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the customer,” says Siegfried Usal, Vice
President, Strategy, Research andTechnol-
ogy. “Through software and systems, you
are able to build efficiencies by optimiz-
ing energy usage and minimizing the cost
while having more throughput. It is also
environmentally friendly because it is all
about software—not adding costly trains
and other systems.”
DEFENCE AND SECURITY
For more than 50 years, Thales Canada has
been a major supplier and a long-term part-
ner to DND, enabling the Canadian Armed
Forces to work with
optimum safety and
information. As a
Prime Contractor
and systems inte-
grator for defence
and security in
Canada, Thales de-
livers world-class
products like sen-
sors radars and
sonars, as well as
is the primary sup-
plier of developed
command control
systems.
More recently in-
volved in Canadian
National Shipbuild-
ing Strategy, Thales
is partnering with Seaspan’s Vancouver
Shipyards (VSY) electronic system integra-
tion for joint support for both the Navy and
Coast Guard vessels.This role encompass-
es the design, development, integration
and installation activities for all commu-
nications, navigation, command and sur-
veillance, bridge systems and the mission
packages onboard the non-combat ships.
“Our real added value is the software that
runs all of the algorithms that then takes
that information and turns it into decision-
making information that the command-
