Orolia Defense & Security, now known as Safran Federal Systems after being acquired by Safran in 2022, is a provider of resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions and custom engineering services. They cater to U.S. Government agencies, defense organizations, and their contractors. Their offerings include M-Code/GNSS testing and simulation tools, precision time synchronization systems, and navigation warfare (NAVWAR) equipment. They partner with organizations like Raytheon and Xona Space Systems, and their technology contributes to missile defense systems and advanced GNSS simulation.
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Orolia, a Safran Electronics & Defense company, partnered with Xona Space Systems to develop support for Xona’s Low-Earth-Orbit constellation and navigation signals in Orolia’s Skydel-powered simulation and testing products.
Xona Space Systems partnered with Orolia, a Safran Electronics & Defense company, to develop support for Xona’s LEO constellation and navigation signals in Skydel-powered simulation and testing products.
Safran Orolia and Xona Space Systems are collaborating to provide next-generation GNSS simulation tools to Xona’s partners and customers.
Orolia developed the Ultima-DT in response to recent aviation safety mandates to improve global aircraft tracking.
Orolia provides Resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions designed to improve reliability, performance, and safety of critical, remote, or high-risk operations, including GPS/GNSS-denied environments.
Orolia Defense & Security's PRSS1b PRD provides second-generation Cospas-Sarsat signaling that delivers faster and greater location accuracy than any previously fielded tactical location device.
Orolia Defense & Security received initial production authorization to provide PRSS1b Personnel Recovery Devices to the U.S. Army.
Safran Electronics & Defense will offer a complete set of resilient PNT architectures and equipment through its partnership with Orolia.
Orolia provides complementary and synergistic capabilities to Safran Electronics & Defense’s activities in positioning, navigation, and synchronization.
Jean-Yves Courtois is the CEO of Orolia.
Orolia employs more than 435 people in Europe and North America.
Orolia has joined Safran Electronics & Defense after an exclusive negotiation process that began in December 2021.
Orolia has revenues of around €100 million.
Orolia's solutions include atomic clocks, time servers, simulation equipment for GNSS signals, and emergency locator beacons for commercial aviation and military applications.
Orolia created the Orolia Academic Partnership Program (OAPP) to build a community for global PNT research and collaboration at engineering schools and research institutions.
Orolia operates an online forum at learn.orolia.com for PNT users to interact with Orolia experts, share information, ask questions, and receive feedback.
Orolia partnered with timing solutions provider Hoptroff to offer Hoptroff’s Traceable Time as a Service (TTaaS) as an add-on to Orolia’s product suite.
In June, Orolia and U.S. government stakeholders including NOAA and the Department of Defense established proficiency for meeting and demonstrating the newly adopted Second Generation Cospas-Sarsat specification (406 MHz).
Working with Orolia allows Keysight to extend its 0.005 kg device test solution portfolio with advanced GNSS simulation capabilities.
Orolia’s automated and scalable GSG-8 GNSS simulator supports current GNSS constellations including GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou with upgrade paths to future constellations.