Thales places a premium on innovation. Each year, the company
devotes close to 30% of its defence revenues to research and technology in
order to anticipate future trends and meet the new requirements of armed forces
and security forces around the world.
The Battlespace
Transformation Centre (BTC) — Thales’s centre of excellence for concept
development & experimentation — is a vivid illustration of this commitment. By
selecting the most advanced solutions and shortening development and
integration cycles, the BTC approach reduces risk and accelerates the
introduction of cost-effective mission-ready capabilities. For defence and
security forces, this approach ensures an affordable, cohesive, managed and
progressive transition from current systems to future network-enabled
capabilities. With 29 modelling, simulation and experimentation platforms in
12 countries, the BTC network of expertise ties together the most
innovative solutions from across the Thales organisation to meet the emerging
requirements of each customer.