Intelsat has agreed to acquire two software-defined satellites from a joint venture of Thales and Leonardo for its planned 5G network. The two satellites from Thales Alenia Space will join the other two software-defined spacecraft that Intelsat procured from Airbus – Intelsat 42 and Intelsat 43 and are expected to be in service in 2025, […] More

Airspace Link, a Detroit-based drone integration service provider, has secured $10 million in a recently concluded round of Series A financing led by early-stage investor Altos Ventures. Thales, a global company offering air traffic management systems, also participated in the funding round, Airspace Link said Thursday. Dillon Krasnigor, investment team member at Altos Ventures, said […] More

Microsoft and Thales have partnered to integrate two offerings in a push to help highly regulated sectors protect sensitive data in cloud-based Office 365 applications while maintaining privacy compliance. The partnership combined the Double Key Encryption for Microsoft 365 and Thales' Luna Hardware Security Modules to support confidential data protection efforts in the financial services, health care and government sectors, the Paris-based technology provider said Tuesday.

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France- and Italy-based businesses of Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, have landed spots on a potential $6 billion NASA contract vehicle covering spacecraft systems and support services through an on-ramp solicitation process. The agency issued the first RAPID IV on-ramp award nearly eight months after its original selection of five aerospace companies to participate in the program.

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North Dakota has selected L3Harris Technologies, Raytheon Technologies' Collins Aerospace business and the U.S. subsidiary of Thales to develop, implement and manage an aviation-grade network for unmanned aerial systems that are designed to fly beyond visual line-of-sight.

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Kanav Gandhi, a product manager at Thales eSecurity, wrote in a blog post published Thursday about the key insights cybersecurity professionals can draw from the television series Game of Thrones and one of those is the need for long-term plans to protect data from threats.

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The Maxar and Thales Alenia Space Consortium has advanced its detailed and low-risk designs for Telesat’s LEO system, including system optimization, engineering trade-offs, requirements development and technology prototyping to establish compelling and mature designs for Telesat LEO’s space, ground and user terminal segments, Maxar announced on Monday.

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A new report by Thales says 98 percent of U.S. federal government respondents said they are using sensitive data with digitally transformative technologies such as cloud, internet of things, big data and blockchain. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report – Federal Edition showed that less than a third of the respondents are adopting data encryption within those tech environments, the company said Wednesday.

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Nick Jovanovic, vice president of Thales’ eSecurity federal division, has said the federal government should implement best practices to protect sensitive data from identify theft and other cyber threats.

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Thales Alenia Space has secured a pair of contracts to supply Ka-band travelling wave tube amplifiers and S-band transponders to support communications for two projects managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Thales' defense and security business has landed a potential five-year, $30.9M contract to manufacture components and provide engineering services for the U.S. Navy's high-frequency distribution amplifier group system.

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Thales‘ defense and security group has received a $14M delivery order to repair dome sonars installed on the U.S. Navy‘s H-60 multimission helicopters. The order falls under a previously awarded basic ordering agreement and will cover repairs on 50 airborne low frequency sonar domes through November 2020, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Navy will obligate $10.5M in working […] More