- Delays and deliveries of the VCR 8×8 Dragon: the 2025 results
- Two movements that trigger alerts around 8×8
- ISDEFE activates a key call for tenders for the 8×8 life cycle
- Paralysis on December 1: ISDEFE resigns and reverses course
Delays and deliveries of the VCR 8×8 Dragon: the 2025 results
The 8×8 program accumulate delays that we feared that it would accumulate 2025. Tess Defensehe manufacturing consortiumbook 11 vehicles At Ministry of Defense between April and May.
Deliveries did not continuebut in summer he president of Indra (that controls the majority of the capital of the consortium which shares with EM&E, Santa Barbara And SAPA) is committed to in 2025 would be delivered in total dozens of 8×8 VCRs. He spoke of between 60 and 80 units.
Throughout December were delivered to Army 30 vehiclesIn three roundsso they already are 41 those delivered.
In addition Tess has others 24 VCRs waiting pass the validation tests inside Santa Barbara Proving Grounds In Alcalá de Guadaira (Seville).
Two movements that trigger alerts around 8×8
In all this context they attract attention two movementsdetected by Digital Confidentialityaround the 8×8.
Sapromil offers military engineers… and an unexpected withdrawal
HAS end of November appeared two job offers For military on the website of Sapromilhe Support service for the professional development of military personnel. It is a platform for Ministry of Defense in which companies offer jobs to soldiers who want to take the leap civilian worldparticularly for temporary soldiers of the Scale of troops and sailors who stops the 45 years old.
An offer was maintenance engineer of military vehiclesand the other was presented as a job specialized engineer In “life cycle” in the field of defense.
Both offers concerned the Technical Lifecycle Support Office of the Wheeled combat vehicle Dragon 8×8 VCR.
To the candidates, who were to be engineers of one of Armed Forces Corpsthey offered them a annual salary of between 30,000 and 45,000 euros gross.
However, from December 30 these offers now cannot be viewed. THE URL of the two offers lead to “page not entered” on the website of Sapromil. But the Google cache allows you to check that these offers have been published.
This withdrawal of two job offers so that military engineers will continue to work, on a civilian basis, for the 8×8 programcoincides with another reverse.
ISDEFE activates a key call for tenders for the 8×8 life cycle
Systems engineering for the defense of Spain, ISDEFEit’s a public company controlled by the Ministry of Defense. In November threw a tender to hire “consulting services for the execution of support projects in the lifecycle technical support desk of the 8×8 of the MAN (AND)“.
The tender documents specified that it was for the hiring “consulting services for the preparation of different studies and support projects for the Technical Lifecycle Support Office of the 8×8 vehicle (OTAC 8×8)located in the Fleet and Maintenance Center of wheeled vehicles No. 2 (PCMVR2) of the Logistics Support Command of the Army (MEN)“.
He Logistics Support Command had ordered ISDEFE certain support activities At Technical Lifecycle Support Office of the 8×8 vehicle.
To execute the order of Army, ISDEFE proceeded in turn to hire a consulting company.
“He MALE requires a series of activities In Projects linked to the OTAC 8×8with a demanding scopewhich must be finished in some certain dates inside the charge it is planned to sign it,” he explained.
I needed to “hire the services of a consulting company develop some tasks in the projects of THEY (Integrated Logistics Support) within the Order with MALEin addition to the tasks carried out by Isdefe in said project.
He justified that he required external support to “complete the technical capabilities of ISDEFE in the execution of Sustainability projects inside the OTAC 8×8 led by ISDEFE“, and for “get achieve goals and milestones marked by the customer in the different projects, to dateand with the quality required“.
Today, Trubia’s first VCR 8X8 arrived at our military land vehicle industrial plant in Gijón, allowing us to validate key issues such as accessibility and maneuverability, as well as move forward with future final assembly activities. pic.twitter.com/Z1nNDeZyUt
– Indra (@IndraCompany) December 23, 2025
The public company chose to hire another private company because “currently no personal resources available for the realization of tasks which will be subject to hiring“.
What work was requested: ILS, maintenance and support for the OTAC 8×8
The tasks to be carried out by the consultants included the « definition of ILS requirements: Support for updating and developing the Logistics support concept of the 8×8 vehicle“, definition of basic engineering datathe development of studies for the determination of maintenance plansdetermination of equipment and tools necessary for the different stages, definition of spare parts levels necessary for the different stages, definition of logistical needs in the expected life cycle, definition of necessary infrastructure for the storage and maintenance of vehicles, support for OTAC 8×8 in the manufacture of technological prospective studies And pilot tests for the use of said technologies in sustaining power and testing activities.
The hired staff should work in the Fleet and Vehicle Maintenance Center No. 2 of the Army (El Higuerón – Cordoba).
Paralysis on December 1: ISDEFE resigns and reverses course
But he December 1 everything is paralyzed. ISDEFE resigned from the tender.
“Given the urgency of deadlines and forecasts of not being able to execute said service with own resources for not having them available when we needed them, ISDEFE decide to use the services of a consulting company to make these SLI taskswithin the Charge with the Army Logistics Support Commandin addition to the tasks carried out by Isdefe in the said medium,” it was explained in the resignation resolution of the hiring file.
But it turns out that “once procedures started of this hiring process, after assess the situation with the end customer and given the criticality of the taskwhich involve third parties of the business sphere, with the aim of preserving the objectivity, impartiality and confidentiality In the advice and execution of the service, it is agreed to use ISDEFE staff to accomplish these tasks and not to hire the same private entity“.
With those “reasons of public interest”, Systems engineering for the defense of Spain gave case At tender And resigned to hire consultants in support of the Technical Lifecycle Support Office of the 8×8 vehicle.
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