How Leonardo will move on Pnrr and cloud
What the CEO of Leonardo, Alessandro Profumo, said during the parliamentary hearing on Pnrr, cloud and more
A solid, flexible and secure digital infrastructure for the relaunch of the country.
It is the “common denominator” identified by Leonardo during the hearing on the Recovery plan in the Joint Budget and Production Activities Committees of the Chamber.
"Over time, Leonardo has developed the capabilities to give the country a structured support" and "its strategy is perfectly in line" with the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Pnrr), the CEO of the defense giant said at a hearing Alessandro Profumo.
Profumo then indicated the programmatic areas in which Leonardo with his know-how can contribute to the growth of the country. With particular attention to the importance of connectivity throughout the territory. For the CEO, "Leonardo's Cloud Computing platform, integrated into the National Cloud, becomes the primary tool for modernizing and relaunching the country".
All the details on what the former Finmeccanica's number one said about the national recovery and resilience plan (Pnrr).
THE PROJECTS IDENTIFIED BY LEONARDO FOR THE PNRR
"Leonardo has the skills to help solve structural problems and face the challenges of today and tomorrow," Profumo said in a hearing in the Chamber. Leonardo's number one then cited a series of problems in the country: from infrastructure to healthcare, from bureaucracy to innovation and in particular “the lack of a solid and secure digital infrastructure”.
For this reason, "Leonardo has currently identified 5 macro-areas in which it believes it can make a decisive contribution to the modernization of the country, which can be well developed and compatible with the best possible use of Next generation Eu funds".
These areas, Profumo explained, are: global monitoring, monitoring on a continuous basis and securing the country's critical infrastructures; smart cities, increasing the level of security and resilience of cities by promoting sustainable mobility and direct communication with citizens; health, contributing to the development of an efficient and interconnected health system; digital Pa, favoring the provision of digital public services that are easy to use, efficient and secure; and logistics, contributing to the development of connected, automated and secure multimodal logistics.
INVOLVING THE ENTIRE NATIONAL CHAIN
“To carry out this ambitious plan, Leonardo is proud to be able to put its skills at the service of the country by mobilizing the entire national supply chain”, underlined Profumo.
“We wanted to outline areas with specific projects. But these are not projects that we already had in our operational plan that we intend to be financed with the NRP ”, said Leonardo's number one. Adding: "We have developed projects that we believe are at the service of the country to increase the potential for growth and give future generations the space for development and capacity that we have a duty to give them".
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NATIONAL CLOUD FOR THE MODERNIZATION OF THE COUNTRY
For Profumo, "Leonardo has in its DNA the skills developed to enable additional advanced services to its business, in line with the strategic plan and in support of the country".
Therefore "Leonardo's skills can be put at the service of the country, integrating into a transversal Technological Platform, enabled by a National Cloud".
Not surprisingly, the development of a national cloud is already part of the PNRR, or rather in the draft of 125 pages, on the table of the Council of Ministers of last 7 December .
The cost of the project by the Minister for Innovation Paola Pisano is 2.51 billion euros. The tender should start by the end of 2021, with completion expected by September 2022.
"The development of a national cloud will take place in parallel and in synergy with the European project Gaia-X , promoted by Germany and France and in which Italy intends to play a leading role" reads the draft of the NRP. ( Here the in-depth study by Start on what the government on the public administration cloud combines) .
LEONARDO'S CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORM
And this is where Leonardo comes into play, with its cloud platform.
"Leonardo's Cloud Computing platform, integrated in the National Cloud, becomes the primary tool for modernizing and relaunching the country for a large public-private program that makes Italy digitally secure and sovereign, allowing it to join the European Cloud Gaia X ; you create business and jobs; favor the change of management model of entire national sectors; integrate Leonardo's technological capabilities by connecting to Davinci-1 ".
The former Finmeccanica is investing heavily in the implementation of Cloud solutions integrated with cyber security services.
THE PARTNERSHIP WITH ARUBA
In fact, the recent partnership with Aruba, the largest Italian cloud provider and leader in data center services, web hosting, e-mail, PEC and domain registration, fits into this perspective.
The new offer stems from the integration of Leonardo's cyber security services with the Aruba cloud and is dedicated to large companies and organizations, National Critical Infrastructures (CNI), Public Administration, Defense.
The agreement will be used to jointly market secure cloud solutions aimed at the Italian and European market. After the entry of both companies as “Day -1 Member” in Gaia-X, the two companies intend to make a concrete contribution in the development of the national cloud ecosystem.
THE GROWTH OF THE FORMER FINMECCANICA
Finally, the trend of the group in Piazza Monte Grappa also impacted by the Covid crisis.
Leonardo “recorded a significant growth trend from 2017 to 2019 with an average growth of around 9% with 2019 revenues of 13.8 billion. You will soon know the results for 2020 which, despite Covid, record a good performance with results in significant growth ”, said Alessandro Profumo.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/come-si-muovera-leonardo-su-pnrr-e-cloud/ on Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:10:48 +0000.