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Thales at the heart of Europe’s Clean Sky programme

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December 11, 2008

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Neuilly-sur-Seine, 11 December 2008 – Thales today announced its satisfaction at a series
of significant new milestones marking progress on Europe’s €1.6 billion Clean Sky Joint
Technology Initiative (JTI).
November 2008 saw the signature of two major agreements within the JTI. The first marks
the contractual launch of the Thales-DLR1 led Technology Evaluator, designed to assess and
evaluate the environmental impact of the technologies created within each of Clean Sky’s six
Integrated Technology Demonstrators (ITDs). The other signals the contractual launch of one
of the aforementioned ITDs: “Systems for Green Operations”, which Thales is leading in
conjunction with Liebherr.
The Technology Evaluator lies at the operational heart of Clean Sky and represents a budget
of €31 million. Overall, seventeen players are involved in Technology Evaluator research: the
twelve major industry players who founded Clean Sky, combined with universities and
members of the research community from across Europe. It will carry out the vital role of
analysing and evaluating the design results of each ITD before using them to simulate the
concept of what the air transport system could become using traffic growth and route
forecasts from 2020 and beyond. It will also facilitate design choices for optimal synergy.
Thales’s involvement in the Technology Evaluator is in line with the work carried out in-house
on the Airlab initiative, which provides a technical and operational simulation environment for
civil air transport to simulate the networking and interoperability of onboard and ground
systems.
The Systems for Green Operations ITD, with a budget of more than €300 million, aims at
addressing two different sets of systems: those related to the management of trajectory and
missions, and those related to the development of onboard electrical systems. Within this
framework, Thales will be looking to develop the navigation technology and Flight
Management Systems (FMS) set to equip the future generations of aircraft, as well as
continuing to innovate in the quest for tomorrow’s all-electric aircraft.
Thales is present across five of the six ITDs (the exception being the “Engines” ITD) and is
looking forward to leveraging its renowned expertise across the whole of the air transport
chain. The company’s systems of systems approach will be particularly valuable in the
research being carried out on the Technology Evaluator.
François Quentin, Thales, Senior Vice President in charge of aerospace activities said: “The
Clean Sky approach is very much in line with Thales’s systems-oriented approach,
considering the air transport function as an integrated system in which all systems are
interdependent and interoperable. Our positioning on the Technology Evaluator is indicative
of our rise up the value chain, while our frontline role on the Systems for Green Operations
ITD will consolidate our credentials in the fields of electrical systems and trajectory
management.”

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