Indra to lead Spanish alliance guarding Europe's undersea infrastructure
The project will combine sovereign AI, advanced sensors and unmanned vehicles to constantly monitor the water mass from surface to seabed, making national industry a European security benchmark.
Seven prominent technology firms from France, spearheaded by Indra, converged in Paris on Wednesday to tackle a critical global security concern: safeguarding the ocean floor. At the Euronaval trade fair, industry leaders inked a strategic pact to forge the SIPRIS initiative—a plan aimed at granting Spain technological dominance over underwater cable protection and ongoing surveillance.
Indra will steer the alliance's coordination and oversee the system integration through its Seadef architecture and the sovereign artificial intelligence platform, IndraMind, bolstered by unmanned aerial drones. According to Indra's naval director, Ana Belén Buendía, SIPRIS responds to the pressing requirement to monitor the underwater landscape to bestow Europe with technological independence.
She highlighted that the collaboration between leading Spanish entities will enable the construction of a comprehensive solution and place the national industry at the vanguard of a sector experiencing a strategic upswing.
The partners will deploy a multi-faceted technological network for marine security. SAES will contribute sensors and sonar processing for threat detection, while UTEK and Iqua Robotics, responsible for surface vehicles (USV) and unmanned submarines (UUV) respectively, will manage autonomous control. Aragon Photonics, in partnership with FYLA's underwater optical communications and Sateliot's satellite coverage, will handle anomaly detection via fiber optics.
This alliance sets the stage for a modular, scalable industrial ecosystem, crafted to gradually incorporate additional players, technology centers, and SMEs in the sector.
With field testing commencing immediately, Spain secures a significant victory in the defense industry and joins an exclusive club of nations capable of safeguarding their underwater infrastructure.
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