Thales enables 2 out of every 3 flights globally
We ensure every flight is safe and efficient, 24 hours a day, every single day of the year. As a world leader in air traffic management, we offer integrated gate-to-gate solutions, from pre-flight through to landing, ensuring airport safety, security, efficient traffic handling operations, data sharing on aircraft and seamless handover operations between territories. Our products already cover 40% of the world’s airspace and our foot print continues to grow.
From take-off to landing, Thales offers the most complete range of solutions to address all Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Traffic Management needs to provide dynamic Air Traffic Control) to support today’s growing domestic and international travel requirements.
Thales Air Traffic Management and Air Mobility Systems are highly adaptable and designed to support current and future civil and military air traffic management needs. Maximising passenger and operator safety and situational awareness, our solutions and services are made to transform operational capabilities while reducing fuel usage and CO2 emissions.
In Australia, we provide our customers with the most adapted Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Traffic Management (CNS/ATM/UTM) solutions, offering them a unique global capability.
Sovereign Airspace Management
In 1994, Airservices Australia, responsible for Australia’s sovereign airspace, awarded Thales a contract to develop the Australian Advanced Air Traffic Control System (TAAATS).
TAAATS was successfully delivered to Airservices Australia in 1997 and has been progressively enhanced and modernised to reflect changing technologies and requirements and as such is one of the world’s most advanced Air Traffic Management systems.
Following this success , experience, knowledge and the investments to create a sovereign ATM capability in Australia, Thales Australia is currently developing the worlds truly first fully harmonised Civil Military Air Traffic Management System (OneSky Australia), for Airservices Australia and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), to navigate 11 per cent of the world's airspace.
Melbourne Centre of Excellence for Air Traffic Management
Thales Australia’s Melbourne Centre of Excellence for Air Traffic Management (ATM) develops and exports TopSky and related systems throughout Asia-Pacific region and beyond to Africa and the Middle East. Thales TopSky solutions, including surveillance and navigations solutions, are deployed in nearly all countries in Asia Pacific. Key customers utilising ATM systems in Asia Pacific include Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, French Polynesia, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, New Zealand , Papua New Guinea and Thailand and more.
With dedicated offices in Singapore and Beijing, and associated Thales offices in most capital cities throughout the region, Thales has been delivering systems, services and support to Asia-Pacific over 40 years.
Australia’s economy and national development demand that Australia continues to build its skills for safety critical systems and successfully compete its products and services on the world stage.
Thales has invested in the development of software products and services in Melbourne that have been successfully exported worldwide. Through our sovereign Australian capability, we continue to remain dedicated to growing our Australian operations, engineering and services workforce as well as to continuing our significant contribution to the Australian economy.
Our capability as a prime systems integrator for complex turnkey CNS/ATM/UTM means Thales can be a trusted partner to develop, deploy, integrate, operate, service and support complex critical national ATM infrastructure using Thales and 3rd party systems, for our clients.
We are investing in Australia’s future with world leading technology and over 480 high tech jobs in Melbourne. Our Australian Graduate program assists with the development of the new generation of skilled people who will deliver the services necessary to support the future growth of the dynamic and changing Australian based Aviation sector.
SKYLAB Australia is a key part of Thales's global innovation network, created to enhance research collaboration between universities, public research laboratories, and leading industry players. Working closely with other Group’s innovation labs in Europe, USA and Asia, SKYLAB Australia develops innovative solutions to make air travel safer, more efficient, and greener, while providing benefits to both local and international Air Navigation Service Providers.
Inaugurated in March 2011 in Melbourne, Australia, this 400m², state-of-the-art creative workspace is dedicated to research in Air Traffic Management (ATM), Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM), and Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM). SKYLAB Melbourne serves as a crucial incubator for advancing Thales's ATM/UTM solutions, offering a platform for developing new capabilities.
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