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Bruno Sainjon, Director of DGA Operations, has been appointed by decree of the Council of Ministers, as the Chairman of the Board of Administrators of ONERA, as the next Chairman. He will assume his new duties on June 2, 2014.

The online version of the ONERA annual report for 2013 is available. A synthetic overview of the range of ONERA activities through some 2013 ?s flagship projects

The awarding of a prestigious prize from the American Helicopter Society recognises a fruitful cooperation between Onera research teams and their American partners in terms of scientific and technological research on rotating wings.

SONDRA is a Franco-singaporean research laboratory joining ONERA, SUPELEC and two research institutes of Singapour. Sondra carries out research and technology activities on radar observation, combining physics and signal processing

Is the plane that is contacting the control tower really the one that it claims to be? In order to check this, ONERA and its partners are developing a recognition system based on the use of ambient waves. 

Installed at the Onera Palaiseau site, this equipment worth 1.6 million €, mainly financed by the General Commission for Investment (CGI) via the ANR, will enable the development of new metal alloys for various industrial sectors.

Total and ONERA today signed a large-scale research and innovation partnership agreement, spanning five years and budgeted at 30 million euros. This partnership aims to adapt or develop remote sensing technologies for use in oil and gas exploration, security and environmental protection applications.

In order to better understand the link between aeronautical fine-particle emissions and the formation of condensation trails in aircraft wakes, ONERA has implemented, together with Snecma, the MERMOSE test campaign to finely characterize gaseous chemical species and particulate matter emissions of a complete aircraft engine.

Onera has designed and developed Sieleters, an instrument intended to be an airborne infrared hyperspectral imagery benchmark. The first images obtained with it, which are of excellent quality, will undoubtedly achieve this goal.