Within the framework of the official prizes award conducted by the French Association of Terrestrial Armament (L' Association de l' Armement Terrestre), in Paris on March 26th, 2003, INTRACOM was awarded with the ?Prix Ingenieur General CHANSON?, jointly with the French companies Thales Optronics and Bertin-Technologies and the Italian Galileo, for its successful participation in WEAG's (Western European Armaments Group) EUCLID 13.1 research program ?Detection of Chemical War Elements?, an action realizing the common priority of European countries pertaining to ?Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense?.
The French Ministry of Defense awarded the research program in question as the most innovative one, greatly contributing to support actions for land-based operations as well as to domestic security. The Chief of the French Army Staff, General Bernard THORETTE, presented the prize. From the Greek side, the Military Attache of the Greek Embassy in France was present at the prize-awarding ceremony.
INTRACOM has been for many years participating in numerous WEAG research programs aiming at developing state-of-the-art technology in areas of interest relevant to the Armed Forces. For the particular three-year project, a prototype was developed to trace dangerous chemical substances in the air, by using digital spectral processing of an infrared camera signal. INTRACOM and the co-developing companies' objective is to promote the product into the European and international markets.