📋 Tender Overview
At the closing of the sixth version of the Innovapolinav public innovation fair, at the Naval Polytechnic Academy, a new distribution was launched that will depend on the General Directorate of Navy Services (DGSA). ), this is the Navy Technological Innovation Center (CITA).
With the presence of the Commander in Chief of the Navy, Admiral Juan Andrés De La Maza, members of the Naval High Command, civil and military guests, the discussion called 'Innovation challenges with impact in Chile' was held.
Prior to this moment, the Director General of the Navy Services, Rear Admiral Leonardo Chávez, announced this new challenge that the Institution is beginning, “the important thing about this is that we are continuing with a task that was started a long time ago, before the first Innovapolinav. We have a great accumulation of our own Institutional technological development, which has allowed us to grow in this innovation daily, we are convinced that we had to take one more step and this becomes a Research Center that in some way will be a node where people can access through the Academy, and be able to present problems that have some solution in the military field and can then be incorporated into the civil field.”
This center represents a significant effort to strengthen ties between the science, technology, knowledge and innovation ecosystem and the Chilean Navy. The CITA will be in charge of managing and coordinating the creation of scientific and technical knowledge in areas of interest, generating innovative technological solutions for the Navy and also the National Defense, working in collaboration with national and international entities of the CTCI ecosystem.
Its inauguration will be in March 2024, and it already has the facilities and its first staff, which will be headed by Captain Francisco Mackay, who currently works as Deputy Director of the Naval Polytechnic Academy.
