Thales in New Zealand
Overview
Thales is a trusted partner of the New Zealand Defence Force and is also present in commercial sectors including aviation, ground transport systems, security systems and services.
Thales has a history of patient investment across New Zealand and Australia to build advanced local capability across manufacturing, critical systems and services.
Thales is one of very few companies in New Zealand with localised expertise and infrastructure to develop and deliver complex systems that push the boundaries of technological excellence.
Thales’s service provision capabilities include extensive experience in materiel logistics, through life support, logistics supply chain, training systems, and consulting services for civilian and military applications.
Solutions
Defence
Thales is a trusted partner of the New Zealand Defence Force, and has a history of patient investment to build advanced local capability across manufacturing, critical systems and services.
Thales in New Zealand supplies and sustains a range of capabilities for NZDF including: protected vehicles, munitions, small arms, optronics, radars, sonar support and training and simulation.
Aerospace
Thales continues to play an integral role in ensuring the safety of air travel in New Zealand. At many of the major New Zealand airports you’ll find Thales’s DVOR and ILS instrument landing equipment providing air traffic with the ability to safely land in adverse weather conditions. Thales provides the critical nationwide Automatic Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) infrastructure across multiple sites. This countrywide air traffic surveillance ensures the improved surveillance of the New Zealand airspaces , including remote areas where radar coverage is not possible.
Thales provides flight management systems and critical avionic equipment to the civilian aviation market.
Security
Thales in New Zealand offers integrated security, communications, and safety management solutions for the national security, defence, banking, transportation and infrastructure industries.
Thales provides the encryption and secure transaction and communication technologies supporting most electronic transactions through EFTPOS and ATMs for most banks in New Zealand.
Transport
Thales has delivered a multi modal and multi operator ticketing system for Auckland and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority. The system provides Auckland transport customers with seamless movement between trains, buses and ferries using one smartcard ticket, and has made public transport more attractive for residents and visitors to Auckland.
National Security and Public Safety
Thales delivers mission critical solutions to the largest security, policing and emergency management services organisations in the world. Thales delivers operational critical solutions to the largest security, policing and emergency management services organisations in the world.
Leveraging our global capabilities while growing our own sovereign footprint, Thales has invested significantly in bringing world class technologies to Australian and New Zealand Government agencies. Our solutions include digital identity & biometrics, secure communications, surveillance technologies, cyber & intelligence services, aerial operations and Australian-made small arms.
Space
Governments, institutions and companies rely on Thales Alenia Space to design, operate and deliver satellite-based systems that help them position and connect anyone or anything, everywhere, help observe our planet, help optimise the use of our planet's – and our solar system’s – resources.
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