During the opening of the event on Defense cooperation between France and The Netherlands on 25 February chairman NIDV Hans Hillen made the following speech.

Photonis has been awarded a major contract by the NSPA to upgrade a fleet of night vision goggles with 4G image intensifiers for a NATO country in Europe.

Embraer, a major Brazilian OEM, organized an information meeting on February 10 together with the NIDV for the companies about possible future cooperation.