Partner

Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency (METRA) is the main provider of R&T and T&E services and products for RO MoND. We are a military facility, most of our researchers having military ranks. This allows us to have a deep understanding of military requirements. Also, this status allows us access to military testing ranges to perform tests in relevant operational conditions.

Our activities are mainly financed thru MoND's R&D plan, METRA covering around 70% of this, the rest being covered my military universities. In this process we cooperate with defence industry, when necessary. They focus on R&D mainly, developing products up to stage of prototype, tested and homologated. Then these products usually need to be transferred to industry for mass production in order to be supplied to army in large number.

In particular cases, when number is small, or the level of customisation is high and industry cannot offer an acceptable price, we are developing products ready to be used, performing a microproduction. METRA has 5 R&D and T&E centres: One for armaments systems, one for communications and information technology, one for CBRNE, one for naval systems and one for in flight testing.