Developing a sustainable, autonomous and intelligent airspace

Harnessing a network of opportunity across the sky

Thales’s world-leading connectivity solutions enable sustainable, autonomous and intelligent aviation for civil and military aircraft.

By working in partnership with key stakeholders across the aerospace industry, we create innovative solutions to our customers’ problems, support their aims and realise their ambitions.

Looking to the future, we are redefining what is possible to create a connected airspace that we can all trust.

Three key drivers of capability

Security

We’re creating more intelligent aircraft by enabling growth of a network-centric airspace with safe, easy and secure access to data-based services.

Sustainability

We’re making aviation more environmentally friendly and reducing our carbon footprint through connectivity links that enable you to fly in the most efficient way possible.

Autonomy

We’re pushing the boundaries of what is possible, by developing secure connectivity solutions that enable autonomous unmanned aircraft to deliver passengers and emergency equipment to their destinations safely.

 

Making a difference with design thinking

By partnering with civil and military customers across the aerospace industry, we can fully
understand your communications and connectivity needs and jointly develop solutions to
support new ways of working. This collaborative approach will yield benefit that include:

  •  Agile capability development
  • Improved efficiency in operations
  • Reduced environmental impact
  • Optimised safety and security
  • A reduction in costs and improved value for money

 

Skyrocketing capability within comms and connectivity

Thales’ connectivity experience is wide and highly developed. As we look to the future, we are focusing on the following areas:

Why Thales?

Thales is a specialist in comms and connectivity, with experience that dates back over 40 years. We have developed world class products such as Top Flight Satcom and our European Aviation Network success has seen high-speed in-flight connectivity dramatically enhance passenger experience for people across the continent.

Part of our success is due to our commitment to invest in developing new ideas and approaches that will benefit our customers. Examples of this include the SAVANA project for networking building blocks, CleanSky2 for distributed communications architectures and HICLASS for SOC in the sky.

We also maintain strategic links with universities such as Cranfield and Southampton to underpin our innovation. We also participate in key working groups in this domain, including: EUROCAE WG-96 on Wireless Intra-Aircraft Communications (WAIC), ARINC APIM CNS SDR architecture.

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