Our solutions

 Airport solutions

• Air Traffic Solutions
  
  
  • ADS-B / Multilateration
    
    ADS-B improves air traffic controllers' surveillance abilities by rapidly updating the simulation display on the air traffic control monitor.
    
    
    
  • ADS-B
    
    This navigation system enables precise, satellite-based position determination for aircraft equipped with ADS-B, Mode S extended squitter capability. This includes identification, position, altitude, direction, speed and additional aviation-related information. Thales equipped the entire Australian airspace with this system and is currently supplying US airspace with this technology.
    
    
    
  • MLAT (Multilateration)
    
    This system enables precise position determination for aircraft equipped with ADS-B, Mode A / C and S. The technology provides air traffic controllers with faster updates for their situational displays, allowing them to reduce separation distances between the individual aircraft in the airways. This increases airspace capacity, thereby decreasing airspace delays and reducing aircraft fuel consumption. Among others, Thales has equipped the Frankfurt/Main, Lyon and London airports with this technology and has also supplied the Helsinki, Taipei and Milan-Linate airports with the landing and ground situation surveillance system.
    
    
    
  • ADS-B FAA contract
    
    On August 30 2007, a team led by ITT received the FAA’s award for the ADS-B contract, a major milestone in the FAA’s plans for a comprehensive modernisation of the US air traffic management system. Under the contract, Thales is responsible for the supply and life-cycle support of ADSB radios for the ITT team. Thales has been a leader in development of ADS-B and multilateration systems including the implementation of the first countrywide ADS-B system for Airservices Australia in 2004. Thales was also awarded a contract by Eurocontrol in 2005 for deployment of ADS-B systems in Europe including the first multichannel ADS-B system. In 2008, Thales delivered 19 additional ADS-B ground stations to complete the Indonesia country-wide ADS-B system. A Thales system is operational at Milan Linate airport for surface multilateration. Additional contracts have been secured for surface multilateration at Helsinki, Abu Dhabi and Taiwan, as well as wide area multilateration at Frankfurt.
    

• Airport Security
  
  
  • Hypervisor
    
    The world’s airports now handle a total of four billion passengers every year. The largest individual airports now manage up to 200,000 people each day, and they are the size of small cities with sites that cover tens of square kilometres. Thales already addresses the need for security in some of the world’s busiest and most complex international airports, including Doha in Qatar and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. And it is building on this expertise with Hypervisor, a new control centre architecture for large and complex sites.
    
    
    
  • Transforming supervision
    
    Many airports lack an overarching security control framework. When an incident occurs today, the problem is being able to understand what happens, to communicate and work together to resolve the incident. What’s needed is a shared situation awareness and the ability to co-ordinate actions.
    Thales Hypervisor is based on open architecture and this makes it possible to transform security management to successfully create a knowledge advantage for airport operators and security stakeholders with a clear situational awareness.
    To detect and identify an incident, qualify the incident and locate it, Thales Hypervisor makes it possible to harness existing systems such as video surveillance, access control, passenger information, intrusion and fire detection, which Thales integrates into a network centric environment. Synthesising this data provides the capacity to monitor and manage situations.
    
    
    
  • Data exchange
    
    The internal hierarchy of airports varies enormously between different jurisdictions. Airport operators, security forces, government agencies, first responders and airline companies all have different supervision needs.
    Hypervisor meets those needs, while allowing stakeholders to maintain their functional independence. The role is to facilitate the customer’s need to exchange information with other institutions, other departments, other terminals and even other airports.
    

 Civil Aviation solutions

• 2010 Thales’s In-Flight Entertainment Business 
  
  • Entered the In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) business in the late 90s.
  • 1000 + dedicated employees with decades of IFE experience
  • Main IFE regional offices are in US, France, China and Singapore
  • 17% Sales reinvested into Research and Development
  • Fastest growing IFE supplier with over 1,100 aircraft commitments
  • Over 50 world airline customers
  • Thales wins approximately 45% of the bids it competes for
  • Differentiator is Thales’s aerospace experience and robust IFE platform
    
  
  Our offering
  
  From aircraft departure to arrival, Thales plays a key role in this journey helping airlines streamline the management of their IFE system and deliver meaningful entertainment and communication service to their passengers. Thales offers an end-to-end solution made up of four key parts:

1. TopEffects Digital Media and Services
   Designed around an airline’s brand, TopEffects builds the passenger experience by combining the right entertainment, information and communication options into a compelling package that can be personalized and afford revenue generation opportunities for the airline.
   
   
2. TopConnect Suite of Connectivity Solutions
   Using Swift Broadband and WiMAX wireless technologies, Thales enables aircraft to remain connected to the Internet, airline’s IT network and 3rd party networks during all phases of flight. TopConnect provides a wide range of connectivity options through passenger devices and the TopSeries system.
   
   
3. TopSeries Inflight Entertainment Systems
   Based on web-based technologies, TopSeries provides in-seat entertainment and connectivity. The system is an advanced audio and video on-demand system that is capability-rich for both passengers and crews.
   
   
4. TopServices Global Service and Support
   Dedicated to outstanding service, TopServices is designed to meet a wide range of needs from basic on-call assistance and supplemental training to comprehensive turnkey services under Thales’s TopCare program. 
    

