THALES : Namibia inaugurates new Thales air traffic control centre
January 10, 2012 at 06:25 pm IST
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10 January 2012
Windhoek, Namibia, January 2012 - Three years after Thales
signed the contract with the Namibian Directorate of Civil
Aviation (NDCA), the country's new air traffic control
centre has now entered operational service. The inauguration
ceremony on 7 December 2011 at Windhoek was attended by His
Excellency Dr. Hifikepunye Pohamba, President of the Republic
of Namibia.
Under this contract, Thales supplied the latest version of
its Eurocat system, which fuses data from co-mounted Thales
primary and secondary radars at Windhoek Hosea Kutako
International Airport as well as from WAM stations supplied
by ERA. Eurocat also incorporates flight plan and ADS-C data
into the display system. Thanks to Eurocat's advanced
functionality, NDCA controllers are now able to guide
aircraft anywhere within Namibia's flight information
region with high levels of precision, safety and security.
This new configuration also enables Namibia to significantly
reduce aircraft separation within its airspace while
considerably enhancing flight safety at the same time.
The global leader in ATM systems and civil radar, Thales has
commissioned more than 160 Eurocat centres around the world,
equivalent to 2,000 controller positions.
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Thales is one of the European leaders in manufacturing and marketing of electronic equipment and systems for the defense and security, aerospace, and transportation sectors. Net sales break down by product group as follows:
- defense and security systems (53.4%): C4I defense and security systems (control and monitoring systems, communication, protection, cyber-security, and other systems), defense mission systems, naval systems, electronic war systems, drones, air operation systems (air defense, air surveillance), ground defense systems and missiles;
- aerospace systems (28.4%): avionics equipment (cockpit, cabin multimedia, and simulation equipment), space systems (satellites, payloads, etc.);
- digital identification and security solutions (18.2%).
Besides, the group owns a 35% stake in Naval Group (manufacture of naval equipment for defense and nuclear energy sectors).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (29.5%), the United Kingdom (6.6%), Europe (24.8%), the United States and Canada (14%), Asia (9.4%), Near and Middle East (6%), Australia and New Zealand (4.4%) and other (5.3%).
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