**COREF** aims to develop two digitally connected New Product Introduction innovation labs. These labs will utilise innovative technology up to TRL 5 and enable Thales and the partners to innovate in terms of product design and assembly. These facilities will have open access to the supply chain and the public through partner invitation. Whilst complimentary to 'Made Smarter', COREF differentiates itself through its connected multi-business, multi-site aspect. This project aims to enable Thales UK (multi-site) to meet customer demand for customisable, low lead-time products (multi-business (connected supply chain), and stay competitive within the Global Avionics arena.

HICLASS is a project to enable the delivery of the most complex software-intensive, safe and cyber-secure systems in the world. It is a strategic initiative to drive new technologies and best-practice throughout the UK aerospace supply chain, enabling the UK to affordably develop systems for the growing aircraft and avionics market expected over the next decades. It includes key primes, system suppliers, software companies and universities working together to meet the challenge of growing system complexity and size. HICLASS will allow development of new, complex, intelligent and internet-connected electronic products, safe and secure from cyber-attack that can be affordably certified.

For the UK to remain at the forefront of aeronautical wideband communications, development of advanced communication transceivers is a necessity. This project researches a very wideband Radio-Frequency digitising transceiver for use within high data rate aeronautical communication systems. The work will result in a novel leading-edge wideband transceiver design, incorporating highly innovative RF power amplifier and filter technologies. This unique radio transceiver will use advanced digital signal processing algorithms to optimise analogue RF components, and ensure optimal trade-off between size, weight, power consumption, communications performance and flexibility. It will build upon patented digital pre-distortion algorithms minimising power consumption while maximising data throughput, essential for supporting wider bandwidths. The outcome will constitute significant progress towards a practical and unique solution for future aeronautical broadband wireless communications. It will significantly advance the availability of new, compact, multi-frequency transceiver units supporting substantially higher data rates. This work will further strengthen work already carried out by the project partners and thereby extend UK's leadership in this area.