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Selex ES is an international electronics and information technology business, which is part of Smart Systems.
In July 2003 Finmeccanica and BAE Systems signed a joint venture agreement [3] with the intention merging their avionics, C4ISR and communications businesses to create three joint venture partnerships under the name Eurosystems. The difficulties of integrating the companies in this way however led to a re-evaluation of the proposal. BAE's 2004 Annual Report states that "recognising the complexity of the earlier proposed ... transaction with Finmeccanica we have moved to a simpler model."[4]
This revised agreement was signed on January 27, 2005. Finmeccanica and BAE announced the intention to dissolve their partnership in the Alenia Marconi Systems (AMS) joint venture with AMS' UK and Italian operations to be taken over by the respective partners.
On May 3, 2005, the Eurosystems Transaction was finalised with:
BAE Systems sold its 25% share of SELEX S&AS to Finmeccanica for €400 million in March 2007.[5]
From January 2008, SELEX S&AS Limited and its Italian counterpart Galileo Avionica S.p.A. began to operate under a common brand name, SELEX Galileo. In January 2010, the operating companies’ legal names were aligned to the brand, becoming SELEX Galileo Ltd and SELEX Galileo S.p.A. respectively. SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (US) Inc. became SELEX Galileo Inc.[6]
In 2009 SELEX Sistemi Integrati purchased Vega Group PLC, forming in the UK SELEX Systems Integration Ltd and Vega Consulting Services Ltd.
In 2011 SELEX Communications merged with Elsag Datamat, combining the expertise and heritage of two of the world's most technologically-advanced companies to establish SELEX Elsag.
On 1 January 2013, SELEX Galileo became Selex ES when it merged with its sister companies SELEX Sistemi Integrati and SELEX Elsag.[7] The combined business had a global workforce of approximately 17,000, and total revenues in excess of €3.5 billion. Alongside its core domestic operations in Italy and the UK, the company has an established industrial and commercial footprint in the United States, Germany, Turkey, Romania, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and India.
In 2012 it was reported a previous Selex company had provided TETRA trunked radio network hardware to the Assad regime, and amid sanctions continued to expand the company's contract with the regime during the context of the Syrian Civil War.[8]
In August 2013, Selex ES provided an unarmed surveillance drone to the United Nations to be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo to monitor movements of armed groups in the region and to protect the civilian population more effectively.[9]
The company is now focused into three international divisions:[10]
The Company employs 17,000 personnel with operations in the United Kingdom, Italy and throughout the world.
UK sites include:
Italian sites include:
The company has a policy of sustainability and social responsibility and is involved in local charitable, educational and environmental initiatives across its global footprint.
The company's IGNITE in India programme is part of the wider International Graduate Network Integrated Through Experience. The programme allows graduates to develop entrepreneurial skills and transfer good business practice in developing countries. The programme's emphasis is on socially sustainable initiatives.
Selex ES ‘A. Tiezzi’ Museum of Science - Situated close to company’s Campi Bisenzio site near Florence the museum takes visitors on a journey through the story of Italian radar, to the latest electronic devices. It features space technology, avionics equipment, meters and didactic instruments all of which demonstrate the value of over 100 years of continuous research dedicated to science and technology.
The Company has also opened the Museo del Radar in recognition of the part radar manufacturing enterprises has played our industrial age. The Radar Museum, the first created by a company in Naples).
In the UK Selex ES sponsors the Combined Services Disabled Ski Team (CSDST) (http://www.csdst.co.uk , which enables members to pursue the sport and help rehabilitate those who have suffered a serious injury. It is hoped that some CSDST members may represent Great Britain in the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. To date, the company has raised over £80,000 for CSDST through several fundraising activities.
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