Indra Will Modernise Ukraine's Air Traffic Management Systems

Indra Systems, UKSATSE, the Ukrainian air traffic services state-owned enterprise, has chosen Indra to design and start the new control centre of Dnipropetrovsk that will be in charge of controlling the air space of the south of Ukraine. The contract, for an amount of 10.2 million euros, has an execution period of 18 months, and includes the functional design of a new building of 5,000 square metres and the implementation of the traffic management systems.  
 
The Spanish IT company will implement last generation systems that fulfil Eurontrol's specifications, which will permit Ukraine to make part of the group of the most advanced countries in Europe regarding air traffic management systems. Indra's proposal has been chosen in an international tendering called by the Ukrainian government in collaboration with BERD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), which finances the project, and has competed with Italian group Alenia and French group Thales.  
 
Among the most valued aspects of the Spanish offering outstands the graphic presentation and the functionality of the data entering systems that allow the controllers to optimise flight profiles, reduce waiting times and speed up decision-making in a zone with heavy air traffic. Other advantage of Indra's proposal is that the election facilitates the processing of the information proceeding from the near control centre of Rostov, in Russia, also equipped with Indra's systems. In Russia, the Spanish company, has also implemented its systems in the Moscow control centre.  
 
This contract ratifies the confidence of the Ukrainian air navigation authorities and BERD in Indra, once the company has just started operating the two radars that it hired in July 2001, in what was Indra's first project in the country. Then, the Spanish company won a similar tender and obtained the contract, for an amount of nearly 3 million euros, which made it the sole Spanish technology company financed by the BERD for projects in Eastern Europe, one of its priority growth markets for the next years.