Thales Group

He previously held executive roles at Siemens, PLM, UGS in the United States and Switzerland, and led new product development at Sulzer AG in Switzerland.

So Andreas has advised and worked with many leading global companies, including Apple, Applied Materials, Boeing, Cardinal Health, Carrier, Edwards Life Sciences, General Dynamics, Honda, Pilatus Aircraft, Proterra, Sierra Nevada, Starbucks, and Thales on PLM strategy.

That's quite the marquee list there, Andreas.

And so he also has led projects on process transformation, solution selection, and implementation.

We have on a dear friend named John Schende.

He's CTO over at Thales.

And I've known John since he was working with CenturyLink.

So this goes back 10 plus years.

And I remember we were calling them boom runs, these clients.

They were they were first, you know, leveraging these free solutions from It was not Microsoft, but whatever, Thales, Oracle, and so on, their free product.

They were leveraging their free product.

But then a year after, they were coming back to us saying, well, it doesn't work well.

The system aims to clear border bottlenecks digitally and will become mandatory for foreign land travelers six months from launch.

Crossing into North Africa, Thales and Egyptian digital solutions firm SciShield have signed an agreement to modernize national border management and support the nationwide rollout of new electronic passports.

The initiative will deploy automated biometric e-gates and integrated management systems across more than 32 air, land, and sea ports to support Egypt's national push to welcome 30 million annual tourists by 2030.

Heading to East Asia, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, or GLEIF, has accredited Shanghai-based TrustAsia as a qualified VLEI issuer.

Speaker, it will lock in tariff-free access for Australia's energy resources and critical minerals exports.

Mr Speaker, Europe is home to some of the world's leading manufacturers, defence companies and clean energy industries like Airbus, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Thales, Siemens, just to name a few.

As they decarbonise, grow their industries and strengthen their economic security, EU companies will need reliable supplies of the critical minerals that Australia produces.

As the European Commissioner, President Ursula von der Leyen, said when she was here, we cannot be over-dependent on any supply for such crucial agreements and that is precisely why we need each other.

They were the one big European company.

Thales, I guess, also had some order and revenue figures.

you know, from this position, it's like, okay, industry's performing pretty well.

No surprise there.

You

know, Thales, or Thalers, I can't remember how they pronounce it, but basically they've got a plant in Ireland that's quadrupled its interceptor missile building, which would be useful for intercepting missiles, which is what we are under the greatest threat from.

So we're under the greatest threat from things like cutting undersea cables.

No.