Page 8 - Memoria 2021

Presentation

Santiago Bolívar Piñeiro
1 Letter to shareholders - Chairman of the Board of Directors

Dear international uncertainty and the national provisional,
we had the consequences stemming from COVID-19,
Shareholders so Hisdesat has continued to implement the necessary
measures to continue navigating at the same speed,
with the flexibility of working on-site and remotely, while
Once again I have the honor of writing the introduction maintaining the operability at the control centers of
to this report, which summarizes something as important the ground segments. The most current and changing
as what Hisdesat Servicios Estratégicos S.A. has felt regulation was also applied to prevent spreading the
and experienced in the year 2021. And I reiterate “felt disease with good results. We have navigated these
and experienced”, just like the previous year, because, in waters well as required by our known port, to provide and
spite of the exceptional circumstances experienced in the guarantee the communications and intelligence satellites
year 2020, which we don’t need to explain, with the loss that the Ministry of Defense, Army and Navy need today
of human lives being the worst and final consequence, it and in the future, with the best cost-efficiency binomial
still affects our lives and the way in which we do our jobs. and maintaining the feasibility of Hisdesat.
Therefore, first, I would like to extend a heartfelt embrace
to those, who themselves or their loved ones, have suffered Thus, in the SATCOM area, we continued providing satellite
the consequences of this disease. services to our primary users, the Ministry of Defense and
other State organizations, who have expressed their full
In previous years I summarized this event with a satisfaction, as have the rest of our national and foreign
deserved “well done”, using the expression “Bravo Zulu” customers, among which we have the Portuguese Armed
that is well known by all, and last year I said that it must Forces and different agencies of the United States.
be presented using larger banners due to the goals and
milestones that had been achieved. This year we need In this area and due to its importance for the deployed
to once again present these large banners as we have Armed Forces personnel, it is worth noting that in the
once again reached noteworthy strategic goals and good ‘Support network and security for military personnel
financial results, thus achieving the company’s goals at deployed in Operational Areas”, (SAPZO is the Spanish
the highest level. acronym), we have continued expanding areas, bases and
ships, and especially, note that it has been well accepted
This has been achieved under extraordinary circumstances, by users and by the MINISDEF, who sees in this program
that, although mildly, are still present, and which, believe a way to safely improve the quality of life and raise the
it or not, affects us all, which significantly increases the morale of its troops.
importance of our achievements. Those who under
extraordinary circumstances achieve the extraordinary In terms of the process of building the new SpainSat NGI
deserve double the credit. I hereby extend a hard worked and NGII satellites, we must say with satisfaction that it is
and well deserved “Bravo Zulu” to personnel from officially on schedule, with all milestones being achieved
Hisdesat and the companies that have contributed to these to date. And this in spite of the complications experienced
achievements. in 2021, of the large amount of R&D&i expended on the
satellites and the difficulty in procuring some components.
The harsh weather experienced in 2020 has been Certain delays at subsystem level are being managed in
abated, but its large sea waves remain. Added to the order to minimize the impact on the overall schedule.

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