EUSPA awards GMV the contract to develop Galileo's Emergency aid Satellite Services

The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) has awarded GMV a FWC contract to deliver new Galileo functionalities under EmeRgency Alerting System (ERAS), allowing EUSPA to provide new Emergency related services, namely the Emergency Warning Satellite System(EWSS), SAR/Remote Beacon Activation and SAR/Two-Way Communications Emergency. The four-year contract, worth around 6 million euros, will enable significant progress in Europe's response capabilities to natural and man-made disasters. The GMV led industrial organization includes Ineco, ALTEN Spain, and Kineton as subcontractors.

The new ERAS system will in the first place, allow Member States National Civil Protection Authorities for on demand broadcast of Emergency Warning messages to be sent directly to the population in areas at risk or already affected by a natural or provoked disaster, which will be transmitted directly by the Galileo satellites to smartphones or any other device capable of receiving signals from these satellites. The alert messages will include information related to the type of risk, its severity, the area affected, as well as the expected time of onset, its duration and guidance to react. The system will allow national civil protection authorities to generate and validate the content of the Alert through dedicated web-interface.