Thales North America has a significant U.S. presence with thousands of employees and customers ranging from the Defense Department to NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration. But the subsidiary has kept a relatively low-profile compared to competitors. For this episode, Editor Nick Wakeman sits down with Thales North America CEO Alan Pellegrini to talk strategy and tends in the market. Item number one on the agenda is a discussion of what the company offers to its customers across space, defense, aviation and cybersecurity. Pellegrini explains how those areas line up with the priorities of its parent, the Paris-headquartered Thales Group. From there, the conversation moves to upcoming opportunities and how Pellegrini sees the market evolving with more demands for dual-use technologies and digital solutions around data encryption, application security and identity and access management. Pellegrini predicts a growing market for Thales, both in America and around the world defense spending everywhere changes due the Trump administration's push for shifting U.S. priorities.
