Should prove interesting ! The Group of French Land and Airland Defense and Security Industries (GICAT) is a French professional association created in 1978 which brings together 354 members 2 (large groups, mid-sized companies, small and medium-sized companies) which cover a wide spectrum of industrial, research, service and advisory activities for the benefit of national and international military and civilian forces involved in land or airland security or defense.
GICAT represents the interests of French land and airland Defense and Security manufacturers around four objectives 3 :
- Organize dialogue between institutions and industrialists in the sector
- Offer services to its members to promote their development in France and internationally
- Create an environment favorable to exchanges between manufacturers
- Promote the know-how and image of the sector’s industry
GICAT, formerly "Grouping of Industries concerned with Land Defense equipment", was created in 1978 at the instigation of land weapons industrialists in order to organize the defense of the interests of the profession and to ensure the representativeness of the air-land sector vis--vis public authorities.
GICAT is a founding member of the Defense Industries Council (CIDEF), which was created in 1990. Herv Guillou , the CEO of DCNS took over in
to Marwan Lahoud at the head of CIDEF 4 . Since 2011, GICAT has expanded its activities to the security sector: it modified its statutes to become the “Grouping of French Land and Airland Defense and Security Industries”. Today, around 60% of GICAT members, from large groups to small businesses, are involved in security, or more than a hundred members 5 .
In
, GICAT launched an accelerator of French start-ups, Generate , to help them understand the logic of the world of defense and security 6 .
Made Bloomberg too !
https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-09-26/signature-of-a-three-party-mou-on-the-commercialization-of-novacium-s-hydrogen-production-system