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Aerospacee-GEOS presents CLEOS
The geo-information revolution
A digital marketplace that makes use of innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to revolutionise the traditional approach to geo-information and to focus on the customer.This is the objective... more
ConferencesPolitecnico di Milano wins the first edition of the "Leonardo Drone Contest"
The digital award ceremony
The Politecnico di Milano won the first edition of the “Leonardo Drone Contest. An Open Innovation Challenge", a competition launched by Leonardo in collaboration with six Italian universities to promote t... more
ConferencesLeonardo at "CybertechLive Europe 2020"
The event takes place this morning in Rome
Now in its 5th edition, this year's event is on-line more
Fair and showsLeonardo technological partner of the "Cortina 2021"
For safety of the Alpine World Ski Championships
Leonardo has announced its selection as the Technical Partner of the "Cortina 2021 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships", to be held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Belluno in February 2021. The partnership agreement,... more
IndustryCounter-drone technology of Leonardo delivered to RAF
To support the research and development programme Synergia
Leonardo in the UK has delivered the first of four complete baseline counter-drone systems to the Royal Air Force (RAF) in support of the next stage of its Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) research... more
DefenseDevelopment of radar for the RAF Typhoon aircraft
A GBP 317m contract
A £317m contract to develop the next generation of radar for the Royal Air Force's (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon airplanes will sustain hundreds of jobs and develop technologies for the UK’s Future Combat Ai... more
IndustryLeonardo: collaboration to strengthen organizations’ security posture
Partnership with CrowdStrike
Leonardo, a global high-technology company, announced yesterday a partnership with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, a reference in cloud-delivered endpoint protection. The collaboration will make the CrowdStrike... more
Science and technologyLeonardo enhances the debate on growth, research and innovation
For the development of the “Country system”
Through the combination of research and technology, with industry and sustainability and specific attention to young people, #InnovarePerCrescere, took place today at the Leonardo plant in Pomigliano... more
Science and technologyGermany adopts the ESSOR HDR WF
It adds to the existing partners
a4ESSOR SAS (Alliance for ESSOR), a multi-national joint venture which is developing European Secure SoftwareDefined Radio (SDR) technology, has been awarded a contract amendment by OCCAR (Organisation... more
Science and technologyLeonardo drives the “digital transformation” of key suppliers
Over forty SMEs coming from 12 Italian regions
Leonardo, in partnership with Confindustria’s Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH), launches a new initiative focused on the issues of Industry 4.0 and cyber security dedicated to its key suppliers, who are p... more
Science and technologyLeonardo-Alea: agreement for multimedia broadband solutions
For the public security and professional markets
Leonardo has signed an agreement with Alea, a company specialising in mission critical communication software, for the joint development of multimedia broadband solutions for the public security and professional... more
Science and technologyLeonardo rewards graduate thesis in mechanical engineering
To analyse and predict the level of stress faced by pilots and road users
Leonardo’s commitment to the development of young talent and promotion of the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) are at the heart of the Leonardo Committee’s Graduation Awa... more
Science and technologyLeonardo wins National Award for Innovation
With its environmentalprotection project in the aeronautical sector
Leonardo has won the most prestigious Italian award dedicated toinnovation, the National Award for Innovation. The initiative, promoted by the Cotec Foundation,annually studies the innovative projects... more
Science and technologyLeonardo and development of the aeronautical sector in Southern Italy
The AeroTech Campus established, a new hub for technological innovation
The establishment of the AeroTech Campus, the new HUB for thetechnological innovation of the Leonardo Aerostructures Division, was announced today at the Pomigliano d’Arco plant (Naples). The Italian P... more
Science and technologyContract to upgrade NATO's electronic warfare training equipment
Signed by Leonardo for a worth around 180 million euros
Leonardo has signed a contract worth approximately €180M to provide new electronic warfare training equipment for the NATO Joint Electronic Warfare Core Staff (JEWCS). The company was selected in an i... more
Science and technologyFondazione Leonardo–Civiltà delle Macchine is established
To bridge humanistic and industrial cultures -PHOTO GALLERY
Giovanni De Gennaro is the Honorary President of the Fondazione and Lorenzo Fiori has been appointed General Manager more
Science and technology"Innovation Day" debuts at the City of Science in Naples (Italy)
A journey through the most advanced technologies, including new trends and global challenges - ATTACHMENT
As innovation continues to take great strides forward, so too does the public’s awareness of how new technology is affecting the economy, the world of work and people’s daily lives. Reflecting on these cha... more
Science and technologyLeonardo: graphene can be used for sixth generation aircraft
"Unlimited" capacity of the material discovered in 2010
The possible applications in the aerospace field of graphene are being studied by all countries with an advanced industry, as in the case of China which used it to increase the passive protection capabilities... more
Science and technologyTAS-Swri: MoU to cooperate on Stratobus development
