Thales establish a cooperation team with the Spanish company Wake Engineering to develop light UAVs
Thales, a leading technology company with wide-ranging experience and a broad international presence, has establish a cooperation agreement with Wake Engineering, a company with 100% Spanish capital, with the goal of developing and boosting the business of light unmanned aerial vehicle systems (UAV) for the civil and defence purposes.
With the agreement signed this morning, Thales will support Wake in the new development of the Fulmar platform, which will boast important enhancements due to be presented in March at UNVEX’14, the fair for unmanned aerial vehicle solutions. In addition, another of the important novelties arising from this collaborative work will also be exhibited at this fair: the F2, a larger-scale unmanned aircraft with the possibility of transporting a greater technological load.
Wake Engineering is a company created by the Spanish CPS group of technology and engineering companies, with more than 35 years of experience in the Railway, Traffic, Aeronautics and Defence sectors, with the purpose of designing and manufacturing 100% Spanish light UAVs.
“This joint cooperation between Wake and Thales is important in the development of new solutions in the domain of mini and light UAVs. We are committed to Spanish talent because we consider that this company has what it takes to offer great solutions suitable for the customer needs” says José Sarnito, Business Development Director for Aeronautics, Defence and Security of Thales in Spain.
In turn Borja Comino, Managing Director of Wake Engineering, says: “this agreement allows us to go hand in hand with a benchmark technology partner like Thales which, supporting us in developing our business and with its wide-ranging worldwide experience, will pave the way for us in exporting our products”.
This new collaboration forms part of Thales in Spain’s objective to support Spanish technology companies from this sector through funding, technology transfer and the support of the international commercial network of the Thales Group.
On Wake Engineering
Wake Engineering is a technology company of the Spanish CPS engineering group operating in the sectors of Railways, Road Traffic, Aeronautics and Defence. Created in the year 1975, CPS offers turnkey technology solutions in the spheres of telecommunications, security and Intelligent Transportation Systems. As of late 2013 the group has a staff of 600 employees, headquarters in Spain, Turkey and Peru and strong commercial activity in Morocco, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Angola and Indonesia, among others.
Collaboration with the Thales Group began in the year 1982, supporting the company then called Marconi Señalización y Telecomunicaciones in the sector of railway signalling. During these years both companies have continued to closely cooperate in Spain and in other international markets. Today both companies share the challenge of designing and manufacturing 100% Spanish UAVs capable of competing at the highest national and international level. Wake Engineering incorporates the best professionals in the sector in Spain and all the technological capacity and commitment to innovation of the CPS group.