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Specialising in the defence, aerospace, security and services markets, Thales UK is a major electronics company that has grown to be a significant industrial force. Over the last few years, Thales has strengthened its industrial presence in the UK through £2bn of acquisitions, resulting in 90% of UK sales being sourced from within the UK.

Part of the £7 billion global Thales Group, which employs 60,000 staff in over 50 countries, Thales UK employs 10,000 people, of whom 4,000 are engineers. In 2005,Thales UK's revenues over £1bn.of which 30% was for export. The company's technology, based on both civil and military capabilities, is world class and its plants and employees in the UK make a significant contribution to the nation's economy, its technical capability and its industrial base.

Thales has UK centres of excellence in air defence, optronics, naval communications, electronic warfare, surveillance radar, training & simulation, e-security and global positioning. The UK Research and Development (R&D) facility has world-class capabilities in navigation, electronic warfare and networks.

Thales UK is a company that can be trusted, as a prime contractor, supplier, partner and employer of choice. It continues to develop its capabilities in the United Kingdom and is committed to understanding and serving the needs of all of its customers, and to delivering high quality, cost effective solutions.

As well as being selected as part of the Alliance to build the new Aircraft Carriers for the Royal Navy, Thales has also been selected to supply the WATCHKEEPER Unmanned Aerial Vehicle programme. The company has also been awarded the FIST assessment phase contract and is leading the Electronic Architecture and Integrated Survivability TDPs for the FRES programme.

TRL Technology has a long-standing track record for delivering sophisticated intelligence gathering and countermeasures tools to governments and defence organisations around the world, including extensive contract activity with the UK Ministry of Defence and government agencies.

TRL Technology's expertise encompasses solutions for tracing, locating and monitoring transmissions, as well as for ensuring secure communications. A global customer base underlines TRL Technology's specialist capabilities - today, the company is active in over 40 countries. A flexible, customer-focused organisation, the company operates from a number of secure sites near Tewkesbury in the UK.

Its comprehensive facilities include in-house design, development, documentation, training and customer support systems, complemented by on-site manufacturing and complete systems support facilities. TRL Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of TRL Electronics plc, achieved a turnover of Sterling £22.1 million (FY '04-'05) and employs over 250 staff, comprising skilled engineers and technicians.

Established as "an overflowing fountain of the Sciences", the University of Glasgow today maintains its tradition of innovation in research, learning and knowledge transfer. This often requires the development and support of partnerships and collaborative teams that cross borders, disciplines, and industries. Such teams create a focus for excellent international researchers, many of whom are also our near neighbours. We recognise that there are still things to learn, and understand that scientific progress is sustained by an ongoing exchange of information and ideas.

Engineering and scientific strengths include:-

EM Radiation source and sensing technologies
- e.g. THz devices, Optoelectronics & Computational Electromagnetics

Electronic Design, Modelling and Fabrication
- e.g. GaAs High Speed devices, bio-electronics; and nanotechnology

Detector Processing Systems & Techniques
- e.g. Foveated Vision, Remote radiation survey, X-ray and Neutron detection

Aerodyamics & Avionic Control
- e.g. Control of Sensor Platforms, Low Speed and UAV Flight Dynamics and Aerodynamics

Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering

For more details and other ideas, please visit us on the stand at DTC, phone or e-mail. We're always happy to hear from you.

Glasgow University is also active in many other fields. While practical developments in medicine, genetics, and veterinary research seldom have immediate applications in Aerospace, many of today's underlying scientific developments are linked to new insights outwith their own immediate discipline, and occasionally provide a fresh perspective from which to tackle future challenges.

Our need to stay competitive in international research requires continuous reinvestment in a broad range of facilities and infrastructure. Access to these - and where necesary the associated research teams - is available for external partners who are in turn developing their own innovative technologies and techniques. Examples include:-

Nanofabrication. The James Watt Nanofabrication Centre is a state of the art laboratory for the fabrication of complex heterogeneous nano-systems.

Materials Characterisation. The Kelvin Nanocharacterisation Centre develops imaging, diffraction and analytical techniques to characterise advanced functional and structural materials, enabling improved performance in specific applications.

Wind Tunnel Facilities. The Handley-Page and Argyll wind tunnels are complemented by expertise in experimental setup and analysis, including low speed and flow visualisation facilities.

Our research and knowledge transfer activity complements Glasgow's other strengths in Learning & Study development. Glasgow's students are an investment, and their courses relate to the latest developments in the many fields of Science and Engineering.

ADS Programme at Glasgow University
The ADS Programme being pioneered at Glasgow University - but with hopes to expand - recognises the importance of the Aerospace, Defence and Security sectors to the UK economy. Along with the Medical and Biosciences, R&D activity is dominated by the activity in these markets.

With our partners at Scottish Enterprise, and with support through the ERDF and the Scottish Executive SEEKIT scheme, the ADS Programme will work to benefit the Scottish economy. Part of this we intend will benefit the large multinational companies who drive the global economy. Part must be played by other smaller High Technology companies operating in and around the ADS and related sectors, who so often lead the processes of innovation.

Part will be played by the Universities and Colleges in Scotland and the UK through their leading edge research activities and through the training of new researchers. In attempting to connect these strands, our plans include the running of technical focus workshops and related briefing sessions on contractual and market developments.

