Innovation
Innovation at Safran Vectronix
Innovation plays a major role at Safran group. Essential to our competitiveness, it enables us to offer top electro-optical products as well as modules in each of our business sectors – defense, security, system integration – while also reducing development time and cost.
To support our strategy, we invest considerable human and financial resources in research & development. Innovation is also a state of mind, expressed through the sharing of expertise, based on a large number of partnerships and a dynamic, successful employee-driven innovation initiative.
Technical Know-How
Vectronix is an established leader in the development and manufacture of integrated handheld, mounted, module, and precision systems for observation, detection, geo-positioning, and targeting. Our core competencies lie in electro-optics, laser rangefinding, and northfinding technologies, night vision technology, software development and systems integration. Vectronix supports the requirements of defence and law enforcement as well as industrial and commercial markets.
Safran is a leading international high-technology group
Safran has three core businesses: Aerospace, Defense and Security. Operating wordwide, the group has more than 80,000 employees and generated sales of almost 25 billion Euros in 2019.
Through its global presence, Safran not only enhances competitiveness, it also builds industrial and commercial relations with the world’s leading prime contractors and operators, while providing fast, local service to customers around the world at the same time. Whether working alone or in partnership, Safran holds world and European leadership positions in its core markets.
Key Facts – Safran Global Group
- Ranked among Top 100 global innovators by Thomson Reuters
- European leader in optronic systems
- World’s leading manufacturer of single-aisle commercial jet engines
- 7% of consolidated revenues invested in R&D
- Over 80,000 employees in more than 60 countries
- Global portfolio comprising 26,000 patents
Innovation at Safran Group
Safran innovates to develop tomorrow's technologies, products and services for the aerospace, defense and security markets.