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Thales Reorganizes U.S. Operations

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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker Thales last week announced several changes to its organization in the United States, including renaming the operations and creating a new subsidiary to better focus its offerings in the defense and security space. Thales USA, Inc., formerly known as Thales North America, Inc., was re-branded to reflect that there has been a separate organization in Canada for a while and because the new name demonstrates a commitment to the U.S. market, Chip Sheller, vice president of communications…

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