Established joint working group
Thales Alenia Space (TAS), the joint-venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), a major player in the market for satellites, scientific spacecraft and orbital infrastructures as well as the developer... more
Science and technologyLeonardo launches its "2018 Innovation Award"
It will also include participation of international universities
Continuous technological innovation in pursuit of sustainability. It is the Leonardo Innovation Award, the initiative that aims to promote debate on the central value of innovation as a lever for economic... more
Science and technologyLeonardo with the Italian AMI to imagine the logistics of the future
The industry took part in a two-day event
Leonardo took part in the first “Airathon” dedicated to the application of disruptive technologies in the field of logistics, organised by the Italian Air Force and by Ernst&Young (EY) on the 5th and 6th... more
Science and technologyTAS signs partnership agreement
With SCNTPL Polish technology center
Joint work between the partners reaching back several years, bolstered by the creation of Thales Alenia Space in Poland in 2015 more
Science and technologyLeonardo in the field of the Stem disciplines
As an educational partner, supports the National Geographic Festival of Sciences
Scientists, philosophers, innovators, journalists, researchers and artists take part in the National Geographic Festival of Sciences that take places in Rome from 16 to 22 April. Leonardo, a high-tech... more
Science and technologyAgreement to secure critical infrastructures
Signed between Leonardo and Nozomi Networks
Critical and industrial infrastructures and related control systems (Industrial Control Systems) are increasingly exposed to cyber attacks and therefore require greater levels of detection to develop more... more
Science and technologyLeonardo invests in the next generation of talent
rewarding a young scientist for their thesis on computer vision
Leonardo is committed to promoting scientific citizenship and the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), part of its wider objective to develop a worldwide culture of innovation,... more
Science and technologyNew technologies across competitiveness, sustainability among winning projects of "2017 Innovation Award"
Milan, Italy - Leonardo: an investment of 10,000 employees and €1.4 billion each year in research and development
With the goal of investing in youth and research, rewarding the ideas and creativity of scholars and Leonardo employees, and an opportunity to highlight the promotion of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering... more
Science and technologyMathematics made simple: the partnership establishes interactive exposition
MIlan, Italy - Between the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan and Leonardo
If man did not know about math, he would not rise a single foot off the ground, Galileo Galilei said a few centuries ago. In the new interactive Mathematics Lab, developed by the National Museum of Science... more
Science and technologyDefense. ESSOR programme continues into the development of OC1
Rome, Italy - A further step forward in the collaboration among the European terrestrial forces
The joint-venture a4ESSOR (Alliance for ESSOR) has been awarded a contract by OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d’ARmement) to start a new phase of the ESSOR (European Secure Sof... more
Science and technologyLeonardo DRS completes acquisition of Daylight Solutions
Arlington, Usa - To develop and supply of quantum cascade laser based products and technology
Leonardo announced today that its US subsidiary, Leonardo DRS, completed the acquisition of Daylight Solutions, Inc., a reference developer and supplier of quantum cascade laser based products and technology. The... more
Science and technologyCooperation reinforced for "Coflight", new generation Flight Data Processing System designed for the "SES"
Rome, Italy - Dsna, Enav, Leonardo and Thales; a six year contract
The French and Italian major Air Navigation Service providers respectively DSNA (Direction de Services de la Navigation Aérienne) and ENAV (Italian air navigation service provider), alongside industrial... more
Science and technologyThe "Leonardo 2016 Innovation Awards": among the projects robots able to perform finishing in final production stage of helicopter rotors
Rome, Italy - Training internships and cash prizes for the winning university students
The "Leonardo 2016 Innovation Awards" have, once again been flooded with submissions, and remain one of the most awaited events for exploring the new frontiers of high technology. Almost 700 projects... more
Science and technologyLeonardo-Finmeccanica at the centre of the European cyber security debate
Rome, Italy - “Cybertech Europe 2016” to take place in Rome on 29 September
Leonardo-Finmeccanica will propose a new national organization dedicated to information security, to Industry at the international forum "Cybertech Europe 2016" which takes place in Rome on 29 September.... more
Science and technologyAircraft and transport. Finmeccanica and the Politecnico of Milan join forces on technology and innovation
Milan, Italy - Special attention will also be paid to developing joint initiatives within major European programmes including Horizon 2020 to Clean Sky 2
Research, development, innovation and training are the focus of the “Innovation Hub” project framework agreement that Finmeccanica and the Politecnico of Milan have signed that defines a number of sha... more
Science and technologyMonitoring deforestation in Brazil goes to the Italian COSMO-SkyMed satellites
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - e-GEOS with Geoambiente won the tender called by the Amazon Protection Management Centre
e-GEOS (80% Finmeccanica-Telespazio, 20% ASI) has been awarded -through the Brazilian company Geoambiente- a tender held by CENSIPAM (Centro Gestor e Operacional do Sistema de Proteçao da Amazonia) to... more
