- Catec has been working in Galicia for years, linked to the Rozas Business Park (Castro de Rei).
- Lorenzana announced that the Xunta will soon unveil new partnership agreements involving technology centers together with large companies and Galician SMEs.
- She recalled that the Galician Government continues to maintain an open grant program for certifications, allowing companies from other sectors to become accredited to participate in the defense market.
Santiago de Compostela, April 14, 2026
The Regional Minister for Economy and Industry, María Jesús Lorenzana, highlighted today the commitment being made to Galicia by Spain’s leading aerospace and defense technology center, the Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies (Catec), which she described as a clear example of the current potential of these sectors within the region.
Accompanied by the Secretary General for Industry and Energy Development, Nicolás Vázquez, Lorenzana visited today in Santiago de Compostela the headquarters that this center operates in Galicia, where it has been working for years in connection with the Rozas Business Park (Castro de Rei) on flagship projects promoted there by major industry companies such as Telespazio, Avincis, Airbus, Aertec-Tecnobit, and Indra, among others. Galicia is, together with Andalusia and Madrid, one of the five locations Catec has across Spain.
“Since 2015, when we began the work in Rozas under what was then the Civil UAVs Initiative (CUI), which has now evolved into the current Defense, Security and Aerospace Strategy, Catec has been an important collaborating technology center and partner alongside other Galician companies that are now delivering world-class services, technologies, and projects at an international level,” she stated.
Within the framework of this strategy, which will mobilize €900 million, the minister announced that the Xunta will soon reveal new partnership agreements involving technology centers, large corporations, and Galician SMEs “to continue advancing an economic sector that has enormous potential in Galicia,” she noted.
The sector is focused on the development of dual-use technologies, which can be applied both commercially and in defense, and which may be of interest to companies in industries such as automotive, shipbuilding, ICT, and others. For this reason, Lorenzana recalled that the Xunta continues to keep open a grant program for certifications, enabling companies from other sectors to obtain accreditation to participate in the defense market.
