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Divisions

Aeronautics

• Alenia Aeronautica
• Aermacchi
• Officine Aeronavali
• ATR (50%, with Aerospatiale, today EADS).
  World leader in the 40-70 seat turboprop market.
• Quadrics
  A supercomputing company. Quadrics and Bull of France are currently cooperating on Europe's fastest supercomputer: the 60 teraflops French Tera-10[1].

Alenia Aeronautica is an aerospace engineering corporation in Italy, a subisidary of Finmeccanica. ... Aermacchi, formerly Aeronautica Macchi, is an Italian aircraft manufacturer founded in 1913 by Giulio Macchi at Varese in north-western Lombardy, 55 km north of Milan. ... The Italian-French based aircraft manufacturer Avions de Transport Régional (ATR) was formed in 1981, from the consortium formed by the Aérospatiale of France and Aeritalia, now Alenia Aeronautica, of Italy companies. ... The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS N.V. (EADS) (Euronext: EAD, FWB: EAD) is a large European aerospace corporation, formed by the merger on July 10, 2000 of Aérospatiale-Matra of France, Dornier GmbH and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) of Germany, and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA... This is an article about the computing company, for use in mathematics, see quadric. ...

Helicopters

• AgustaWestland
  Helicopter design and manufacturing company based in Italy and the United Kingdom. It was formed as a joint venture in July 2000 when Finmeccanica and GKN plc agreed to merge their helicopter subsidiaries. AgustaWestland is now a fully owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica.

AgustaWestland is a helicopter design and manufacturing company based in Italy and the United Kingdom. ... GKN plc is a British engineering company formerly known as Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds and tracing its origins back to 1759 and the birth of the industrial revolution. ...

Space

• Alcatel Alenia Space (33%, with Alcatel 67%), the European Space industry leader
• Telespazio (67% with Alcatel 33%)

Defence Electronics

• SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (S&AS) (75%).
  Merger of Galileo Avionica (formerly Alenia Difesa) and the majority of BAE Systems Avionics under terms of the Eurosystem transaction. Finmeccanica thus becomes the second defense electronics group in Europe, after Thales of France.
• SELEX Sistemi Integrati
  The former Italian arm of Alenia Marconi Systems.
• SELEX Communications
  The former Selenia Communications plus the UK military and secure communications business of BAE Systems.

SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (Selex S&AS) is a major avionics joint venture created by the merger of Finmeccanicas Galileo Avionica and BAE Systems Avionics. ... BAE Systems Avionics was the avionics unit of BAE Systems until 2005, at which time it was merged with Finmeccanicas Galileo Avionica to form SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (75% Finmecannica, 25% BAE). ... The Thales Group is a global electronics company serving aerospace, defence, and information technology markets worldwide. ... SELEX Sistemi Integrati (SELEX SI) was formed as a result of the Eurosystems agreement between Finmeccanica and BAE Systems on May 3, 2005. ... Alenia Marconi Systems (AMS) is a major European defence electronics company and is a equal shares joint venture between BAE SYSTEMS and Finmeccanica. ...

Defence Systems

• MBDA (25%)
  A joint venture company between EADS (37.5%), BAE Systems (37.5%) and Finmeccanica, MBDA is the world's No.2 missile manufacturer after Raytheon.

MBDA is a European arms company which manufactures missiles and is the result of the 2002 merger of Aérospatiale-Matra Missiles (of EADS), Alenia Marconi Systems missile divisions and Matra BAe Dynamics. ... BAE Systems, plc is the worlds fourth largest defense contractor [2] and a commercial aerospace products manufacturer. ... Raytheon Company NYSE: RTN is a major United States military contractor based in Waltham, Massachusetts. ...

Information Technology

• Elsag

Energy

• Ansaldo Energia.
  The company has more than a hundred years of power generation experience and an installed capacity exceeding 153,000 MW in over 75 countries. Revenues in 2003 stood at 802 million euros.
• Ansaldo Fuel Cells
  In June 2004 Ansaldo Fuel Cells inaugurated the Terni industrial fuel cell production facility for stationary applications. The production capacity, initially 3 MW, should have reached 15 MW by 2006.

Transportation

• Ansaldobreda
  Heavy and Light Rail Vehicles are to be found in Denmark (83 diesel trains and 19-29 metro cars), Norway (36 electric trains+16 light metro vehicles), Madrid (180 heavy metro vehicles), Gothenberg (40 Sirio light rail stock), Birmingham+Manchester (32+6 light metro vehicles), Lille (24 light metro vehicles), SanFrancisco+Boston (151+100 light metro vehicles), Atlanta+LosAngeles (100+42 heavy metro vehicles), and Athens (35 Sirio light rail vehicles).

Logo for Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie as seen on car #4063 on the Washington Metro. ... Sirio in Athens Sirio is a tramway build by Ansaldobreda, an Italian manufacturer of trains, trams and LRVs. ...

Joint Ventures / Participations

• Horizon SAS and EuroSysNav
  50-50 joint ventures between DCN/Thales of France and Finmeccanica/Fincantieri of Italy for the design and construction of 27 FREMM multirole frigates and 4 Horizon anti-air frigates. FREMM/Horizon, at a cost of 4.3 billion euros, is Europe's largest naval program
• Eurotorp
  50-50 joint venture between Finmeccanica and DCN/Thales of France. Eurotorp is the world market leader for lightweight torpedoes, and the European leading company in antisubmarine weapon systems.
• NHIndustries
  Italy has a 32% stake in the program, France 31.25%, Germany 31.25%, and The Netherlands 5.5%
• Eurofighter GmbH (21%)
  Joint venture with EADS and BAE Systems for co-ordination of the design, production and upgrade of Eurofighter Typhoon.
• Global Military Aircfraft Systems (GMAS) between Alenia North America Inc and L-3 IS (subsidiary of L-3 Communications) in order to compete for the FCA program (Future Cargo Aircraft):

NHIndustries is a helicopter manufacturing company established in 1992 by Agusta of Italy, Eurocopter of Germany and France as well as Stork Fokker Aerospace of the Netherlands. ... Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH is a multinational company that co-ordinates the design, production and upgrade of the Eurofighter Typhoon. ... British Eurofighter Development Aircraft (DA) The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine multi-role canard-delta strike fighter aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers, Eurofighter GmbH, formed in 1983. ...

Product range

21% of Eurofighter Typhoon Eurofighter Typhoon. ...

External links

• Alcatel Alenia Space, European Space industry leader
• NH Industries structure
• Eurotorp homepage
• ATR homepage
• AnsaldoBreda
• Europe's fastest supercomputer: Bull/Quadrics cooperation
• ESA: Skyplex
• Ansaldo Fuel Cells production facility plant inaugurated in June 2004