Selex ES

SELEX Galileo is a defense and electronics companies of the Italian Finmeccanica Group, headquartered in Rome and Basildon. The company was established between 2005 and 2009 by the merger of a number of British and Italian companies that were able to look back on some of over one hundred years of history.

Business

SELEX Galileo mainly manufactures avionics and radar equipment for aircraft. There are also unmanned aerial vehicles (Falco ) and various electronic systems for military and police purposes. The company employs in Italy, the United Kingdom and in the United States approximately 7,000 employees. In 2008, sales amounted to 1.645 billion euros.

History

The Italian share of the company, mainly owing to the 1864 founded Officine Galileo. This company built from Florence, among other fire control. In 2000, the company Galileo Avionica SpA was through the merger of Officine Galileo and several other companies. These included, founded in 1941 FIAR ( Fabbrica Italiana Apparecchiature Radoielettriche ), the Milan produced radars for aircraft since the 1960s (particularly the Grifo series ) and Meteor ( Mirach 100), Aleco, Tecnospazio, Cetev and parts of Alenia. Galileo Avionica was a Finmeccanica company.

On the British side, the story of SELEX Galileo goes back to 1897 by Guglielmo Marconi founded the telecommunications company Marconi, which was then taken over in 1946 by English Electric, and this in 1968 by the General Electric Company. The parts of the business of GEC, which dealt with military technology, were given the name Marconi ( GEC -Marconi, in front of several other name combinations with " Marconi "). The company took over in 1990 a part of the Ferranti Defence Division in Crewe Toll ( Edinburgh). 1998 merged GEC -Marconi Radar and Defence Systems with the avionics division of Alenia Marconi Systems Alenia Difesa for (AMS). Was created in 1999 from British Aerospace and the remaining military hardware parts of GEC ( Marconi Electronic Systems ), the new group BAE Systems. BAE Systems and Finmeccanica held from 1999 to 2005, the shares of Alenia Marconi Systems.

On May 3, Finmeccanica and BAE Systems agreed with the Eurosystem Transaction dissolution of AMS. The majority was acquired by Finmeccanica, the various companies formed with the label " SELEX ", including SELEX Sistemi Integrati, SELEX Communications and SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems.

The Finmeccanica 's share of SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems amounted initially to 75 percent. In March 2007, Finmeccanica acquired by BAE Systems for 400 million euros and the remaining 25 percent, and named the company after that in SELEX Galileo to. In the UK, it operates under SELEX Galileo Ltd., in the U.S. at SELEX Galileo Inc and in Italy, SELEX Galileo SpA