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THALES RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (UK) [TRT (UK)] is the UK arm of the Thales corporate research centre and provides close support to the various Thales operating companies. Thales designs, develops and implements advanced electronic solutions, which meet the communications, information and security requirements of people in countries throughout the world. Its activities cover three major markets:
Defence, Aerospace and Information Technology & Services.

Thales has global revenues of €11.5bn and employs 65,000 people; 12,000 of these are in the UK.

In addition to providing support for Thales business objectives, TRT (UK) offers a wide range of consultancy and development services to European Government Agencies and to industry throughout the world; examples include EC, NATO, ESA, INMARSAT, DSTL, DTI, Aerospatiale, Alcatel and GMV. Since 1983, innovative products have resulted in Thales companies being awarded nine Queen’s Awards for Technological Achievement. For many of these products TRT (UK) has provided
the key technology that has led to market success.

TRT has experience in the development of modems for a variety of radio applications and also has extensive experience in GNSS. It was involved in the development of SATFON and multi-channel SATCOM modems.