Indra attends LAAD to showcase its state-of-the-art technologies to strengthen Security and Defence in Brazil and the rest of Latin America

Indra will showcase at LAAD 25, Latin America's largest and most important defence and security fair, to be held in Brazil from April 1 to 4, its state-of-the-art solutions capable of overcoming the main defence-related challenges faced by the countries in the region.

The protection of its airspace and borders to halt illegal flights, unlawful activities and drug trafficking, illegal immigration control, the surveillance of its coasts to protect its fishing grounds and natural resources, and the protection of its jungles and large rivers are just some of the challenges addressed by Indra’s state-of-the-art technology.

Over the course of four days at LAAD 25, the company will showcase its most advanced air defence systems, including the Airdef command and control system, the most sophisticated one to be found on the market at the moment, and its Lanza family of radars, upon which leading armies rely.

It will also showcase its Crow anti-drone system, which has been widely tested in real land and naval missions and designed to detect, analyze and identify any drones flying in the area under protection, countering them with soft and hard kill measures.

In response to the growing strategic component of the Space environment, at LAAD 25 Indra will also unveil the capabilities of its space object detection radar, a system with the latest technology operated by the Spanish Air and Space Force and recently acquired by the German Air Force. This radar can help to accurately identify the situational awareness of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO), supporting the safe operation of orbiting satellites and facilitating secure access to Space.

Through Indra Space, the group’s space subsidiary, it will soon become one of the few companies in the world with the capacity to provide end-to-end coverage of the entire value chain of the space sector, from the construction of satellites to the provision of Earth observation and extremely secure communications services, the latter of which are vital in any current-day military operation. In partnership with the ENAIRE air navigation service provider, Indra Group has also created the Startical company, which will deploy a constellation comprising over 200 satellites to provide global air navigation services, particularly in oceanic and remote areas.

With regard to coastal and land border surveillance, Indra will showcase its iMARE command and control system, which integrates cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence-based technologies and provides an additional layer of efficiency when it comes to integrating and exploiting the information gathered by the sensors and radars deployed to monitor movements along entire coastlines, as well as other sources of information such as satellite observation and open source consulting. The company also boasts advanced solutions to strengthen the underwater protection of ports and maritime borders by combining acoustic detection, sonar, robots and advanced command and control. At present, the company’s systems cover the surveillance of over 5,000 kilometers of coastline in countries such as Latvia, Portugal, Spain and Hong Kong.

Indra is modernizing platforms and systems in all the defence domains (land, sea, air, space and cyberspace). It’s for this reason that Indra will attend LAAD 25 to showcase the highly advanced electronic defence systems it has implemented in the ships and submarines of navies around the world. These include the mission systems, sensors and situational awareness systems with which it’s digitizing the most modern battleships and tanks. As well as the mission and self-protection systems that some of the new generation helicopters and aircraft are flying with. Furthermore, as a leader and trailblazer of the development of new cyber defence systems, it will unveil the most advanced cyber situational awareness solutions currently in existence. It will also showcase solutions designed to protect all kinds of critical infrastructures, covering both their physical and cyber dimensions.

Key technology for Brazil

With a presence in ten Latin American countries and a team comprising over 16,000 professionals in the region, Indra maintains close relationships with the Armed Forces of these countries, as well as the companies and research centers of each nation it operates in, helping to enhance the technological capabilities of the industrial fabric wherever it’s based.

As a result of this collaboration, Indra recently launched an advanced In-Service Support Center (ISSC) in Colombia to provide support throughout the life cycles of the land, naval and air systems of the different armies. It’s now working on implementing another center of this kind in Uruguay, while it has also undertaken ambitious air defence projects in different countries in the region.

It has maintained a significant presence in Brazil for over three decades. It employs 7,000 professionals and runs offices in the main cities in the country. The company has supplied and modernized the secondary radars (MSSR) of the Air Force, helped develop the SISCOMIS military satellite communications system of its Armed Forces, and provided the H225 flight simulator for Airbus/Helibras that trains the country’s military pilots and the vessel traffic management systems for the port of Vitória. Moreover, through Minsait, another of Indra Group’s subsidiaries, it has worked on projects key to the technological transformation of all the sectors in Brazil.