Thales announced that it has reached the end of a decisive year-long European technical design study, called SIGAT – (Study on military frequency spectrum allocations for the Insertion into General Air Traffic of UAS).
Kicking off in early 2009, SIGAT was aimed at defining and promoting a common European position on the appropriate command and control [...]
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EDA Study on Integration of UAS Into General Air Traffic
ThalesRaytheonSystems to Modernize US Army AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel Radars
ThalesRaytheonSystems has been awarded a $21.8 million contract by the U.S. Army to upgrade multiple AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel air defense radar systems. This award is an option to the existing upgrade contract originally awarded in June 2007.
The contract will upgrade the U.S. Army Sentinel radar transmitters, receivers and exciters and increase functional capabilities such as faster [...]
DCNS to Self-Fund Construction of Highly Innovative OPV
DCNS, a leading player on the world market for capital warships, also aims to win new business in the corvette/OPV sector. In line with this policy, the Group has decided to self-fund the construction of a Gowind offshore patrol vessel. The new ship is designed for a wide range of government missions at sea. Shipbuilding [...]
Thales caught in all too familiar French political trap
The EADS story is all too familiar. For years, the European aerospace and defence group has been hamstrung by its French and German political masters. But these days it seems that the French government has decided to delegate responsibility to its French and German core industrial shareholders – Lagardère and Daimler – put in place [...]
EUROSAM bids for Turkish Air Defence System
Turkey’s defence procurement office removed MBDA from a blacklist last month after an international legal dispute between the Ankara government and the French missile maker ended amicably. One immediate effect: Eurosam, whose shareholders include MBDA, Thales, Finmeccanica and BAE Systems, will be allowed to bid next month against Chinese, U.S. and Russian rivals for Turkey’s multibillion-dollar [...]
Thales Stock Tumbles After Surprise 2009 Loss
Shares in Thales fell sharply Feb. 19 after the French systems company posted an unexpected 2009 net loss of 128 million euros ($173 million), halved its dividend and issued a gloomy outlook for orders.
The net loss followed a 2008 net profit of 650 million euros. Sales rose 2 percent to 12.88 billion euros from 12.66 [...]
NATO ACCS approved for rollout in Czech Republic, Denmark and Greece
ThalesRaytheonSystems, operating through Air Command Systems International, has received an award for three additional NATO Air Command and Control (ACCS) replication sites in the Czech Republic, Denmark and Greece.
This contract includes the delivery of an ACCS Level of Operation Capability One (LOC1) Air Control Center, Recognised Air Picture Production Center and Sensor Fusion Post (ARS) for [...]
Thales Introduces I-Mast 100
Thales introduces the I-Mast 100 integrated sensor and communication system for naval vessels.
I-Mast 100 is a central mast structure that houses all of a ship’s radar and optronic sensors, most of the communication antennas and all associated cabinets and peripherals.
The advantages of this sensor concept are numerous: improved operational performance, higher operational availability, reduced ship-building [...]
Thales et EADS Defence & Security réaliseront le premier Intranet Classifié Défense pour les Armées
A l’issue d’une compétition de plusieurs mois, la Délégation Générale pour l’Armement (DGA) a notifié à Thales, mandataire du projet et à EADS Defence & Security (DS), co-traitant à hauteur de 40%, un contrat pour développer, réaliser et déployer INTRACED, le premier Intranet Classifié Défense des Armées et du Ministère de la Défense.
Première étape vers la généralisation [...]