Thales is a leading international group, addressing Defence, Aerospace and Security markets worldwide, supported by a comprehensive services offering.
Thales's expertise in its core markets spans the entire value chain, providing all the capabilities its customers require, from equipment and systems to comprehensive support services, and including prime contracting on large-scale programmes. Thales's leading-edge technology is supported by 22 000 R&D engineers who offer a capability unmatched in Europe to develop and deploy field-proven mission-critical information systems. To this end, the group's civil and military businesses develop in parallel and share a common base of technologies to serve a single objective: the security of people, property and nations. The group builds its growth on its unique multi-domestic strategy based on trusted partnerships with national customers and market players, while leveraging its global expertise to support local technology and industrial development. Thales employs 68 000 people in 50 countries with revenues in 2007 of € 12.3 billion
Within Thales, the Software Core for Computer based systems Group (SC2) located in Massy (France) has a mission to study and provide middleware solutions for future Thales systems and is acting for the whole Thales group. SC2 has contributed to a number of Europeans and industrial projects in the field of the real time, embedded systems and system of systems as well. These projects include the RNTL project Flex-eWare (leader) and ITEA2 projects S4ALL and SEMEASY (leader), which deal deeply with the use of semantic in order to improve interoperability of components or systems.
