OCCAR News 02. November 2017 OCCAR awards ESSOR Operational Capability 1 (OC1) contract The OCCAR Director, Arturo Alfonso Meiriño and the a4ESSOR SaS president, Lino Lagana signed today, 2 November, in Bonn the contract for ESSOR Operational Capability 1. 13. February 2017 First Steel Cutting Ceremony for PPA The First Steel Cutting ceremony for the Multipurpose Patrol Ship (Pattugliatore Polivalente d’Altura - PPA) took place in FINCANTIERI’s shipyard, in La Spezia, on 13 February 2017. 26. September 2011 Spanish Critical Non-Common Activities Acceptance Test Review: Successful implementation of the ESSOR Architecture The Spanish Critical Non-Common Activities Acceptance Test Review was successfully carried out from 26 to 30 September 2011 in the facilities of the Spanish company INDRA, located in Aranjuez (province of Madrid).