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Thales

A global leader dedicated to security

Bruno Rondani

bruno.rondani@thalesgroup.com

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Profile

Three core businesses

Aerospace & Space

Defence

Security

A Worldwide Group

68,000 employees worldwide

Presence in 50 countries

World leader for mission-critical information systems

€12.9 bn annual revenues}

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Three core businesses

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Three strategic pillars

Presence all along the value chain

From equipment and systems, to systems integration

Prime contracting and services

Dual technologies

Balanced portfolio between defence and civil businesses

Optimised synergies

International presence

Long-term customer partnership

Maximised local commercial opportunities

Access to local skills and resources

Meeting national security requirements

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Highly talented people

68,000 employees of whom 50% outside France

Highly skilled (e.g. 60% of workforce are engineers or managers)

Multicultural teams unified by the same values

Focus on customers

Innovate, decide and act quickly

Perform through teaming

Develop our people

Dynamic HR policy

Renowned training structure: Thales University

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Worldwide presence

France: 34,300USA: 2,200

Australia: 3,600

Others: China: 390 / South Africa: 340 / Switzerland: 290 / Singapore: 240 / India: 200 / Austria: 200 /

Norway: 180 / Portugal: 160 / Poland: 130

Canada: 1,200UK: 8,200

Germany: 4,500

Spain: 2,100

South Korea: 1,370

Netherlands: 2,000

Italy: 2,600

Belgium: 950Latin America: 660

(Brasil: 350)

Saudi Arabia: 730

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Market-driven businesses

Domains

Transportation

Systems

Civil

Land

Defence

Defence

Mission

Systems

Defence

SpaceAir

Operations

Defence &

Security C4I

Systems

Avionics

Dual

A coherent organisation

Bringing to our customers the benefit of technology expertise

and international presence

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Innovation and technological excellence

R&D at Thales totals € 2.5bn (20% of revenues)

25,000 researchers and engineers on cutting-edge technologies

300 inventions per year

Over 15,000 patents

Over 30 cooperation agreements with universities and public

research laboratories in Europe, the United States and Asia

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Innovation Culture

innovation should be driven by customer demand and the

need to anticipate future needs

Culture change

“customer-centric approach”

“inventing for the sake of inventing”

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R&D Scope Definition

Products

Prospects

Bids

Programmes

3 4 5 6 7

Technology readiness level

New

Technology

Concepts

Architecture

Tools

3 4 5 621

Engineering: “pull approach”

7 8 9

Research & Technology: “push approach”

Research Maturation & Risk reduction

Pre Bid analysis &

derisking

Bid Development

Integration

Validation

Production Support

& Maintenance

Research (concept, architecture, new tech) : TRL 1-3 ==> 5 - 15 years

Feasibility & De-risking : TRL 3-6 ==> 2 - 5 years

Development & Engineering : TRL 6-9 ==> 1 - 2 years

~ 12% of R&D

Investments

~ 88% of R&D

Investments

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Thales Research & Technology Organisation

Thales Research Centers

France

Palaiseau

United Kingdom

Reading

Nederland

Delft

Singapore

• Master new technologies, new concepts

• Deliver first technological demonstrators

5 Key Technology Domains, transverse organisation to drive:

R&T orientations and technologies axes

Transportation

Systems

Civil

Land

Defence

Defence

Mission

Systems

Defence

SpaceAir

Operations

Defence &

Security C4I

Systems

Avionics

Dual

The vast majority of the R&D is performed within the Divisions

TRT Corporate Labs – around 4% of total R&D budget

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Innovation Organisation

R&D policy is coordinated by the CTO office, is implemented through:

- The Divisons: business focus and in charge of the short and medium term developments required for their equipment and systems product lines

- KTD governance with the goal the provide the global R&T coherence, and transfer research results to programs

- The TRT network: They anticipate future breakthroughs, establish connections to academic innovation eco-systems, and should maintain high level of expertise in key technologies

Thales R&D is largely decentralized

Corporate R&T Laboratory is highly focused on external coolaborations

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Cooperation Strategy

Cooperation actions:

Long term scientific agreements most famous research laboratories

Cooperation with other industrial labs

Cooperation with technological SMEs

Demonstration platforms build with partners and clients

Cooperation framework:

Common laboratories,

Common programs and projects

Research contracts

Joint-ventures

More than 400 people are currently working for Thales in these cooperative framework programs

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Innovation Strategy

R&D corporate mission:

Competitiveness:

Give a proper access to key critical technologies,

Control of the supply chain

Adapt development process for the complexity we have to deal with

Attractiveness:

Innovate

Look for disruptive technologies

Look for disruptive ways to design, develop, integrate solutions

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Innovation Strategy

Open Innovation

Acceleration of the Insertion of New Technologies

Anticipation of Ruptures – not only technical ones

Efficiency Optimization

Four R&D Strategic Directions:

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Thales Group: Innovation Strategy

Open Innovation

- A number of innovations will be discovered in other places

- Fosters collaborations with universities, research institutes, SMEs and suppliers

- Participation on competitiveness cluster and European collaborative projects

- High visibility in scientific community

- Attract young and brilliant engineers

The concept of “innovation” ecosystem, local and global,

is hence central to Thales R&D strategy

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Innovation Strategy

Acceleration of the Insertion of New Technologies

- Key Technical Domains (KTD) is a commonly shared governance of technical activities performed in Divisions and in the central teams

- Ensure global coherence of advanced R&T studies: optimize, rationalize resources, share results, set common strategic directions

- Accelerate de-risk transfer of R&D results towards programs

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Software & Critical Information Systems

Hardware

Networks &Secure Communications

Security

Processing, Control and Cognition

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Innovation Strategy

Anticipation of Ruptures – not only technical ones

- Technical Strategy Plan (TSP) provides the technical visions and road-maps for the next 10 years

- The vision can’t be only internal: capture the customer’s needs

- Concept Development and Experimentation Approach (CD&E): Battlespace Transformation Center, it is in way a co-innovationprocess with the customer

- Study on general trends for the evolution of our technical skills: business model evolution, technology evolution, supply chain, development tools, partnerships, etc

- Training programs, mobility actions and targeted recruitments

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Innovation Strategy

Efficiency Optimization

R&D engineering efficiency optimization through three levers:

- Strengthening a coherent and efficient “design authority” organization through out the Group

- Facilitate peer engineering, reviews in order to get a strong early warning approach on bids and programs

- Improve competitiveness and risk management of our development through a common tooled process approached, called Orchestra

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Thales Innovation Activities in Brazil

Omnisys is a Brazilian company that belongs to Thales Group since 2006, with great capacity to supply high technology solutions for civil, military and space applications.

2009 key figures:

Revenues: R$ 50M

290 Employees

Operations in 9 countries

Investing 15% of our revenues in Research and Development

Investment in a CMMI Level 3 software factory

Investing in order to provide leading edge technology with proven quality levels, complying with DO-178b and IEC61508 standards

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Thales Innovation Activities in Brazil

Omnisys has a group of 70 engineers and technicians in R&D, specialized in the

following areas:

Complex Electronic Hardware

Application Software

Embedded Software Systems (Real Time)

Specialist Software (Tracking Systems, Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing)

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Technological Routes in Brazil

1st Route – Land Surface

ATM Radars and Tracking Systems

2nd Route – Space

Communications systems, industrial processes

3rd Route – Above Water

Ship radars, electronic warfare, navigation systems

4th Route – Avionics

Airborne radars, electronic warfare

5th Route – Under Water

Sonar, on-board electronics

Thales

A global leader dedicated to security

Bruno Rondani

bruno.rondani@thalesgroup.com