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Photo The Thales team entry is also centred around aerial and ground units working in tandem. The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to address military challenges faced by the UK armed forces.
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper This new whitepaper considers the topical issue of how to ensure your customers credit and debit card information is securely stored and protected. The paper focuses on how to use cryptography to achieve PCI-DSS compliance and avoid a business...
[28 Feb 2008]
Photo The Ministry of Defence has just signed a £30m contract with Thales UK to take charge of the devices, which have built-in GPS, thermal imaging and a 5km laser range finder. A UK army soldier tests out the surveillance system and range finder (SSARF).
[18 Feb 2008]
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a £30m contract with Thales UK to take charge of 700 handheld or tripod-mounted systems for close combat forces from 2009. The equipment will be built at Thales UK's optronics facility in Glasgow.
[15 Feb 2008]
News Their withdrawal leaves only six major suppliers CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, Steria and Thales in the running to be chosen to tender for the contracts in March. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever...
[25 Jan 2008]
whitepaper This new whitepaper considers the topical issue of how to ensure your customers credit and debit card information is securely stored and protected. The paper focuses on how to use cryptography to achieve PCI-DSS compliance and avoid a business...
[03 Dec 2007]
News The companies named as potential suppliers for the scheme - which includes the national ID cards programme - are Accenture, BAE Systems, CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, Steria and Thales. Eight companies are in the running as key suppliers for the Identity...
[22 Oct 2007]
whitepaper TCP is the most used connection-oriented transport protocol in the Internet nowadays. However, TCP has a number of problems when the connections are running over wireless links. This paper addresses some of them for mobile ad hoc networking.
[01 Aug 2007]
News The satellite communications company has teamed up with defence company Thales UK to provide the Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service - which will be fully launched by June 2007. Richard Deakin, managing director at Thales UK's aerospace...
[14 Feb 2007]
News Tchuruk said in a statement: "This offensive strategy, strengthened by the projects to acquire some of Nortel's assets and the reinforcement of our partnership with Thales, aims to increase Alcatel's value for its shareholders, and to provide its...
[08 Sep 2006]
whitepaper A simple method is proposed to optimise the protection levels on the different parts of an H.264/AVC bitstream for transmission over an error-prone channel. This method relies on a semi-analytical model of the video stream sensitivity that allows...
[07 Sep 2006]
News Thales has picked up a deal worth more than £50m to kit out the army's new IT system. Thales has won the contract from BAE, which earlier secured the deal with the British army to supply the first phase of its £200m Falcon communications network.
[21 Aug 2006]
News Following on from news of its merger with Lucent, Alcatel has announced it is to sell its satellite operations to French defence and technology firm Thales. According to Thales, the acquisition will allow it to expand its customer base and aid it...
[05 Apr 2006]
News The Advanced Research & Technology for Embedded Intelligence and Systems (Artemis) programme consists of 20 tech and automotive companies, including Daimler Chrysler, Nokia, STMicroelectronics and Thales, which claim increased investment in...
[07 Mar 2006]
whitepaper MV Tricolor is a 1987 built Norwegian flagged vehicle carrier, which was struck by MV Kariba, a Bahamian flagged container ship in 2002 sank as a result of the impact of the striking. Later, French authorities ordered the MV Tricolor to be removed.
[16 Feb 2006]
whitepaper The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet chose the Magellan GPS receiver due to its durability, economical price, and the excellent tech support provided by Thales Navigation. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is a state agency that includes the...
[11 Jan 2006]
whitepaper This application paper describes components of the nation's critical infrastructure, explains how unprotected information systems used to monitor and control these can be used to disable the provisioning of vital services and proposes ways in...
[30 Aug 2005]
News The system has been developed by security firm Thales, which claims the technology also has the potential to save bikers' lives through an accident-reporting feature that alerts the emergency services to any unusual mechanical readings from the bike.
[21 Mar 2005]
News The latter comprised three well-known IT companies - BT and Thales as well as CSC - versus the six partners working with EDS. The EDS-led Atlas consortium has won the £4bn Ministry of Defence (MoD) Defence Information Infrastructure (DII...
[02 Mar 2005]
News The EDS-led Atlas consortium with Fujitsu Services, EADS, General Dynamics, IBM and LogicaCMG is competing against the CSC-led Radii consortium which includes BT and Thales. EDS is reported to be on the verge of landing the £4bn outsourcing deal to...
[28 Feb 2005]
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