Sagem Défense Sécurité: speed control radars in France. Following European bidding, the French Government’s road safety agency (Direction de la Sécurité et de la Circulation Routières) awarded Sagem Défense Sécurité (Safran Group) a contract for a multi-year program to install additional automated speed-control radars.

The program, which is set to last three years, covers the manufacture, deployment and maintenance of several hundred latest-generation fixed and mobile automatic radars.

As part of this program, the French government plans to buy a total of 500 new radars in 2006. This new order comes on top of the 1.000 fixed and mobile radars installed between 2003 and 2005 by the company on French roads.

The company has become the prime contractor for the largest automatic radar network in the world deployed on a national level.