Selex ES to work up Falco UAS development plan with Jordan

Selex ES has been highlighting its extensive work with Jordan while also promoting key technologies for surveillance and situational awareness during the SOFEX 2014 show being held in Amman.
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With ongoing collaboration in a number of areas and a memorandum of understanding signed in 2013the Finmeccanica subsidiary said it anticipates moving toward a more strategic relationship with King Abdullah
Design and Development Bureau, (KADDB) and the Armed Forces of Jordan as programmes develop.
Currently under discussion for joint development are technologies relating to Selex ES’s range of Future Soldier systems, and for surveillance requirements, one key technology being promoted by Selex ES is the Falco, the company’s tactical UAS.
Falco was recently sold to a Middle Eastern customer, bringing the total customers for the system to five. Other airborne technologies being discussed at SOFEX will include the company’s PicoSAR lightweight AESA radar and Mirach aerial target.
Outside of the military domain, Selex ES said it recognises that increasing and asymmetric threats are rapidly making many of the company’s integrated
smart solutions and high technology products applicable to the civil and security sectors, for instance for the protection of key facilities and
assets i.e. airports, power generation & distribution, telecoms and cities.
As the company’s footprint increases in Jordan it said it will explore potential partnerships to maximise business opportunities in these adjacent markets.
In one key example, Selex ES has been reviewing ongoing traffic monitoring system requirements in the city of Amman.