Toulouse, November 20th, 2019 – Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), is proud to announce that its Innovation Cluster has won an “Innovation Team Best Practices 2019 Award” from the Club de Paris des Directeurs d’Innovation, the association of innovation heads from a number of French companies in the CAC40 stock market index. The company’s Innovation Cluster won this award in the Innovation Management and Strategies category.

Thales presents EagleSHIELD, the company's new integrated drone countermeasures solution to protect and secure sensitive sites and large-scale events in urban areas. EagleSHIELD is a multi-sensor solution that detects, identifies, classifies and neutralises rogue drones flying at low altitude at ranges of up to 7 km. Thales provides a graduated, context-sensitive response to the threat of unmanned systems flying in civil airspace.