Science and technology"Fly Your Ideas" by Airbus: the winner idea is Brazilian and the team will be in Le Bourget next Monday afternoon
Toulouse, France - Levar wins the international initiative with a luggage loading and unloading system for airplane cargo
A team of students from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have claimed the top prize of €30,000 as winners of Airbus "Fly Your Ideas 2013". Team Levar won with their proposal for a luggage loading an... more
Science and technologyAeroporti di Roma: wi-fi initiative to all passengers passing through the "Leonardo da Vinci"
Rome, Italy - From today and for 30 free minutes
From April 8, "Leonardo da Vinci" airport will be offering all passengers passing through the airport 30 free minutes of internet access. Passengers can connect to the Wi-Fi network using laptop computers,... more
Science and technologyFinmeccanica sponsors the Conference “Science 400 years after Galileo Galilei. The value and ethical complexity of contemporary scientific-technical research"
Rome, Italy - Yesterday in Rome at the Complesso Monumentale S. Spirito in Sassia
As part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, Finmeccanica yesterday hosted a Conference entitled "Science 400 years after Galileo Galilei. The value and ethical complexity of contemporary scientific-technical... more
Science and technologyFinmeccanica: SELEX GALILEO signs technology transfer MOU with KACST
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - "King Abdulaziz" City for Science and Technology
SELEX GALILEO, a Finmeccanica company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). This MOU will see the company develop a working relationship... more
Science and technologyFinmeccanica: Fulbright scolarship for a two-year master's course in the USA
Rome, Italy - The deadline for applications is on May 5th, 2008
Building one's future, especially for young people, is probably one of the greatest adventures that life can offer. There are few more exciting things than imagining one's life and then setting out to... more
Science and technologyThe UAV that flaps its wings
Paris, France - From Leonardo Da Vinci to orthopters
French scientists of the "Pierre and Marie Curie" university of Paris have created an algorithm reproducing the study of birds evolution and have built a flying machine prototype. The research, carried... more
Science and technologyFulbright-Finmeccanica scholarship is launched
Rome, Italy - The initiative coincides with the 60th anniversary of both the "Finanziaria Meccanica" foundation
Finmeccanica is sponsoring a scholarship award together with the prestigious "Fulbright Commission" aimed at graduates in science and technology. The official announcement has been made last Friday at... more
Science and technologyFinmeccanica re-opens selection process for its “FHINK” Masters Programme
Rome, Italy - The deadline for the filing of the application is next June 15th
After the success of the first master’s programme in International Business Engineering (FHINK), Finmeccanica has now started the enrolment process for 2007-2008. The objective of the programme is to f... more
Science and technologyAlitalia: flight Rome-Munich returns for technical reasons
Rome, Italy - The security of flight has not been prejudiced
Yesterday afternoon, an Embraer 145 of Alitalia directed to Munich with 31 passengers on board has been obligated to return in the Fiumicino Airport half hour after the take off for technical reasons,... more
Science and technologyDelays in the luggages delivery at Fiumicino airport for a strike by AdR Handling
Rome, Italy - 200 employees of the airport services society are holding a meeting in these hours
It’s taking place in these hours at "leonardo da Vinci" airport of Fiumicino an assembly of 200 AdR Handling employees, to protest against the selling of the airport service society to the Spanish Fcc, f... more
Science and technologyRecord traffic in the Roman air stations for the Middle Summer departures
Rome, Italy - The data have been communicated by AdR
AdR, society that manages the two Roman airports of Fiumicino and Ciampino has made known the data about the passengers traffic in the two airfields regarding the period between August 12 and 14. With... more
Science and technologyPassengers record at Rome-Fiumicino's airport: 111,000 on Sunday, August 6
Rome, Italy - Last year's 106,000 people record has been surpassed
Rome-Fiumicino airport reached its absolute record on Sunday, August 6: in concomitance with Summer holidays exodus, almost 111,000 passengers passed at "Leonardo da Vinci" departing or arriving. Last... more
Science and technologyAt Fiumicino the longer waits on the flights to Sharm el Sheikh
Rome, Italy - In the long week-end of passion there have been delays up to 4 hours cumulated by the charter directed to the Red Sea localities
It seems as it’s an endless discomfort-list those that have been afforded by the travellers during the last July week-end (see also AVIONEWS). In the Roman air terminal of Fiumicino the major delays w... more
Science and technologyBig drug seizure at "Leonardo da Vinci" airport of Rome
Rome, Italy - Cocaine dissolved in rum
Nine kilogrammes of cocaine have been seized yesterday at the Roman air station of Fiumicino by the men of the Italian Police. Five people were arrested, 4 Dominicans and one Italian, who found an ingenious... more
Science and technologyA veterinary island at Fiumicino airport
Rome, Italy - For imported animals control
Dogs, cats, squirrels, ferrets, fishes, birds, snakes, beefs, swine and horses have been stationed since yesterday at "Leonardo da Vinci" Airport in Rome, in the veterinary island realized by "Aeroporti... more
Science and technologyProdi: Malpensa and Fiumicino are not in competition
Milan, Italy - New investments for transports are necessary
"Malpensa and Fiumicino are not in competition". It was said yesterday in Milan by the Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, who was in Lombardy capital for a manifestation to support the Union coalition’s candidate a... more