Thales.
Thales Thales (thā`lēz), c.636–c.546 B.C., pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Miletus and reputed founder of the Milesian school of philosophy. He is the first recorded Western philosopher. , Giat and Sagem have been awarded a contract for the concept
design and demonstration phase of the BOA boa (bō`ə), name for live-bearing constrictor snakes of the family Boidae, found mostly in the Americas. This family, which also comprises the egg-laying pythons of the Old World, includes the largest of all snakes, as well as many smaller co-operative fighting system.
The French defence procurement agency The Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), was an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence responsible for the acquisition of materiel, equipment and services, for the British armed forces. awarded a 129 million [euro]
contract to the team to establish the DGA's first integrated
battle-lab, carry-out an engineering study to identify future close
combat system advanced architectures, and design and develop the Tactic3
network-enabled architecture for close combat in the air-land operating
environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . Work under this award will continue through 2011.
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