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first of all Talis is the Talis group is
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an $18 billion multinational
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conglomerate uh doing everything from
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Aerospace uh Electronics
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Navionics um Naval uh design and sonar
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equipment uh uh train signaling data
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encryption we do combat Vehicles we
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really cover the the whole span of real
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technology for both defense and for
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other government entities uh my
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operation does tactical radios here in
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the US uh it's a organization organized
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on under a proxy trust uh the Talis
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group is headquartered in Paris uh and
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then because of our organization we're
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considered a 100% American company and
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we do highle classified work uh because
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of that government uh relationship we
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have um it really doesn't affect us uh
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in that we're doing Communications
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equipment for really ground combat
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operations starting with special forces
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people people and spreading out so as
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the US
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strategically you know deals with
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insurgencies and uh you know surging
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Ground Forces into Afghanistan that's
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really our our bread and butter um you
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see a lot of soldiers in the media and
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many times you'll actually see them
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wearing our equipment uh so the more we
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do on the ground especially with foot
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soldiers because we specialize in uh
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battery powerered applications uh the
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better really is for us yeah especially
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ground combat forces because that's the
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people who use our equipment uh you see
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the soldier walking is using our
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equipment or in sort of lowcost vehicles
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are using our equipment not necessarily
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you know big tanks but Humvees or M
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wraps or Vehicles like that will have
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our equipment in it cuz our specialty is
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software defined radio for applications
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where size weight and power are are
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challenged
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well we're actually pretty well defended
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as it is our products are at the high
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end of NSA certified
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encryption um technology so
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it's if it's very difficult to hack
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something of ours uh we're certified for
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a use with top secret and above
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information um so those type of
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commercial level attacks really don't
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affect the type of Worlds we work in uh
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we're working very much in a program
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called Joint tactical radio system
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jtrs and you know one of the challenges
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we have in jtrs is making sure that the
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the network that we're bringing down to
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the soldier um is both secure and not
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able to be spoofed and you know we put a
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lot of energy into that industry has and
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I think so far we've been very
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successful on that
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front well I think most of our
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businesses in this industry you know
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look forward to not continued growth in
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uh defense spending uh we've had a
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pretty good run uh you know really for
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the last decade and that's a challenge
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also there's some level of saturation
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out there of equipment uh you we have
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sold a lot of radio equipment over the
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last you know X years and there's only
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so many people that need the type of
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radio equipment we have uh so that
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that's a challenge as well now what's
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happening in our industry and software
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defined radio is the military has a
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program called Joint tactical radio
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which over time will bring bring out
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higher level of uh radios as far as
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their capability is concerned and that
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will replace you know what we've really
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deployed over the last 20 years and
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Talis has a position on really all of
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the jtrs programs uh where size weight
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and power are are critical so it's nice
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as we go away from an environment where
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budget supplementals we're we're buying
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a lot of equipment back to a program of
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record environment where the budgets are
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provided by Congress and they're very
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forecastable uh and we're we're in a
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very strong position there so we think
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that we'll maintain good business
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because of our our position on these
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programs well Talis is a big global
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company uh we have you know operations
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and I think something like over 50 uh
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different countries the us being one of
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them Talis Communications is probably
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the largest defense industrial operation
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we have in the US so in essence I'm part
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of that globalization from a Talis
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perspective now we do export business as
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well um mostly to you know NATO and
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Allied countries like
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Australia uh and we do that through our
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really through our Affiliates in those
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countries so global
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ization really is you know the essence
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of
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Talis well just again point out that you
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know Talis is a big company
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headquartered in France uh Talis
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Communications though is a 100% American
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company and because of that we've been
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able to bring software defined radio
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technology from you know really the the
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drawing board to the Troops in the field
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so that they're using it today and
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they're using it uh really to do their
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missions a lot more effectively and
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their and a lot more safely and we're
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we're all very proud of that
