CAAS, Thales set up S$30m joint aviation innovation research lab

Kevin Shum, director-general of CAAS and Jean Ferré, Thales' vice-president of air traffic management at the signing ceremony.THE Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and French aerospace firm Thales are jointly setting up a S$30 million research lab in Singapore to drive innovation in new air traffic management technologies, both companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

period of three years. It will be co-located with the Thales Digital Factory in Singapore to draw synergies between the two facilities, the companies said. Through the AIR Lab, Thales will be increasing its level of investments into ATM-related research in Singapore, by bringing in domain experts and hiring software engineers, system engineers and integrators," CAAS and Thales said.The new lab will also provide a platform for multiple stakeholders, including Singapore enterprises with complementary capabilities, to collaborate on these new technologies and develop corresponding prototypes.

The latest agreement to establish the AIR Lab was signed by Kevin Shum, director-general of CAAS, and Jean Ferré, vice-president of ATM at Thales, on the sidelines of the International Civil Aviation Organization Innovation Fair in Montreal.

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