The CEO
di Leonardo,
Alessandro Profumo
, is "absolutely satisfied" for how the company has gone through 2020, for "the numbers" and "in particular for how people have reacted: the whole company has reacted in an absolutely admirable way".
Let's look forward ", he says. In the meantime," he accelerates on a role of the aerospace, defense and security company that is also one of social commitment and for the country: "It is in doing our job that we want to be a development actor "he says, in an interview with ANSA, commenting on the agreement with the Carabinieri for a digital literacy program for the elderly in small towns.
Profumo underlines this by announcing
new projects based on the application of Leonardo's technologies
: one for "smart cities";
one for "the connection of internal areas", to reduce the connectivity gap that today weighs on rural areas and small and remote communities.
"The company's culture is obviously a culture of great closeness to the country and a great desire to be not only a great technological and industrial company, but also to be the facilitator of the country's technological evolution", underlines the CEO .: "In this context there is also - the reference is to the project with the Carabinieri - the theme of supporting people who are less familiar with digital technologies. Moreover, we do it with our 'natural partner', the Arma is one of the great centers focused on security in the country and we are a company that deals with security. There is a strong consonance ".
Looking ahead, a
commitment spent on the front of the Covid emergency continues
.
"We - says Profumo - carried out many activities in close proximity to citizens and people, starting with ours: I would like to emphasize that we are a company that, in any case, in this period has 100% protected its own occupation and we are here has always been an obsessive attention to health safety issues. We have also taken action in the transport of useful goods to cope with the emergency: our planes and our helicopters have flown day and night, even to transport the sick. Not everyone knows that we had two planes that flew about 18 hours a day. We did a lot of things, such as a crownfunding between employees to give digital material, such as tablets, to less fortunate students and schools with more difficulties. And we worked intensively on our supply chain to avoid inconvenience ".
New projects for the country are now in the pipeline.
"We have created a structure, which reports to the dg Lucio Valerio Cioffi, of support to Governments, precisely to deal with very specific projects also linked to the themes of the pandemic. Among others there are two projects: one for the 'smart city', both for safety and to increase the usability of services; the other for connectivity and security of internal areas.
We can enhance infrastructures that exist, capabilities that we have ", such as communications infrastructures for law enforcement and military.
Meanwhile, the company is preparing to close
the 2020 accounts of
the pandemic.
"I am very satisfied with how Leonardo reacted to the impact of Covid, and even the September numbers - with the third quarterly - confirmed it", says Profumo: "I am satisfied for various reasons: the first is for how the people: there was a first moment of discouragement and disorientation and it was overcome. We had an incredible attention both to the stability of employment and to the health of people. We have not reduced our staff and, thanks also to a trade union agreement innovative, with a solidarity system ", including the donation of holidays," we avoided the Cig in 2020 and 2021 ".