History

Praxis and SC2 merge to form Altran Praxis, creating an international expertise centre for embedded and critical systems within the Altran Group. SC2, formerly owned by Continental, is a software research centre focused on embedded systems based in Sophia Antipolis on the French Côte d’Azur.

Praxis India opens in Bangalore.

The SPARK User Group is the stage for the announcement of the Praxis and Adacore partnership, with SPARK to go open source.

Praxis receives recognition from the eminent US National Academies and US Defense Technical Information Center for its work in advanced software engineering.

Thales award £3million contract to Praxis to lead the safety programme on the Watchkeeper Tactical Unmanned Air Vehicle (TUAV) system.

Praxis is awarded the iFACTS contract from the UK’s Air Traffic Management provider, NATS. This is described as "the biggest advance in Air Traffic Control since the introduction of radar."

Praxis completes the EAL 5 Tokeneer demonstrator project for the US National Security Agency. All the material from this security related project became publicly available some four years later.

Praxis becomes a Notified Body under the European Railway Directive.

Praxis become the first Independent Safety Assessor on the London Underground winning the role on the Jubilee and Northern Line Upgrade Programme applying Praxis' activeISA™ methodology.

The Ships Helicopter Operating Limit Instrumentation System (SHOLIS) is successfully completed. This is the first production standard Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 4 software development under UK Defence Standard 00-55.

Praxis is purchased by Altran from Deloitte Consulting.

The SPARK technology arrives at Praxis through the acquisition of Program Validation Limited.

Praxis wins the contract to produce a safety management system that eventually becomes the UK’s well known Yellow Book safety management manual for the railway industry.

Praxis is purchased by Deloitte Consulting (then known as Touche Ross) for its software and systems expertise.

The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) award Praxis the contract to deliver the CDIS Air Traffic Management system.

Praxis becomes the first UK company to achieve BS5750 (now ISO9001) for the development of software.

Praxis started business on July 1st 1983.