If you don't already have contacts with Glasgow University, one of our roles is to make the appropriate introductions. In the ADS Programme we have ideas of our own, but welcome them from others too. We'll be at stand no.5 at the DTC conference, but if it's more convenient, please feel free to get in touch before or after the conference (Tel: 0141 330 3876, e-mail: ads@enterprise.gla.ac.uk)

Don Whiteford, ADS Programme, Glasgow University, 2006

The Institute of Photonics, established in 1995, is a commercially-oriented research unit, part of the University of Strathclyde. The Institute’s key objective is to bridge the gap between academic research and industrial applications and development in the area of photonics. The Institute’s research interests include semiconductor materials and devices, practical, all solid state lasers, micro-LED arrays and a wide range of applications particularly in biophotonics.

The Institute of Photonics is based in Strathclyde’s Glasgow city centre campus. The Institute’s semiconductor growth and processing equipment is located at Photonix Ltd on the West of Scotland Science park. Photonix Ltd was founded in 1998 and is owned by Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow and Scottish Enterprise.

Photonix Limited is an open-access, multi-user microstructures fabrication facility and small company incubator. It owns and operates a fully equipped 10,000 ft2 clean-room facility, laboratories and serviced office accommodation.

Photonix offers unserviced (i.e. walk-in) access to the full range of microstructures technology fabrication and characterisation equipment. Its customers include universities and companies. In addition, Photonix provides a full serviced offering providing processes to create customer solutions.

Vexcel was established 21 years ago in Boulder Colorado, providing mapping and photogrammetric products, satelllite ground stations and advanced radar technologies for earth observation. In recent years, Vexcel has developed into a multi-national organisation with offices in Ottawa (Vexcel Canada), Graz (Vexcel Austria) and Newbury (Vexcel UK).

Vexcel UK was established in February 2001 with a focus on microwave earth observation applications, since when the UK company has successfully completed more than 40 contracts. These include orders for its own newly-designed MODIS ground station, VxEOSTM.

Other activities include the provision of near real time SAR-derived sea ice maps to two national ice services; tailored satellite support to high latitude expeditions; deliverable software development for simulation of electromagnetic interaction with the surface (Ku to P band) for the European Space Agency; research into advanced radar techniques (e.g. radar polarimetry), ice support to offshore industry; advanced sea ice product development (US Naval Research Laboratories); earth observation software support for Fleet Weather Services (Royal Navy); implementation of an offshore wind energy statistics service (with partner ARGOSS) and vessel detection from satellites using Vexcel's OceanView system.

Waterfall Solutions Ltd is a provider of specialist processing, sensor systems consultancy and mathematical modelling expertise to the defence industry and UK MoD. Covering airborne, land and sea-based applications our projects span:

	EO/IR sensor systems - Studies, requirements / specification, demonstrators, modelling
	Algorithm development - Target detection, tracking & classification; hyper-spectral EO/IR; MWS
	Image processing - Restoration, enhancement, registration, security & surveillance
	Fusion & Tracking - Data fusion (plot, track & information); image fusion
	Mathematical modelling - Model development (sensors, systems, clutter); verification and validation
	Software engineering - Full lifecycle support, bespoke product development
	COTS hardware systems implementation
	Technical consultancy

The High Integrity Systems Engineering Group (HISE) is a major academic centre within the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. The group undertakes research and teaching in all aspects of high-integrity computer-based systems, particularly real-time safety-critical systems and secure information systems.

The broad aim of our work is to build a coherent set of methods and tools for the development and assessment of high-integrity systems and to achieve transfer of this technology into industry. HISE is part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of York.

We receive sponsorship from a variety of government sources - including the EPSRC, MOD , DTI and the European Commission - as well as from European industry - most notably BAE SYSTEMS, Rolls-Royce plc and QinetiQ. We also have a wide network of collaborators and partners, involving groups from Universities, major industrial companies and software houses around the world.

Research in HISE focuses on a range of topics in the safety and security fields. Current research activities include:

	Safety Analysis and Failure Modelling
	Systems of Systems Analysis and Justification
	Formal Software Development
	Real-Time Systems
	Systems and Software Architecture
	Safety Case Development
	Requirements Engineering
	Security
	Testing

At present, the main area of application for our work is the aerospace industry. The four principal research projects within the group are directly funded by industry: BAE SYSTEMS funds the Dependable Computing Systems Centre (DCSC); Rolls-Royce plc funds the University Technology Centre in Systems and Software Engineering (UTC) and other associated activities; the DTI, MOD and EPSRC jointly fund the Defence and Aerospace Research Partnership in High Integrity Real Time Systems (DARP). We also have links with other leading aerospace companies, including Airbus, Smiths Aerospace and TRW.

In addition to our work with the aerospace sector, HISE has been involved in projects with the automotive, railway signalling, telecommunications and nuclear power industries. Our collaborators have included Daimler-Chrysler, National Air Traffic Services (NATS), IBM, Logica, Nortel Networks, Praxis Critical Systems. More recent projects have been undertaken with High-Integrity Solutions (HIS), SEA Limited and QinetiQ. We also work with research groups in several Universities, most notably Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield and Queensland.