Defence, security and risk management are central to today's strategic and geopolitical challenges, with an increasing focus on conflict prevention.

Technology is of paramount importance in all these areas, and research and innovation are essential to a broad range of defence applications:

• The fight against cybercrime: monitoring, intrusion detection, protection of data transmissions
• Secure communications: PMR (Private Mobile Radio), battlefield operations (network deployment, joint forces and NATO interoperability)
• Command information systems
• Identification: biometrics, baggage/container inspection, vehicle tracking
• Citizen protection
• Territorial protection: border and airspace security, video surveillance of public places.

ALTEN applies a broad range of engineering and information systems expertise to develop products and systems for the defence sector:

• Embedded electronic systems
• Application development, real-time software
• Mechanical engineering
• Electrical engineering
• Command and control
• Usability (human-machine interfaces)
• Systems engineering.

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