Through this partnership with Orolia, Safran Electronics & Defense, will offer a cohesive set of PNT architectures and equipment for the aviation, defense, space, and transportation markets.
Orolia, a company providing services for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) and related activities, technologies and equipment — joined Safran Electronics & Defense, the European leader and world’s third largest company in inertial navigation systems. The decision came after a series of intense negotiations between the two aviation sector players that began back in December 2021.
Jean-Yves Courtois, CEO of Orolia, said, “Orolia could not imagine a better fit than with Safran to secure its growth and leverage its PNT leadership positions. Thanks to the addition of best-in-class timing and inertial technologies, premier access to the largest defense and aerospace markets, and a proven track-record in government program capture and execution, Safran and Orolia have now all the cards in hands to establish themselves as the Resilient PNT leader.”
Orolia employs in excess of 435 individuals in Europe and North America and has yields of around €100 million. Its solutions incorporate atomic clocks, time servers*, simulation and versatility equipment for GNSS** signals, as well as crisis finder guides for business flight and military applications. These make Orolia a profoundly reciprocal and synergistic piece of Safran Electronics and Defense’s exercises as it addresses the difficulties of situating, route and synchronization in challenged and vulnerable environments.
Martin Sion, CEO of Safran Electronics & Defense, said, “The acquisition of Orolia makes Safran one of the only companies with the full complement of PNT technologies, bringing together Orolia’s precise time referencing and Safran Electronics & Defense’s proven inertial navigation solutions. Our shared ambition is to become the world leader in resilient PNT for all conventional and strategic applications.”
Through this tie up with Orolia, a premier supplier of time management solutions, Safran Electronics and Defense, a leader in positioning and navigation solutions,, will offer a complete and firm arrangement of strong PNT models and equipment to address the difficulties of integrity and robustness for the aviation, defense, space, transportation, new mobility and critical infrastructure markets.
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*time server is a server computer that provides accurate reference time
**Global navigation satellite system (GPS, Galileo, Glonass, BeiDou, etc.).
