çÛÁ¦ÊÓƵ

CANSEC has been held annually in Ottawa since 1998 by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI).  It is Canada’s largest defence and security exhibition with over 11,000 attendees, over 330 exhibiting companies and 700 booths. 

Thales was a proud participant and sponsor of CANSEC 2016, with not only a booth featuring a highly digital and interactive display, but also a big announcement in partnership with Seaspan.
The Thales booth was 180 sqm and featured equipment that focused on Thales Canada’s Army and Naval capabilities. Thales’ presence at CANSEC showcased its leadership in R&D investment and innovation in Canada with a booth that highlighted products and capabilities from DMS/TNL, DMS/TUS, LAS/TNL, TDSI, DMS/UK, LAS/UK, and DMS/Canada and SIX/Canada. (Land Operations, Maritime Safety & Security Operations, Naval Defence Operations including under water systems).

Thales’ booth this year featured interactive tablets where visitors could look at product sheets and/or demos including:

• Commander C3: Maritime Mission Management System
• TACTICOS: CMS for combat operations and maritime security operations
• Collaboration Table: real time, collaborative, operational and intelligence planning
• Crowdstack:  transforming big data sources into meaningful intelligence
• SoldierView: intuitive battle management system
• TBMS: Tactical battle management system
• VMSCS: vehicle mounted surveillance control system
• SYnRGY: training and simulation
• Thales Connected Police Officer
• Services: supportability engineering, material resource management, support resource planning, supportability data fusion

Also on display was Optronics uncooled thermal imaging products. 

(all product sheets are available on the Canadian website under "Defence")

Day 1 pictures:
Thales Canada’s presence at CANSEC was prominent as Mark Halinaty, Thales Canada Inc CEO kicked off the exhibition by introducing the Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff, Jonathan Vance at the CADSI breakfast, followed by Thales Canada’s check presentation to the True Patriot Love foundation. Thales’ booth also attracted government delegates such as French Ambassador Nicolas Chapuis who stopped by on day one.  
 

 French Ambassador Nicolas Chapuis visitt to Thales booth 

 Capt(N) Casper Donovan, Senior Advisor to the NSA for Privy Council Office visits the booth
 
 

The Hon. Andrew Leslie, MP for Orleans, visits the booth

 

RAdm. Burton
 

Deputy Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, Rear-Admiral Ron Lloyd visits the Thales booth

Day 2:
 

$35M contract with Seaspan announcement
From left to right: Brian Carter Seaspan CEO, Mark Halinaty CEO Thales Canada Inc, and Dale Potter VP DMS Thales Canada, Defence & Security 

 

The Hon. Harjit Singh Sajjan , Minister of Defence speaks with Pierre Eric Pommellet and Jerry McLean
 

Minister Foote speaks with Mark Halinaty and Pierre Eric Pommellet at the Thales booth
 [[asset:image:156076 {"mode":"original","align":"left","field_admin_bool_link_target":[0],"field_admin_bool_image_filter":[0]}]]

OFSV announcement in the Ottawa Business Journal