Thales Defense & Security

Thales Defense and Security, Inc. is a US company headquartered in Clarksburg, Maryland. It is a subsidiary of Thales Group, a global technology group. The company has served defense air, land and sea users for 60 years.

The site says the company has over 1,000 employees. It has three subsidiaries: Tampa Microwave, Advanced Acoustic Concepts and Trusted Cyber Technologies. The company supports US joint services, special operations forces and multinational partners.

The company's key technologies include tactical handheld radios, expeditionary satellite terminals, helmet-mounted displays, optics and target recognition, advanced radars, undersea sensing and missile systems.

The company serves several markets. The site lists maritime systems, electronic warfare, network communications, avionics, data security, and platform and soldier enabling technologies.

The site says the company works under a proxy agreement approved by the US Government. The agreement addresses concerns about foreign ownership, control or influence. The company works with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency on it. The site describes the company as a 100 percent US company.

The parent group has more than 77,000 employees on five continents, according to the site. The company is a member of the Maryland Green Registry. Contact is by phone, with a freephone number for US callers, or by a contact form. The form asks whether the visitor is US government, non-US, a partner or a vendor.