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Defence & Security, through its integrated Business Unit
Defence & Communications Systems (DCS) as prime contractor,
and Sagem Défense Sécurité from SAFRAN
Group as main subcontractor have been awarded an exclusive contract
with armasuisse, the Procurement, Technology and Real Estate
Center of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection
and Sport DDPS, for the prototype phase of IMESS, the future
soldier modernization program, with options for a subsequent
industrialization and first series delivery. IMESS is a program
for the modernization of the Swiss infantry fighting capabilities
from a single soldier up to platoon level.
EADS DS, having already successfully delivered the worlds
first Soldier Modernization Program (SMP) to the German Bundeswehr
(IdZ), has been contracted to develop the COMFUT, an equivalent
program for the Spanish Army. Sagem Défense Sécurité
has already delivered FELIN systems to the French Army in 2007
for technical/operational tests and will deliver another batch
of FELIN systems in 2008.
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