(HONG KONG)—Thales Group, a leader in global technology in aerospace, transportation, defense and security with over 65,000 employees in 56 countries, announced yesterday that an Innovation Hub will be opened in Hong Kong, cooperating closely with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. An Innovation Hub, what is an “incubator of ideas for academic, […] More

Thales has inked an agreement with ArianeGroup to help design, develop, qualify and produce a telemetry transmitter for a European Space Agency-approved launcher. Thales said Tuesday the Ariane 6 telemetry transmitter will relay launcher-generated data to servers on the ground throughout the entire launch mission. “This contract shows our company’s ability to adapt to a […] More

Microsoft and Thales have partnered to integrate two offerings in a push to help highly regulated sectors protect sensitive data in cloud-based Office 365 applications while maintaining privacy compliance. The partnership combined the Double Key Encryption for Microsoft 365 and Thales' Luna Hardware Security Modules to support confidential data protection efforts in the financial services, health care and government sectors, the Paris-based technology provider said Tuesday.

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France- and Italy-based businesses of Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, have landed spots on a potential $6 billion NASA contract vehicle covering spacecraft systems and support services through an on-ramp solicitation process. The agency issued the first RAPID IV on-ramp award nearly eight months after its original selection of five aerospace companies to participate in the program.

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Thales Alenia Space has secured a pair of contracts to supply Ka-band travelling wave tube amplifiers and S-band transponders to support communications for two projects managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Thales' defense and security business has landed a potential five-year, $30.9M contract to manufacture components and provide engineering services for the U.S. Navy's high-frequency distribution amplifier group system.

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Thales‘ defense and security group has received a $14M delivery order to repair dome sonars installed on the U.S. Navy‘s H-60 multimission helicopters. The order falls under a previously awarded basic ordering agreement and will cover repairs on 50 airborne low frequency sonar domes through November 2020, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Navy will obligate $10.5M in working […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has selected Thales to build a facility at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for receiving and processing distress beacon signals from Global Navigation Satellite System satellites. Thales said Monday it will establish the Southwest USA Medium-Earth Orbit Local User Terminal to support NOAA’s Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking […] More

Thales and Microsoft have teamed up to build a cloud platform designed to help the armed forces and other defense clients store and secure classified and sensitive data within their information technology infrastructure. Microsoft said Tuesday it will integrate its Azure Stack hybrid cloud platform with Thales’ cybersecurity and encryption tools to develop the defense […] More

Iridium Communications and Speedcast have entered an agreement that authorizes the latter to offer Iridium’s Certus satellite broadband service for land-based mobile operations. Certus is designed to deliver real-time vehicle tracking, internet, phone and data transfer support for on-the-move vehicles, assets and teams, Iridium said Tuesday. The satellite communications company unveiled the first batch of six Certus service providers in February […] More

Thales and NASA have agreed to work together to advance the development of an unmanned aircraft system traffic management platform designed to advance the integration of drones into the national airspace system. The company said Tuesday it will leverage its experience in UTM development and create jobs in New York through the Space Act Agreement […] More

Australia has awarded Thales a potential $941 million contract to deploy an air traffic control platform as part of the OneSKY program. The OneSKY project seeks to integrate military and civil airspace as well as advance the modernization of Australia’s oceanic airspace in an effort to ensure aviation safety and flight coordination, Thales said Monday. […] More