Thales : completes the acquisition of Aveillant, world pioneer in holographic radar technology
November 28, 2017 at 07:38 am EST
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Thales announces the acquisition of Aveillant Ltd, a Cambridge (UK) based start-up company, pioneer in holographic radar technology.
Holographic radars perform very differently to standard surveillance techniques by establishing a permanent and complete picture of the total air space volume. This technique is ideally adapted to the growing drone market, enabling the detection, tracking and classification of very small, moving targets such as UAVs. The holographic radar is a software defined staring radar, based upon a modular and scalable hardware platform.
With this acquisition, Thales, a pioneer of digital technologies, will be able to offer customers, a new capability complementing its surveillance offering.
David Crisp, CEO of Aveillant, added: 'We are delighted to join a worldwide group the size of Thales, which will provide Aveillant with the resources and backing that is needed to accelerate its growth potential.'
'Our customers are increasingly faced with significant challenges to ensure the protection of large infrastructures, critical sites and airports. Aveillant's holographic radar technology will provide a key building block for integrated solutions to provide this type of protection', commented Serge Adrian, Senior Vice President for surface radar activities, Thales.
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Thales is one of the European leaders in manufacturing and marketing of electronic equipment and systems for the defense and security, aerospace, and transportation sectors. Net sales break down by product group as follows:
- defense and security systems (53.4%): C4I defense and security systems (control and monitoring systems, communication, protection, cyber-security, and other systems), defense mission systems, naval systems, electronic war systems, drones, air operation systems (air defense, air surveillance), ground defense systems and missiles;
- aerospace systems (28.4%): avionics equipment (cockpit, cabin multimedia, and simulation equipment), space systems (satellites, payloads, etc.);
- digital identification and security solutions (18.2%).
Besides, the group owns a 35% stake in Naval Group (manufacture of naval equipment for defense and nuclear energy sectors).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (29.5%), the United Kingdom (6.6%), Europe (24.8%), the United States and Canada (14%), Asia (9.4%), Near and Middle East (6%), Australia and New Zealand (4.4%) and other (5.3%).