The WB Group and the Łukasiewicz investigation Network signed a strategical partnership agreement that opens a fresh chapter in the Polish arms sector. Cooperation will focus on the improvement of unmanned systems, rocket technologies and modern ammunition and electronics. Both have been working together on joint projects for years, and the agreement is to open a fresh phase of this cooperation.
PIAP - huntsman integrated with WB Group production tower.
Management Board Łukasiewicz investigation Network concluded a strategical partnership agreement with 3 companies belonging to WB Groups: MindMade, WB Electronics and Polish Ammunition. These entities correspond to areas identified as the main directions of future cooperation, including unmanned systems, rocket technologies, ammunition and electronics.
“Today’s agreement is simply a kind of culmination of existing cooperation and at the same time increases its rank, allowing to extend activities to many another areas,” said Piotr Wojciechowski, president of the WB Group. He recalled that both entities have been implementing joint projects for a long time, as illustrated by the integration of Hunter's robot, developed by Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements PIAP (member of the Łukasiewicz investigation Network), with the unmanned AREX ZMU-03 tower.
Joint strategy
The president of the WB Group stressed that in their activities both entities are guided by the same values: innovation, velocity of action and agility, which are crucial for effective functioning in the defence sector. “These are besides to be our projects: fast, agile and inventive, but at the same time economical, in order not to make unnecessary costs,” Wojciechowski said.
The agreement is besides part of the late presented improvement strategy of the Łukasiewicz investigation Network. "This partnership is an crucial step for us in implementing the strategy of the full network. As a result, we want to gain the position of investigation and improvement entity of the first choice for companies of the Polish arms sector – stated Hubert Cichocki, president of the Network.
He besides stressed that as early as next year, around 40 percent of the projects conducted by the Network will be related to the defence industry. Łukasiewicz besides focuses on the improvement of artificial intelligence – an area which the WB Group has been dealing with for many years. The Presidents of both entities have declared that in this area besides they see a broad field of cooperation.
Management of Polish Ammunition, MindMade and Center of Łukasiewicz.
Business opportunities
– We besides see a crucial business chance for our organization. The defence manufacture is 1 of the sectors with the highest strength of expenditure and investment in development, explained Cichocki. The president of the Network assumes that the concentration of competences and projects will make additional effects: fresh projects, including joint initiatives that will translate into fresh products, fresh business lines and even fresh business models. “This could have a crucial impact on the Polish arms manufacture and its impact on the economy in the next 10 years,” said Cichocki.
He added that the manufacture has the chance to accomplish specified an impact both through crucial military spending by the state budget and the improvement of technological competences and the construction of fresh capacities. This will translate into the creation of fresh ventures, not only technologically advanced, but besides efficient and productive from a business point of view.
Łukasiewicz investigation Network Institutes will focus on improvement work related to the modernisation of key weapons systems, including subsequent generations circulating Warmate ammunition and integrated Identification strategy Gladius. In parallel, investigation initiatives are planned including unmanned technologies, modern electronics and the improvement of advanced materials. An crucial ammunition technology task has besides been completed recently, an crucial part of the activities carried out.
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