Thales

Thales has been present in Brazil for 55 years and has more than 1,200 employees. Thales is headquartered in São Bernardo do Campo (SP), the company has four commercial offices located in São Paulo (SP), São José dos Campos (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and Brasília (DF) – and three manufacturing plants – in São Bernardo do Campo (SP), which houses its subsidiary Omnisys with an industrial unit dedicated to Defense and Avionics activities. in Pinhais (PR) for the production of high quality polycarbonate bank cards, SIM Cards and electronic documents, and in Barueri (SP) for the personalization of bank cards.

With more than half a century of presence in Brazil, Thales has built a long-term partnership with the Armed Forces – Brazilian Army, Brazilian Air Force and Brazilian Navy – and maintains strong relationships with other government and national agencies, banks, telecommunications companies, airlines and technology companies to provide cutting-edge technology solutions.

Defense, security, aerospace, digital identity and security: Thales supports

its customers in their most critical missions. By 2022, the group of more than 77,000

employees in 68 countries generated sales of €17.6 billion.

Products and services

Thales operates in all aerospace segments in Brazil and is the market leader in surveillance radars and air traffic control in the country. In total, Thales supplies 100% of approach radars, >80% of en-route radars and >70% of secondary radars, with a total of more than 130 radars throughout the country. The Group is also an avionics supplier for airlines Azul, LATAM and GOL, among others in the region, and also for helicopter manufacturers Helibras and Embraer aircraft.
Thales is collaborating with Embraer on the development of the eVTOL, an electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle.
Defense and Security :
Omnisys, its Brazilian high-tech subsidiary, with extensive experience in the civil, space, data protection, defense and security markets. Omnisys developed and supplied a highly complex and fully transportable Test Field Instrumentation System (STREV) for the Brazilian Army’s Evaluation Center (CAEx). Omnisys is also a supplier to the Brazilian Navy for the development of the Mansup Seeker (surface anti-ship missile) and critical systems for the Brazilian Submarine Strategic Defense Program (PROSUB) – for sonar, communications and electronic warfare.
Space:
It brings connectivity to millions of people located in remote areas, which benefits, for example, more than 7,000 schools. In addition to SGDC, Thales is also present in the CBERS (Sino-Brazilian Earth Resources Satellite) and PMM (Multi-mission Platform) programs and Amazônia 1.
Digital Identity and Security:
A leading supplier of credit cards to financial institutions in Brazil, providing cards made of sustainable materials, with contact and contactless technology, as well as digital payment solutions. The Group is also the leading supplier of SIM Cards and eSIM (embedded SIM cards) and HSM (hardware security modules) in the country. Thales’ technologies enabled the creation of an IoT M2M tracking device to detect illegal deforestation plans in the Amazon rainforest.
Transportation:
In 2016, Thales provided communication, signaling and location systems for the first and most modern light rail transit (LRT) in Santos, SP – Brazil.

Certifications

• EASA (since 2020)
• ANAC RBAC 145 (since 2021)
• AEO-Compliance Level 2 (since 2021)
• AEO-Security (since 2021)
• ISO 9001 (since /2008)
• ISO 14001 (since 2020)
• CMMI-DEV3 (since 2021)

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