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With an eye on the future fighter jets for the Portuguese Air Force, the Eurofighter programme met this Thursday in Lisbon with national companies to identify new collaboration opportunities. The meeting follows the memorandum of understanding signed last October with the AED Cluster. The first Eurofighter Industry Day was promoted by Airbus Defence and Space.
The Indra Group, through its division dedicated to the aerospace sector, will join NOVA Aerospace in Tires. The partnership aims to 'promote joint programmes for applied research, advanced training, technological development, and the integration of students and researchers into industrial projects and infrastructure'. 'It is with great satisfaction that we collaborate with NOVA Aerospace on this initiative, which...'
OGMA has signed a memorandum of understanding for a 'strategic partnership' with Axiscades Technologies, a technology solutions company based in India. Expanding maintenance services and 'exploring business opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa' are among the objectives of this partnership. 'OGMA signed a memorandum of understanding to ...
The Brazilian company Embraer, the world's third-largest aircraft manufacturer, closed 2025 with a record order backlog valued at US$31.6 billion (about €26.26 billion), the company said. The firm, which controls OGMA, sold five KC-390s to Portugal. In the fourth quarter of the year, “Embraer delivered ...”
Tekever will help 'strengthen France's space autonomy'. The national company joins the consortium selected for the DESIR project — led by Loft Orbital with participation from Thales Alenia Space — by the French government to develop a sovereign synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system, with a total allocation of 50 million ...
Guimarães has been chosen as the site for the presentation of Portugal’s national space strategy, a symbolic starting point for mayor Ricardo Araújo’s plan to turn the municipality — home to the Guimarães Space Hub — into an Iberian leader in the aerospace sector. Local authorities are pursuing rehabilitation of facilities, investment and economic activation to attract industry, create jobs and build a skills pipeline. Realising that ambition will require sustained funding, coordination with national and international partners, and targeted policies to translate strategy into industrial growth rather than a one‑off showcase.
Ivo Vieira, CEO of Lusospace — Portugal’s first homegrown space company — explains on the podcast 'O Futuro do Futuro' how the country’s Aerospace Engineering courses continue to post record-breaking averages and how that strong educational pipeline is producing talent the national space sector can recruit across roles, not only engineers. He stresses that the quality of graduates makes recruitment easier for emerging Portuguese space firms, signalling a maturing ecosystem linking higher education and industry needs.
Miguel Araújo, director-general of Mobinov and a promoter of SCARIA, argues for accelerating industrial convergence between the automotive and aerospace sectors. He says both industries face common structural challenges and share many critical solutions, and highlights the role of initiatives like the third and final SCARIA call to foster startup creation and industrial development in rural areas. The piece calls for intensified collaboration across clusters, supply chains and innovation ecosystems to leverage shared technologies and strengthen regional industrial capacity.
Cuatrecasas advised Airbus in structuring, negotiating and completing the joint venture with Critical Software to establish a new company – Critical FlyTech – which will be dedicated to the development of integrated software and services for aerospace applications intended for Airbus and its affiliates. The joint venture is held 51% ...
France’s Airbus is beefing up its investment in Portugal. The company will enlarge its factory in Santo Tirso by 5,500sqm, the equivalent of a 30% expansion of its industrial space The post Airbus increases investment in Santo Tirso operations appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The Minister of National Defence and the president of the Brazilian company Embraer signed a letter of intent today for the opening of a Super Tucano aircraft factory in Beja, during a ceremony marking the delivery of the first five out of a total of 12 aircraft of this model. "Today we take this significant step. We did not acquire ...
