(Boursier.com) — Saffron Orolia offers itself, to become the world leader in Resilient Positioning – Navigation – Time (PNT) solutions. At the end of an exclusive negotiation process that began in December 2021, Orolia, a company recognized worldwide for its activities, technologies and equipment related to positioning, navigation and precise time, today joins Safran Electronics & Defense, European leader and world number 3 in inertial navigation systems. Orolia employs more than 435 people in Europe and North America and achieves sales of around 100 ME. Its activities cover atomic clocks, time servers, simulation equipment and resilience to GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signal alterations, as well as distress locator beacons for aircraft and military applications. They make it a complementary player in Safran Electronics & Defense’s activities to meet the challenges of positioning, navigation and synchronization in contested or vulnerable environments.
Satellite navigation systems are in most situations the reference providers of time and position data but must be secured by their combination with precise and high integrity autonomous time or inertial references. Thanks to this merger with Orolia, a leader in time management solutions, Safran Electronics & Defense will offer the aeronautics and defense, space, transport and new mobility markets, as well as critical infrastructures, a coherent and complete set of architectures and ‘PNT-resilient’ equipment to meet the challenges of integrity and robustness.
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