The French defence procurement agency's aeronautical programmes department (SPAé) has awarded the "Replacement Structures" contract to ThalesRaytheonSystems in partnership with CS Systèmes d’Information and Thales Communications.
Thursday June 27, 2002

The new contract involves further work to enhance reliability of the system and communications architectures of the Control and Detection Centres (CDC). This will improve France's air defence capability, reducing the number of CDCs from six to four and accommodating their future development within the ACCS programme. ThalesRaytheonSystems and its co-contractors will deploy new-generation Visu 5 display consoles at the CDCs at Drachenbonn, Cinq-Mars-la-Pile and Mont-de-Marsan to replace earlier-generation Visu 3 and Visu 4 consoles, as well as associated communication systems.

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India has signed an agreement with the U.S. government to buy eight Thales Raytheon Systems’ AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder counter-battery artillery radars with related support.
Friday April 19, 2002

This includes generators, trailers, communications equipment, training, logistics services, Quality Assurance Team (QAT), spare and repair parts, publications and other related elements of program support. The current estimated value of this Foreign Military Sales (FMS) procurement is approximately $140 million with final price negotiations to be completed shortly.

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The French defense procurement agency has awarded the Thales Group a contract worth €110 million to produce the first version of the C3M mobile command and control centre, which is the deployable component of France's Air Command and Control System (SCCOA)
Tuesday March 5, 2002

The existing system will be completely renovated under the new contract to strengthen the French Air Force's air command and control capability in external theatres of operations, where allied forces may be required to conduct joint air operations. The objective for C3M is to achieve a high level of interoperability and to enable France to assume the role of "framework nation" in future multinational engagements.

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A Thales Raytheon Systems radar will help protect the airspace against low flying aircraft that might prove to threaten the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Monday February 11, 2002

Originally developed by Raytheon Company and officially known as the AN/MPQ-64, the sentinel is a three-dimensional radar used to automatically detect, track, classify, identify and report airborne targets. It is currently operational with U.S. Army active and reserve forces.

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