Indra has unveiled Linkia, a digital platform designed to unify and virtualize air traffic management (ATM) systems within a common infrastructure. Announced at Airspace World 2026 in Lisbon, the platform targets air navigation service providers facing growing traffic, stricter cybersecurity requirements, and the integration of new airspace users such as drones.
Linkia consolidates surveillance, communication, navigation, digital tower, automation, simulation and aeronautical information management systems into a shared, cloud-oriented environment. Its modular, scalable architecture is based on virtualization and open standards, enabling faster deployment of new ATM applications and services, easier standardization and simplified maintenance.
The platform is intended to help reduce infrastructure and lifecycle costs, increase operational flexibility and resilience of control centers, and improve interoperability between systems and across borders. It also aims to facilitate the rollout of concepts such as integrated drone management, U-space services and higher levels of automation.
Indra positions Linkia as a core element in its strategy to reinforce its global role in ATM, leveraging an existing portfolio that spans radars, surveillance, communications, navigation, digital towers, information management and simulation. The company presents the platform as a response to the digital transformation of air traffic management driven by capacity, environmental and safety objectives.