Thales

Thales is a defense electronics company in aerospace and defense industries. It came into being with the merger of Alcatel, Dassault Electronic and Thomson CSF and inherited the latter company’s naval activity, which it has developed in recent years. Thales now operates in 50 countries and has become a leading player in the defense industry.

CANADAFRANCE 10/07/2013

New software provides smartphone security

Companies can now buy software programs that make mobile telephones secure. [...]

Insiders FRANCEMIDDLE EAST 02/07/2013

Iskandar Safa, deep sea stealth networking

Iskandar Safa, who earned his nickname of Sandy during his youth as part of the Lebanese Christian militia, is an export agent who switched successfully to industry but who, in 2013, is still active as a business intermediary. As an industrialist, he reigns over a veritable shipbuilding empire which produces yachts and patrol boats. He has owned Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN) in Cherb [...]

Spotlight FRANCEQATAR 26/06/2013

Soulié, deal broker for French groups

Qatar, which President François Hollande visited on June 22-23, is not only Paris' ally in the Middle East and a principal foreign investor in France, it is also a key country for French groups such as Thales and Total. French [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 26/06/2013

"Dr Amin", the offset consultant

Amin Badr El Din, who devised the United Arab Emirates' offset programme, is now in the private sector marketing his know-how as a consultant to governments. [...]

FRANCE 12/06/2013

Reaper doth not come

The Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM) thinks it will not have the two Reaper MQ-9 drones it has ordered from [...]

FRANCE 12/06/2013

Watchkeeper tested

While the French government grapples with its MALE drone issues, [...]

SAUDI ARABIAFRANCE 29/05/2013

Mohamed bin Nayef

Mohamed bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia's interior minister, attended a gala [...]

FRANCE 15/05/2013

Decision time for SOFEMA

SOFEMA, the former French state owned military exports agency, seems poised for a shareholder shakeup. The company’s board meets on June 3. [...]

FRANCE 15/05/2013

Soulie's last stand

French consultant Jean-Paul Soulie, still unstoppable at 70, is trying to mobilise his old network of contacts in Canada to [...]

Insiders EUROPEMIDDLE EAST 14/05/2013

Dominique de Villepin, businessman poet

Since 2008, Dominique de Villepin has been reaping the benefits of a network of business contacts built up over 30 years in the corridors of power. His law firm, Villepin international, which opened in April 2008, is devoted to his new profession of business facilitator. De Villepin, who was Jacques Chirac's prime minister from 2005 to 2007, is discreet about the identities of his customers and th [...]

QATAR 24/04/2013

Thales and Soulie settle, say sources

Thales has reached an out-of-court financial settlement with consultant Jean-Paul [...]

Spotlight FRANCE 13/03/2013

French groups tout cyber-guard

It is the eternal irony of cyber-security: while the government has the financial means and the tools to protect its computer networks, for the most part, actual attacks tend to be carried out on more vulnerable private sector networks. In [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 13/03/2013

IGG thinks big in Abu Dhabi defence

International Golden Group is positioning itself alongside the Emirati state-owned Tawazun and Mubadala as the go-to partner for Western defence companies in the Emirates. [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 27/02/2013

Ex-Thales exec goes it alone

Olivier Badard, the former Middle East director of Thales, is the latest French defence industry executive to carve a new [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATESFRANCE 13/02/2013

Luc Vigneron

Luc Vigneron, the former CEO of Thales, is rumoured in [...]

FRANCE 13/02/2013

Diades software locates real pirates

Coast guard services and shipping companies now have access to ‘anti-pirate’ radar technology developed for the French Navy. [...]

TURKEY 30/01/2013

MIT pursues big ambitions

Turkey’s Milli Istihbarat Teskilati (MIT) intelligence service is looking to boost its capacities as the new agency responsible for anti-terrorism and interception. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 30/01/2013

Page Group’s EU double whammy

Stuart Page’s private security company Page Group has had its EU security contract in Afghanistan renewed, and it has also been contracted to protect European diplomats in Gaza. [...]

FRANCE 16/01/2013

Jean-Bernard Levy

Jean-Bernard Levy, who succeeded Luc Vigneron as head of Thales [...]

SAUDI ARABIAQATAR 16/01/2013

Gulf states get into spy satellites

After the United Arab Emirates, Qatar is now looking to have its own military observation satellite, and Saudi Arabia is expected to be next. [...]