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European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company is Europe's premier aerospace and defence company and No. 3 worldwide. EADS comprises the activities of the
founding partners Aerospatiale Matra S.A. (France),
Construcciones Aeronáuticas S.A. (Spain)
and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (Germany).

EADS is a worldwide leader several markets: commercial launchers (Ariane),
commercial and military helicopters (Eurocopter), commercial aircraft (Airbus),
missiles (MBDA, LFK), satellites (EADS holds 75 percent of Astrium),
military aircraft (43 percent of Eurofighter, 46.5 percent of DASSAULT)
and military transport aircraft.

EADS Corporate Research Centres, with sites in Germany, Spain and France,
provide world-class research capabilities in main aeronautics research topics
such as materials, processes, structure engineering, systems environment
and information technologies for engineering. They contribute to added value by
shared research activities with EADS Business Units (as core actor within the EADS Research and Technology network) and with external research organisations
and universities as well as other industrials.

EADS CCR is the French part of EADS Corporate Research Centre.
It is a “Groupement d’Intérêt Economique” (G.I.E.), whose members are
AIRBUS-France (40%), EADS France (40%), MBDA-France (10%)
and EADS Launch Vehicules (10%). EADS CCR has a permanent staff of 300 people, 60% of which are senior scientists, located in two Centers :
Suresnes and Toulouse.

Its objective is to carry out research activities, which require a concentration
of skills or equipment and which correspond to cross-Business Units interest
in the following technical fields :
Systems (including lightning protection, electromagnetic compatibility, optics and lasers), Materials and structures, High performance scientific computing
Information technology for engineering.