Author name: SkyDec

Thanks to our Polish agent THESTA, SkyDec will be virtually present at the upcoming BALT MILITARY EXPO 2021 fair. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s edition of the fair will be held ONLINE.

Registration at the fair as a visitor is free at the link:

https://live.intermare-southbaltic.eu/register/

In the pass selection window, please select VISITOR PASS and register on the fair platform.
Instructions on how to register and how to use the platform can be found at the link:

https://live.intermare-southbaltic.eu/faq/

Fair opening hours:
• April 20, 2021 (Tuesday) 10.00-17.00
• April 21, 2021 (Wednesday) 10.00-17.00
• April 22, 2021 (Thursday) 10.00-15.00

We cordially invite you to our virtual stand.

The situation has now significantly improved and you have been instrumental in this, owing to your outstanding engineering and testing expertise in this area.

I wanted to reach out and thank you personally, as without your recent support, we would not be in the position we are in now where we have been able to overcome obstacles.

As it takes two to tango: thank you Drumgrange, for the open mind and smooth cooperation!

SkyDec is proud to be selected as one of the subcontractors in the European funded GEODE program. GEODE will establish the framework for developing the Galileo PRS military user segment.

The setting up of this framework starts today already with the involvement of 30 companies and organisations from 14 EU Member States: Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Romania. This is one of the most ambitious Defence cooperation projects launched under the umbrella of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) of the European Commission.

GEODE is the biggest Galileo application development project ever launched.

For our representation in the Polish region, SkyDec started a cooperation with the company Thesta since 2018 . Thesta is a company targeting at the demanding defense market, managed by people with a rich experience in the maritime (offshore and naval) sector. After the three years, we can now confirm that this cooperation turned out to be very fruitful.

Thanks to their hard work and extensive network, we find ourselves at a high level position in the Polish region. Together we supplied and integrated our Military navigation equipment for several naval programs. We are looking forward to further explore this fruitful cooperation.

Like we all experience, a quality management systems need to be updated and checked frequently. Updates and checks are performed on the fly, and on a daily basis. To keep certification, the yearly external audit by TÜV Rheinland was planned in December.

This year, we consulted Quattor P to prepare for the audit. After examination of our quality system, which has our ERP as a backbone, their lead auditor confirmed to be ready for the external audit.

Finally the audit by TÜV took place, which passed without any flaws.

As per November, SkyDec was re-audited to check and update the quality system to meet with ISO 9001:2015. To ensure a safe and smooth transition from ISO 9001:2008 into ISO 9001:2015 external support was called in from NEDCON.

After several meetings and extensive processing, an internal audit showed a good result. This was confirmed during the external audit performed by TÜV Rheinland and established in our ISO 9001:2015 certificate.

Together with Robust Navigation Solutions-Netherlands partners CGI, Nedaero and S[&]T, SkyDec will be at NEDS 2019, organised by NIDV. For a (further) getting acquainted with our products and services, you are most welcome at stand D3.1.

The NIDV Defence and Security Exhibition (NEDS) 2019 is the largest exclusive event for the Defence and Security Industry in the Benelux region. This year, NEDS will be held at Ahoy Rotterdam on 28 November. The annual NIDV event is being organised for the 31st time and is well known as the place where industry and the government meet each other. It is where more than 2,500 visitors from the Ministry of Defence, the government, industry and international representatives come together to network and establish new contacts.

“NEDS is the place where all relevant players in the Defence and Security Industry come together.”

From 3-6 September SkyDec was present as exhibitor at MSPO, the 27th International Defence Industry Exhibition MSPO in Kielce Poland, thanks to the great work done by our Polish exclusive partner Thesta who arranged our stand, all accommodations and very fruitful meetings.

The Defence Industry Expo in Targi Kielce has gone down in history as the exhibition which brought 610 companies from 31 countries, including 303 Polish companies; the expo hosted 58 official foreign delegations from 49 countries, 30.5 thousand guests from around the world joined the MSPO 2019.

We look back at a successful event!

As very first guests in our new premises in Bodegraven (even not fully furnished yet) we were most happy to welcome a delegation representing HAVELSAN for testing the DGPS feature of our NGNS07 MIL GPS host system.

HAVELSAN is one of the most important solution providers of the Turkish Armed Forces. The solutions developed by HAVELSAN are competitive in the world market as well. Among these solutions, the Command Control and Combat Systems developed for naval platforms have helped HAVELSAN become a significant player in the global market.

SkyDec supplied several types of MIL GPS host systems to HAVELSAN over the years, for a variety of Naval programs.
During this particular test, proper functioning of the DGPS feature was confirmed successfully. The unit under test was also programmed with latest release software.

We thank HAVELSAN for their constructive contribution during this meeting and the high level cooperation as business partners in general.

SkyDec, in cooperation with TNO, won the Dutch Defence Innovation Game 2017. During Purple Nectar, three remaining competitors were judged by a board of representatives from Industry, Defence and Science sectors. MUCS (Military Underwater Combat Smartphone) was considered excelling on all points.

MUCS increases safety, efficiency and success rate of divers during covert special operation. Supported by the Dutch Defence Organization, we will further develop MUCS into a working concept in 2018.

At the NIDV symposium (Rotterdam AHOY, 30 November) MUCS was presented again during the Defence Innovation Game Winner’s speech, for a bigger and international audience. At that same event, SkyDec, TNO and the Netherlands Defence Organization brought out a toast on the cooperation for the development of an underwater combat communication and navigation system for the Special Forces (MUCS).