Barco and ales team up to provide turnkey Local Situational Awarene solutions for armoured vehicles

11 September 2013

DSEI, London 11th September 2013 - Visualization experts Barco and the optronics business of Thales UK, a leader in military vehicle sensor systems, are pooling their expertise and experience in digital video electronic architectures to provide turnkey Local Situational Awareness (LSA) solutions for armoured vehicles.

The new partnership creates a scalable, innovative approach to LSA systems that will enable armoured vehicle manufacturers, integrators and operators to cut costs, reduce risk and save time compared to when integrating solutions separately.

The world's leading armoured vehicle manufacturers and system integrators choose Thales and Barco for their LSA systems. Barco supplies rugged displays, computers and networked visualization systems while Thales provides market-leading military weapon aiming and surveillance systems, advanced processing and sensors technology. All are selected for their innovative features and high-quality imagery, as well as their compliance to the latest vehicle architecture standards for land army applications.

The British Army's Specialist Vehicle (Scout SV) programme, for example, employs a Barco's gunner and commander crew stations, triple-head driver's displays, and ultra-low latency video processing unit, together with Thales weapons sighting and LSA sensor system, including stabilised digital gunnery and panoramic sights, daylight, low-light and thermal imaging camera clusters. All LSA system elements comply with the UK MoD's latest Defence Standard 23-09 for Generic Vehicle Architectures.

We both have ample expertise and experience in developing digital video electronic architectures for defence applications, each with our own area of technical expertise. This has led to multiple common references around the world, confirms Steven Luys, Vice-President Strategic Marketing Defense & Aerospace at Barco. Barco and Thales share a common passion for innovation and a sense of customer focus. We are both global market leaders, so it is logical to join forces and bundle our products into an all-in-one, ready-integrated LSA solution, instead of delivering each system independently.

By working closely together, we can help our customers save the costs, time and risk normally associated with large development programmes, said Marion Broughton, Vice President of Land and Air Systems at Thales UK. We are confident that our new partnership and the joint solutions it enables will be a bid-winning formula for success that will be very positively received in the industry.

Built on a flexible architecture to match customer specifications and budgets for any vehicle application, the Barco-Thales LSA system is a turnkey solution for Driver Vision Enhancement and LSA systems. It will include multiple camera clusters and sensors, video distribution, as well as display solutions for commander, gunner, crew station and driver positions. Advanced processing capabilities are available to deliver additional functionality such as assisted target detection.

The joint solution will be demonstrated at the Barco stand (N3-620) at the DSEI exhibition in London from 10th to 13th September 2013.

About Thales and Thales UK

Thales is a global technology leader in the Aerospace, Transportation and Defence & Security markets. In 2012, the company generated revenues of 14.2 billion (equivalent of £11.5 billion) with 65,000 employees in 56 countries. With its 25,000 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and services that meet the most complex security requirements. Thales has an exceptional international footprint, with operations around the world working with customers and local partners.

Thales UK employs 7,500 staff based at 35 locations. In 2012 Thales UKs revenues were around £1.3 billion. www.thalesgroup.com/uk

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About Barco

Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with about 3,900 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of 1.156 billion euros in 2012.

Press contacts:

Thales, Media Relations- Land & Naval Defence

Sonia Le Gu vel

Tel : +33 6 31 31 31 36

Email: sonia.leguevel@thalesgroup.com

Barco NV - Press and PR EMEA & LATAM

Lynn Ryon

Tel : +32 56 36 81 66

Email: lynn.ryon@barco.com

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