Intelligent Aviation

Thales selected to prepare France for new Schengen Area entry/exit system

In 2022, Member States of the Schengen Area will be required to have a biometric entry and exit system to register non-European citizens crossing an EU external border. Thales has been selected by the French Ministry of the Interior to deliver several hundred pre-registration...

Viasat, Gazprom Space Systems and TMC to bring in-flight connectivity services to Russia

Viasat, a global communications company, Russian satellite operator Gazprom Space Systems (GSS) and Russian telecom operator TMC LLC (TMC) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that aims to advance in-flight connectivity (IFC) for airlines...

Aruba and Leonardo working in partnership to provide high performance cloud

Aruba S.p.A., an Italian cloud provider and a leading company in Italy for data centre, web hosting, email, certified email (PEC) and domain registration services, and Leonardo, a world leader in the aerospace, defence and security sector, have announced a partnership...

NEC facial recognition adopted by ‘Star Alliance Biometrics’ platform

NEC Corporation has announced that Lufthansa Airlines and Swiss International Airlines (SWISS), Lufthansa Group airline members of Star Alliance, launched the ‘Star Alliance Biometrics’ identity verification platform, utilising NEC’s facial recognition...