, etc.) that make the company the only one from Spain that appears among the top hundred Defence companies in the world and the second-ranked supplier of avionics systems for the Eurofighter program, with a high degree of international recognition for the development of critical projects for the national defence of the countries for which it works, due to its participation in major European programs and others within the framework of NATO.

This position has been reinforced by its appointment as the national industrial coordinator of the European FCAS (Future Combat Air System) defence program, the largest joint European defence program to date and the most ambitious in terms of technological development. Mr Sánchez and Mr De Croo learned more about Indra’s commitment to act as a driving force for Spanish industry within this program for both the defence and the civil sectors, given its importance in the fields of technological and industrial development and the creation of highly-qualified jobs. 

A leader in digitalization in Spain

The President of the Government of Spain and the Belgian Prime Minister also saw how Minsait, an Indra company, has undergone an intensive and ongoing evolutionary process since 2015, enabling it to consolidate its position as the leading Spanish company in digital transformation consultancy and Information Technologies and the main player in ensuring digitalization occurs in Spain. The company works with all the segments of the country’s industrial activity and has provided the Spanish government agencies with high-value services for citizens.

This is thanks to its range of high-impact value propositions based on end-to-end solutions with significant segmentation, enabling its customers from all industries and government agencies to achieve tangible impacts and, in turn, leave a positive footprint from the standpoint of sustainability.

Upon this basis, Minsait is ready to respond to the revolution that’s about to take place in technological services for companies and institutions in areas such as cybersecurity, a market in which it has strengthened its leadership through the acquisition of the company SIA, the world of payments, in which it’s an international leader through its Minsait Payments subsidiary, as well as strategies focused on the Cloud and data exploitation and the radical transformation of industries that are intensive in physical assets, combining technologies such as the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence.

Major projects in Belgium 

During the visit, the Belgian Prime Minister took special interest in the ambitious project carried out by Minsait in the city of Antwerp within the framework of the European Select for Cities initiative, linked to the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program funded by the European Union. This project involved the design and development of the key European smart city management platform, which has been piloted in Antwerp and Helsinki. Whereas in the Finnish capital the primary objective was to reduce polluting emissions and improve air quality, in the case of Antwerp the aims were to improve the satisfaction of its citizens and visitors with a better range of public services and to promote local commerce. The platform is available to any European city that wishes to further its smart urban transformation process.

More than 500 million people in 150 municipalities around the world are seeing an improvement in their quality of life thanks to Minsait’s Smart Cities and Territories management and Indra’s sustainable mobility and transport infrastructure management solutions.

In the field of Brussels-based community organizations, Mr De Croo also learned about Minsait’s leadership of the consortium selected by the European Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA) for the provision of software testing and validation services for eu-LISA’s suite of Justice and Home Affairs core applications and systems to facilitate a more modern, efficient and secure European Union border management model.

About Indra

Indra (www.indracompany.com) is one of the leading global technology and consulting companies and the technological partner for the core business operations of its customers world-wide. It is a world-leader in providing proprietary solutions in specific segments in Transport and Defence markets, and a leading firm in Digital Transformation Consultancy and Information Technologies in Spain and Latin America through its affiliate Minsait. Its business model is based on a comprehensive range of proprietary products, with a high-value, end-to-end focus and a high innovation component. At the end of the 2020 financial year, Indra achieved revenue of 3.043 billion euros, had nearly 48,000 employees, a local presence in 46 countries and business operations in over 140 countries.