Composite Components were commissioned with designing and building a series of carbon fibre housings for a collection of electrical and computer equipment. The objective was "to create something small and lightweight that would offer almost the same power as one of our existing 100 kg servers".

The arrangement of internal parts, overall design, and composite material selection was very much a collaboration between Thales technical staff and Composite Components.

Although it looks simple the design and manufacture of this housing had many elements to be taken into consideration from the aesthetics, environmental protection, and electrical resistance properties of the selected composite materials to how Thales technical staff can work on and upgrade the components.

The ATAC project was seen as a success by the Thales 'deployables team' and has now led to further work for us on similar defence-oriented electrical and computer-based projects.