• Navigations aids and airport solutions
  
  Thales is a market leader in navigation aids. The company offers a complete range of navaids for takeoff and landing, en-route and tactical navigation systems and satellite navigation systems.
  Today, Thales equips more than 180 countries and has captured over 60% of the world market, including 90% of the landing systems market in the United States.
  
  
  
  • Foreign Object Debris (FOD)
    
    FODetect provides airports with the most advanced and effective system available today for continuous detection of runway and taxiway debris.The system detects debris, generates alerts and provides tools to investigate detections – ensuring a rapid response to FOD events. FODetect’s unique distributed architecture leverages existing runway and taxiway infrastructure for power and communications.
    Small, rugged multisensor units, based on radar and electro-optic technology, are integrated with runway edge lights or installed close to the runway edge. FODetect was successfully evaluated at Boston Logan International Airport.       
    

 Military Aircraft solutions  

• CNI-solutions (Communication-Navigation-Identification) for aircraft
  Thales has over 40 years of experience in the field of CNI solutions and its technologies are present in over 70 different types of aircraft. Thales offers complete solution packages for military communications, navigation and identification for use in helicopters, fighter aircraft, transporters, tankers and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).
  
  Nextw@ve military radio equipment ensures interference-proof air-to-ground communication for voice and tactical data links. Beyond this, Thales also offers a full range of military interrogators and transponders for IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) along with aircraft navigation units, in particular AHV 2500 radio altimeters and TLS 2060 multi-mode receivers.
  
  Nextw@ve radios are Software Defined Radios (SDR) that provide superior military communication for rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. The Thales TSC 1430 is the world's smallest and lightest military transponder. The TMA 6000 enables data links for high-speed data exchange at rates of up to 140 megabytes per second (MBps).
  
  In addition, Thales is presenting onboard cryptographic devices featuring key management that makes it possible to store entire missions in the ACVMU – giving pilots access to this information. This relieves the burdens placed on pilots and allows them to flexibly switch between missions, for example from Mission 1 to Mission 2. Thus, the ACVMU is a crucial element of the key management process as a whole.
  
  From generating and preparing (ESE) the required keys to secure data transfer (VESUV/DTD II), to crypto-relevant mission planning and bulk generation (KLMS), all the way to the end systems of the airborne platforms, Thales systems and components secure the supply of keys to platforms. In the future, these technologies will also be used in the UH Tiger, NH90 and CH53 helicopters, among others.
  

• Air Protection
  • Ground Master 400
    A new generation of air defence radars
    
    The Ground Master is a family of versatile, multimission air defence radars, dedicated to the protection of key assets and forces deployed in remote theatres. This series of static and mobile radars provides complete air defence protection with a range of 400 kilometres.
    The Ground Master 400 is a fully digital, 3D air defence radar and is the only system that is capable of combining high-quality reconnaissance on the most dangerous threats at high altitudes with extremely high availability and mobility. The Ground Master 400 can either be used as a stand-alone system or in conjunction with an integrated security management centre. It meets NATO requirements and can also be controlled and maintained from remote locations.
    ThalesRaytheonSystems delivers integrated systems; its Ground Master family of radars can be delivered as a simple radar system to be integrated with existing command and control centres (C2) or with their own integrated command and control centre (radar + communications + command and control centre).
    
    At the top-end of the Ground Master family, with its unique digital and redundant architecture, the Ground Master 400 radar is the most reliable and compact long-range radar on the market. This radar offers the highest operational availability, a highly simplified maintenance, and the most compact design making it easily deployable for remote operations. This enables minimum transport aircraft rotations from the national territory to the operational theatre.
    
    The GM 400 is a commercial success, so far, 18 GM 400s have been sold to five countries. In 2008, ThalesRaytheonSystems bolstered its vanguard position in the air defence radar field, winning several key contracts. These include providing the latest Ground Master 400 digital air defence radar to customers in Slovenia, Malaysia and France. In April 2009 ThalesRaytheonSystems was selected to deliver Medium Range Air Surveillance Systems including 14 Ground Master 400 radar systems, 12 for Finland and two for Estonia.
    
    

 Space aviation solutions

• Travelling wave tubes
  
  Thales is involved in projects headed by renowned customers with its high-quality components for use on board satellites for telecommunications, multimedia applications and in radar systems or missiles. Thales is the world leader in amplification systems for satellites, radar systems and missiles. To date, the Thales Deutschland location in Ulm has manufactured more than 8,000 travelling wave tubes for use in space. The overall operating life of the tubes in these rough conditions exceeds 300 million hours.
  
  
  
• High Efficiency Multi Stage Plasma ( "HEMP")
  
  HEMP is an innovative thrust system for satellite position control. Ion technology is used to extend the useful life of satellites in space while at the same time increasing payloads. Thales has teamed up with its project partner the DLR (German Aerospace Centre) to develop, qualify and manufacture the HEMP system at the Thales Competence Centre in Ulm. The project is being carried out on behalf of the DLR Space Agency using funds provided by the German Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology).
  

 Training and simulation solutions 

• Doorgunner-Simulator
  
  The 'Doorgunner' training concept is used by the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) to create realistic training scenarios for military helicopter personnel. The enhancement of the AGSHP weapons training system creates an effective training environment that offers a broad spectrum of content from weapon-specific basic training to tactical training prior to deployment.