The Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) is a center that promote and develop the creation of technological knowledge and its transfer to the industrial aerospace production fabric, through activities of Applied research, Technological development and Knowledge management (prospective, surveillance and competitive intelligence, protection, transfer and industrialization). CATEC  is a key tool in the generation and management of aerospace scientific-technological knowledge, in coordination with the Academy and with the industrial fabric.

CATEC has these principal activities:

• Avionics & Systems
• Materials & Advanced Processes

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

• Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
• Industrial Internet of Things
• Additive Manufacturing
• Topology Optimization
• NDT
• SHM
• Modal Analysis
• Environmental testing
• HALT/HASS
• Mechanical testing
• Automation of advanced manufacturing processes
• Advanced inspection of manufacturing processes
• Robotics and ad-hoc control
• Industrial Design
• Design and Development of test benches
• Monitoring and control of automated processes