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SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (S&AS), a Finmeccanica Company, will unveil its newly developed Lightweight High Performance Thermal Imaging Camera technology at the 47th International Paris Air Show this week - this is the first time that this equipment has been displayed in Europe.

SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (S&AS) UK has hosted the second annual supplier conference for the Merlin Capability Sustainment Plus Programme (MCSP) at its Edinburgh site.
Lockheed Martin UK, Prime Contractor and Systems Integrator for the programme, staged the conference with the aim of bringing together the leaders of the programme's industrial partners to maintain cohesion and overall programme perspective and to explore opportunities for continual improvement. The conference was attended by all thirteen partners, together with representatives of the Royal Navy (RN), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the associated Integrated Project Team.

Galileo Avionica, a Finmeccanica Company, is committed to strengthening its cooperation and presence in Turkey. At IDEF, the company will be exhibiting on the Finmeccanica stand, presenting its expertise in surveillance, protection, tracking, targeting, navigation and control for land sea air platforms.

The Electromagnetic Remote Sensing (EMRS) and the Systems Engineering of Autonomous Systems (SEAS) Defence Technology Centres (DTCs) are holding the UK's largest annual defence science conference on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th of July 2007. The event will be held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) and is sponsored by Scottish Enterprise.

The Euroradar CAESAR active electronically scanned array (AESA) variant of the CAPTOR radar system has successfully completed a flight test programme in the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. The flights were conducted by EADS from the Manching facility in Germany.
The CAESAR (Captor Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar) system is an AESA radar demonstrator developed and funded by the Euroradar consortium consisting of - SELEX Sensors & Airborne Systems (S&AS), Galileo Avionica of Italy, EADS Defence Electronics of Germany and INDRA of Spain. CAESAR enables AESA capability to be fully exploited, while retaining all features and capabilities of the original CAPTOR radar system.

Galileo Avionica, a Finmeccanica Company, is seeking to approach the Slovakian Defence and Security market.
Slovakia has mastered much of the its transition from a centrally planned economy to a modern market economy. A great number of opportunities are opening up, a number of which require partners with advanced technologies and state-of-the-art products.

Galileo Avionica, a Finmeccanica Company, leader in Italy in the Space exploration technologies announces its participation to the mission AGILE of the Italian Space Agency ASI.
Agile principal aim is to study the astrophysics high energy: for two years the Italian satellite will explore the Universe searching for X and Gamma rays sources that, for the first time, will be studied simultaneously. Agile will acquire precious knowledge on dark holes, neutrons stars, supernovae, active galaxies and other relevant galactic phenomenon.

SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (S&AS) UK are proud to be the lead sponsor of the first ever Security Expo in Riyadh 2007 after 40 years of association with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Galileo Avionica, a Finmeccanica company, participates at LAAD 2007, the international exhibition on Aerospace & Defence Technology taking place in Rio de Janeiro from the 17th up to the 20th of April.
Galileo Avionica presence in Brazil dates back to the beginning of the eighties with the supply of MM/APS-705 search radars on the SM-3D of the Brazilian Navy and has gotten stronger so that today this market is very important for the company. Galileo Avionica has established long term industrial agreements for a wide range of its products, while new requirements are arising which could call for the support of a reliable partner.

Finmeccanica today announces the appointment of Steve Mogford as Chief Executive Officer of Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems SpA, a core part of the Group's Defence Electronics capability. He will have responsibility for both the UK and Italian operations - Selex SAS UK and Galileo Avionica - and will take up his position in May.

Top class engineers from SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (S&AS) are launching ?Rampaging Chariots' at Wonderama, from the 2nd to the 15th April at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

Galileo Avionica, Finmeccanica company, participates at the Australian International Aerospace & Defence Exposition held at the Avalon airport (Victoria) from 20 to 25 March 2007.
In the last few years Italy and Finmeccanica have launched interesting programmes in Australia. In detail, the Australian market is of great importance especially for Galileo Avionica.

SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (S&AS), a Finmeccanica Company, formed by SELEX S&AS in the UK and Galileo Avionica in Italy will exhibit at IDEX 2007 within the Finmeccanica stand.
SELEX S&AS will display a range of equipments, products and technologies for Land, Air and Homeland Security capability. Committed to strengthening cooperation and partnership in the Gulf region delivering state-of-the-art sensors, systems and solutions, SELEX S&AS can contribute to enhance homeland security, defence and protection for its customers.

Galileo Avionica, a Finmeccanica company, was awarded with an 20 million euro contract- as part of
the Customs Coastwatch programme for the aerial surveillance of Australian maritime areas. The
contracted system is based on the ATOS, Airborne Tactical Observation and Surveillance System.
The System is named in the contract as SIM (Surveillance Information Management).