Defense and Security R&D

The Polytechnic University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and the Spanish Strategic Studies Institute (Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos: IEEE), under the aegis of the Spanish MoD, have put on the fifth summer course "Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Defense and Security", held in the Higher Center for National Defense Studies (Centro superior de Estudios de la Defensa Nacional: CESEDEN).

The three-day course addressed the strategic lines of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data R&D as applied to defense technology and infrastructure.

Manuel Pérez Cortés, GMV's General Manager of Defense and Security, gave the lecture on "Intelligent data processing in defense systems" within the industry-focused block of lectures. He spoke about GMV's AI activity, not only in security systems for FRONTEX, like ISR, but also in command and control systems for the Ministry of Defense. He stressed the need for explicability of AI-based solutions, especially in critical systems.

GMV's current activities in this field include its work under the European Defense Agency on the study of "Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Decision Making in C4ISR – ABIDE", a project applying Big Data and Artificial Intelligence techniques to Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, with the aim of enhancing their performance and capabilities.

The program wound up with a guided tour of the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) in Robledo de Chavela.

This course comes under the «General Engineer Antonio Remón y Zarco del Valle» Chair of Defense Studies, officially approved by the Spanish government for teaching and research and any other related activities of interest.