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Thales works with many different partners to conduct its strategic activities of R&T and commercial development. Major alliances have been concluded with the most important international groups such as Alcatel-Lucent, DCNS, Raytheon, Diehl Aerospace, etc. Thales has also agreements with companies that reinforce its capabilities for major programmes.

- Agreement with Alcatel-Lucent brings strategic businesses to Thales

The arrival of Alcatel-Lucent's transport, security and space businesses significantly strengthens Thales's European leadership and its place among the world's top three players in most of the markets for integration of missioncritical electronic systems for aerospace, defence and security. With this operation, the company's outlook for growth has further improved and its portfolio of businesses is more balanced between civil and military markets.

The alliance with Alcatel-Lucent is fully in line with the three main pillars of the Thales strategy: 

• Span the entire value chain: Thales provides all the capabilities its customers require, from equipment and systems to comprehensive support services, as well as prime contracting on large-scale programmes. Through this operation, Thales has achieved a unique positioning across the value chain and strengthened its core capabilities in mission-critical systems.
  
  
• Optimise synergies between civil and military technologies: Thales solutions draw on an exceptional platform of technologies with applications across the company's whole range of businesses. The organisation actively cross-pollinates civil and military technologies to serve a single objective: the security of people, property and nations. The arrival of the Alcatel-Lucent businesses has established a closer balance between the defence and non-defence businesses in the company's portfolio.
  
   
• Leverage the company's multidomestic operations to remain as close as possible to its customers. As a result of its multidomestic strategy, Thales is recognised as a fully fledged local player in each of its target markets and can anticipate and meet local customer requirements more effectively. The strategy is a resounding success: Thales is the leading French supplier to the Pentagon, the largest defence contractor in Australia, Korea and the Netherlands, and the second-largest contractor to the UK Ministry of Defence.

The agreement also provides for closer cooperation with Alcatel-Lucent. It establishes a genuine win-win partnership between the two organisations by:

• Clarifying the respective areas of business of Thales and Alcatel-Lucent. The new businesses make Thales one of the global leaders in mission-critical systems for safety and security markets in the civil sector. In turn, Alcatel-Lucent can now focus on its core business of telecommunications while benefiting from Thales's exceptional position in defence and security markets and making greater use of dual technologies to grow sales of telecommunications solutions.
  
  
• Consolidating their industrial and technological cooperation in optics, system architectures, advanced software and components. Although very different, the products offered by Alcatel-Lucent and Thales incorporate the same core technologies. The two companies have already set up a joint research laboratory dedicated to optoelectronic and microelectronic components based on III-V semiconductor technologies for applications in telecommunications, defence, security and space.
  
  
• Extending this cooperation to marketing and sales so each partner can benefit from the other's international presence.

- Agreement with DCNS spawns a champion of the naval defence industry

In early 2007, Thales became DCNS's industrial partner and shareholder with a 25% interest in the naval defence company. As part of the same operation, Thales contributed its French-based naval operations, with the exclusion of its equipment businesses. The alliance significantly strengthens Thales's involvement in naval markets, which now represent 2 billion euros in business, and its European rankings in the naval sector.

The merger consolidates the French naval defence industry as a first step towards broader consolidation at the European level.

- ThalesRaytheonSystems (TRS) is the first transatlantic joint venture between two major global defense companies, Thales Group and Raytheon Company. TRS gathers its two parent companies' capabilities in the field of Air Command and Control Systems (ACCS), i.e. Air Surveillance Military Radars, Air Operations Centers and Battlefield Air Defense Coordination Systems, including Radar and associated Centers.

TRS is a world leader in Air Command and Control. It has three operating units : one in the USA (with offices in Fullerton and El Segundo in the Los Angeles area) and two units in France (both at Massy, near Paris). TRS employs 1,500 people - the majority of which are high-level engineers.

This joint-venture allows TRS to offer all its customers optimal and cost-effective Systems Engineering solutions. Thanks to the joint and coordinated efforts in Reserch and Development, TRS's new equipment benefits from the most recent technologies. Additionally, with its extended global base, TRS is committed to the support and upgrade all of delivered systems and products, throughout their life cycle.

Security and confidentiality are of major importance to the TRS team and are thoroughly guaranteed to all its customers.

Created in June 2001, ThalesRaytheonSystems (TRS) is the first transatlantic alliance between two global defense companies : Raytheon Company and Thales Group. The two parents companies share equal ownership of the joint venture.

ThalesRaytheonSystems is the continuation of Thales and Raytheon activities in Air Command and Control, Battlefield Surveillance and Coordination, Extended Air Defense and Combined Command and Control. The company, a world leader in its domain, has almost 1,400 collaborators. Its annual sales were $700m in 2005.

ThalesRaytheonSystems is a system of systems integrator and provides fully customized solutions through the integration of Command and Control Centers, Radars and Communication networks.

- New company strengthens strategic partnership with Diehl

Diehl and Thales have enhanced their strategic partnership by agreeing to merge the companies Diehl Luftfahrt Elektronik and Diehl Avionik, of which Thales already holds a 49 percent share, in the new company Diehl Aerospace. Thales will hold a 49 percent share in the new company Diehl Aerospace, which has about 1,200 employees at facilities in Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Rostock, Sterret (USA) and Überlingen and annual sales of EUR190 million. Diehl Aerospace acts as system supplier of commercial and military aviation focusing on avionic systems for the cockpit as well as flight and engine control.