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A SUCCESSFUL EUROPEAN COOPERATION OCTOBER 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 6 It is time to enter the world of Production, Delivery and Support Anna Barba joined as the new Managing Director of CTA International in June 2016, moving to Bourges from her previous role in BAE Systems Australia. In this interview, she shares her vision for the future at CTAI. Welcome to CTA International! How You’ve talked about have you found your first few months CTAI becoming a with us? So this is life at 15000 plus KM production-oriented company. Our biggest challenge is to from home! Welcoming, inquisitive, What does this mean for you? continue to perform and challenging… I immediately felt Everything now revolves around deliver whilst ensuring that the a connection to the people, the production strategy, timeline, the country and the culture. The procedures, planning, resources, mobilisation is completed in order team, the Management and the data etc.; we must reconsider to position the Company for parent companies have all been and develop our tools, methods success in winning future work. very supportive in ensuring that I and procedures to support the felt at ease. That has been really production and delivery approach. capability with a mature culture appreciated. We’ll learn to work side by side with which focuses on goals, roles, com- the Customer to ensure the best munication, and values, practices Based on your previous experiences outcome of the programme. and attitudes. I see the future of at BAE Systems and elsewhere, what CTAI being an organization with do you think you bring to CTAI? What are the greatest challenges an outward looking perspective, My Australian ease…Life for me currently faced by CTAI? Our biggest with the agility to cope with diverse has been one very long learning challenge is to continue to perform markets and challenges. process and will continue to be. If I and deliver, whilst ensuring that the get the feeling in my gut that I can mobilisation is completed in order to Three facts about Anna: make something better than what position the Company for success in it is, then I tend to go after it like winning future work. How do I intend to • I have a zest for life; a dog to a bone. The truth is that approach this challenge? By bringing enjoying it be it work or creating a future always starts with in a change to culture, to systems, socially a conversation, a story, experiences and to people. Our challenge will • I like taking on calculated risk as it always comes with an element shared and lessons learned, and I be to mature with the change and of excitement will bring mine to CTAI... This includes cement it within the next 9 months. • I always anticipate tomorrow as I believe boldness, openness and leadership. there is only a hairline between failure What do you see for the future at and success. What can you share with us about CTAI? A developed operational your vision for the company? CTAI is not just a name but a conglomerate A New Step for CTAI of extraordinary individuals and I plan to empower them to flourish The 10 first canons have just been delivered to the UK MOD and the rate of Produc- and grow. The organization has tion is being accelerated to reach its cruising speed. The turrets equipped with the always been engineering-focussed 40CT cannon and developed by LM for the AJAX and WARRIOR MLI in the UK and by and thus now it is time to enter the NEXTER for the JAGUAR in France are demonstrating their compactness and their fire power. Numerous potential customers on the export market are demonstrating their world of production, delivery and interest for the 40CTAS system and are specifying it in their RFP. support, which ultimately brings CTAI now has to change to respond efficiently to these opportunities growth and succession, not just and establish the 40 CT as a worldwide standard weapon system. for the organization but for the Anna Barba, new MD of CTAI has all the skills and experience to steer individuals. this transformation and I am confident she will lead CTAI to success. Pierre Clouvel, Chairman of CTA International 40 CTAS Prototypes for JAGUAR vehicle enter the Next Phase Business CTAI is developing within the 40 CTAS JAGUAR contract > 40 CTAS: to be integrated with NEXTER Systems, the 40 CTAS, a global product into the JAGUAR Combat Vehicle solution to be integrated into JAGUAR’s turrets. JAGUAR, a new development for a Reconnaissance and Combat Armoured 6x6 Vehicle, is to be delivered by a partnership The 40 CTAS will be integrated into JAGUAR’s two-man consortium between Nexter Systems, Renault Trucks turret and play a key role in the lethality of the JAGUAR Defense and Thales for the French DGA. JAGUAR is Reconnaissance and Combat Armoured Vehicle. the new armoured vehicle in the French government’s 40 CTAS for JAGUAR has now entered the next phase of SCORPION programme, alongside Multi-Role Armoured its development at CTAI, which sees the starting of the Vehicle GRIFFON, which is being developed by the same integration of 40 CTAS prototypes. Delivery of this phase is consortium. expected to be completed by early 2017. The next phase will be the Series Production and delivery of up to 248 units. Production: The first six CT 40 cannons have now CTAI make a been delivered to the UK MoD. These six cannons are the first of the Series Production contract Splash in Bourges for 515 cannons to be delivered for the AJAX programme. People Employees at CTAI threw their support behind their colleagues at the 20th annual “Défi Inter-Entreprises” in Business Development: Export opportunities are September. The “Défi” (French word for “Challenge”) being explored on four different continents, with is 7000m of running, 600m of canoeing, and 3000m of Recent Successes prospects of integrating the 40 CTAS into different running, shared between a team of four colleagues, turrets and vehicles worldwide. which takes place at Lac d’Auron in Bourges. CTAI have always been enthusiastic participants in this event, and Recruitment: CTA International continues to the office coffee room is full of trophies from previous years grow, with 5 new starters joining us in the last to show for it! Congratulations to the three teams of CTAI month. employees who participated and thank you to everyone who came out to support the event. Welcome New Graduates CTA International recently welcomed Jacob and Alex, two Graduates from parent company BAE Systems, who will be working at CTAI for the next six months. Recently graduated Engineers and Project Managers at BAE Systems follow a two year Graduate Development programme, which sees them move around the organisation on 6 month placements. CTAI have been taking on Graduates for several years, and many Graduates have chosen to come back to CTAI after their programme. We wish Jacob CTAI ‘Be Fit’ Challenge and Alex a fantastic six months with us, and readers can Your social media pages may have been dominated in re- look forward to hearing about their experiences in an cent months by the 22 push-up campaign. Initiated in the upcoming newsletter. United States, the campaign has spread worldwide, and new Managing Director Anna Barba is now bringing the challenge to CTA International! The first to be nominated And finally… by Anna for the challenge was Technical Support Manager Tony Holland, who knocked out the first day of his 22 Push- With all these new arrivals, inevitably there are some Up challenge in im- people that have recently left CTAI. Whether they are off pressive time outside experiencing new adventures and new challenges, or the CTAI offices. The enjoying a well-deserved retirement, we thank them for challenge continues their contribution at CTAI and wish them all the best for around the team at the future. CTAI..