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[Via Satellite 10-17-13] Thales Communications has announced a company expansion and the change of its company name. Through recent acquisitions and intra-Thales mergers, Thales Communications has changed its name to Thales Defense & Security, effective Oct. 1, 2013.

Two Thales businesses merged with Thales Communications – the navigation, surveillance, and simulation segment of the Thales air traffic management organization, and the former Thales USA Defense and Security, both long-time partners of Thales Communications. They join Tampa Microwave, Visionix, and InterSense, the businesses acquired by Thales Communications in 2012. Tampa Microwave is the provider of small, man-packable, tactical SATCOM terminals for high-bandwidth, voice, video, and data battlefield communications, and Visionix and InterSense are the developers of helmet mounted display and motion tracking technologies.

As part of the intra-Thales mergers, two other Thales businesses came under management control of Thales Communications, with no changes in their leadership – Thales e-Security, a provider of data protection solutions, and the Thales-DRS joint venture, Advanced Acoustic Concepts, a provider of advanced sonar systems.