King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) signs
two contracts with SELEX Galileo
Paris, Le Bourget, 21 June 2011 – The King Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology (KACST) has signed two contracts with SELEX
Galileo. These contracts include delivery of SELEX Galileo’s
PicoSAR and cutting edge ESCAN radar technologies for joint
research, development and demonstration purposes, and a series of
training and industrial participation modules centred around SELEX
Galileo’s world renowned radar expertise.
The PicoSAR contract is the third over the last few months for
this innovative, compact, high performance SAR/GMTI radar, the
ideal solution for challenging UAS surveillance applications.
These contracts further advance SELEX Galileo’s high technology
partnership with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through its
relationship with KACST and signify the strong, effective link
between the two parties who signed their formal collaboration
agreement in 2010 (some 18 months after the initial MoU).
SELEX Galileo is developing its relationship with the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia through its limited liability company, SELEX Galileo
Saudi Arabia (SGSA), wholly owned by SELEX Galileo and established
in 2010. With offices in Riyadh, SGSA participates in key
defence events as well as working with Saudi Arabian companies and
Academia to strengthen ties between the Kingdom and SELEX
Galileo.
Notes to Editors
KACST is an independent
scientific organisation of the Saudi Arabian Government established
in 1977 under the name of Saudi Arabian National Centre for Science
& Technology (SANCST) in 1985 SANCST was renamed King Abdulaziz
City for Science & Technology (KACST).
SELEX Galileo is recognised as a world leader and major supplier
to a wide customer base of battlefield EO and RF systems,
communications and network systems and has worked from a regional
base in Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for more than 20
years. Furthermore, the company is responsible for almost 60% of
the Typhoon electronics, including the CAPTOR radar, the DASS
Defensive Aids System and PIRATE IRST.
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