The size of a milk carton, a quantum RF antenna has the potential of replacing a wide range of traditional, much larger antennas. At the joint lab of Thales and CNRS, near Paris, Juan Trastoy and his fellow researchers are putting their award-winning innovation on the path to maturity.
In a virtual roundtable, Canon Production Printing, NXP, Philips, Thales, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Vanderlande discuss how the increasing system complexity has impacted the role of the system engineer. Their consensus: software has shuffled the cards.
Imagine a system that, once turned on, will stay on for the rest of its life. Neither hardware failures nor code glitches can bring it down. At Thales, chief software architect René van Hees is putting his shoulders to the wheel to make this dream a reality.
As of this year, Thales and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are part of the partner board of ESI, the embedded systems joint innovation center of the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO).
Thales and the University of Twente (UT) have extended their collaboration to include multidisciplinary topics such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Once a research project initiated by ESI (TNO) and Philips, the Comma framework is developing into a mature product for creating and managing software interfaces. Now, Thales is also looking to use it to streamline its software engineering, as are Thermo Fisher Scientific and Kulicke & Soffa. “Comma is the place where you express everything you want and from there, you generate everything you need, like documentation, monitoring, simulation, visualization and, as of recently, test cases.”
Thales gaat een geavanceerd vuurleidingsysteem ontwikkelen voor de nieuwe fregatten van de Nederlandse en Belgische marine.
Samen met de Koninklijke Landmacht heeft Thales een nieuwe radarsysteem ontwikkeld dat zowel het luchtruim als grondbewegingen in de gaten kan houden.
Defensie, NLR en Thales gaan samen werken aan een systeem om militaire luchtbeeldinformatie snel en veilig te delen met civiele partners.
Met zijn nieuwe Smart-L Multi Mission-radar is Thales erin geslaagd een ballistische raket te detecteren en meer dan driehonderd seconden te volgen zonder onderbreking.
