Thales in the ATM market - Thales Group

Thales today ranks as the leading global provider ofair traffic management solutions. Thales’s missionis to contribute to the future prosperity of the civilaerospace sector by providing equipment, systemsand services - both in the air and on the ground -to support air traffic controllers, airports and civilaviation authorities in meeting the challengesof growth, safety, economic and environmentalperformance, security and passenger comfort.I-4D flight, to have passed successfully important validationsfor D-Taxi and SWIM.Key Figures• No.1 worldwide in air trafficmanagement.• More than 40% of the world’sairspace is managedby Thales airtraffic control centres.• Thales equipment used by two‐thirds of the aircraftthat take off.Thales holds a dominant role in the Air Traffic Managementmarket across the globe. Thales holds undisputed dominant rolesin Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Asia. Whilst in Europe, itsbirthplace, Thales has been developing and applying the verylatest ATM technologies to serve the world’s most densely packedair traffic network.Our CredentialsMore than 240 TopSky-ATM solutions are deployed worldwide.More than 600 radars and 1,000 ADS-B stations have beensupplied by Thales worldwide. Thales is the only company in theworld to supply all the components needed for Air Traffic Control(automation, communications, navigation, surveillance).TopSky – ATM SolutionsTopSky – ATC is designed by controllers for controllers, over 130control centres are deployed worldwide. This modular systemcovers over 40% of the world’s surface. The Thales TopSky - ATMSolutions portfolio is the most complete automation solutionsincluding TopSky – Simulation, TopSky – AIM, TopSky-AMHS,TopSky – Tower and TopSky-ATFM.SESARThales is the first industry partner in SESAR. Thales is dedicatingmore than 250 experts to this major european project. Thalesis extremely proud to have contributed to the success of the firstAsiaThroughout 2012 Thales showed how forging local networksin Asia spells dominance. Thales is a key player in the areaproviding top of the art solutions to Singapore, Australia,China… Thales already has an overwhelming dominancein Eastern Asia and last year won important contracts incomplex markets such as China.AfricaThales TopSky - ATC has become the most ubiquitous ATMsystem in the continent. Thales air traffic management sitescover 60% of the region’s air traffic. Thales have a strongpartnership with ASECNA who control 17 countries airspace,1.5 times the size of Europe’s. Thales also covers SouthAfrica’s national airspace and surrounding ocean areas (over32 million square km) – handling 500, 000 air movementseach year.Latin AmericaThales is the regional leader in navigation and surveillance,supplying 50% of all the operational surveillance radars and180 navaids. Latin America is the area that uses the widestvariety of Thales ATM products. Thales has also installedmore than 100 radars for the Brazilian civil aviation authority(DECEA) to provide comprehensive nationwide coverage.Press ContactThales, Media Relations – Civil AerospaceGiaime PorcuTel: +33 6 88 23 84 79Giaime.porcu@thalesgroup.com