# ELSAG / LPR About (Leonardo US — product-line history) > *The vendor's own product-line history page tracing the ELSAG ALPR product line through three corporate reorganizations from ELSAG North America (pre-2014) → Selex ES Inc. (2014–2024) → Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, Inc/LLC (2024–present). Primary record for the corporate-lineage timeline, the parent-company relationship to Leonardo S.p.A. (Rome, Italy), and the vendor's self-described data-handling posture ("Data Autonomy: The LPR data you collect belongs to your agency").* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC - **URL:** https://www.leonardocompany-us.com/lpr/about-us - **Archived:** 2026-06-05 via firecrawl basic-proxy markdown conversion - **Wayback snapshot:** save pending ## Extract — verbatim (lightly cleaned) ### Our history > *"Leonardo S.p.A, a globally recognized leader in advanced technologies, has a multi-faceted heritage comprised of ground-breaking innovations in aerospace, defense, and security. Headquartered in Rome, Italy, our parent company is a trusted long-term partner of choice for governments, institutions, and business customers, delivering cutting-edge and dual-use technologies that strengthen global security and protect people, territories, infrastructure, and cyber networks."* > *"In 2014, Leonardo S.p.A. combined three of its U.S. companies—ELSAG North America, Selex System Integrators, and Selex Communications—to form a subsidiary, Selex ES Inc., representing 100 years of U.S. based operations."* > *"In 2024, we evolved our subsidiary's identity from Selex ES Inc. to Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, Inc, a change that better reflects the synergy between our brand and the cutting-edge products we offer."* ### Data-handling self-description > *"Our commitment to our customers, our industry and the public extend to our promise to respect privacy rights. At Leonardo, we are fully committed to operating within regulations established by state and local jurisdictions on an individual's right to privacy. Furthermore, we do not gather data privately or sell access to any LPR data. We research who we're selling our systems to, ensuring our customers have a legitimate use for the data."* > *"**Data Autonomy** The LPR data you collect belongs to your agency. You choose what to do with it, whether to share it, and with whom. Leonardo will never access it or give anyone else access to it."* ### Product positioning > *"For over two decades, Leonardo's ELSAG license plate reader technologies have been successfully aiding law enforcement with their missions designed to keep people and communities safer. Our fixed, mobile, and custom LPR solutions offer force-multiplying efficiencies for vehicle-related missions such as crime investigations, traffic management, school safety, finding missing persons, infrastructure security, homeland security, tolling, parking management, and more."* > *"**Warranty Assurance** Every Leonardo LPR hardware purchase includes a one-year limited warranty with optional extended coverage to ensure lasting service."* ## Notes - **Tier: 2** — vendor's own corporate-history page on the operating subsidiary's primary domain. - **The 2014 and 2024 corporate reorganization dates** are the load-bearing chronological anchors. The Selex ES NCPA RFP 15-22 response (Selex ES era — 03/21/2022) and the Arkansas State Term Contract (post-rebrand — 08/06/2024) sit on opposite sides of the 2024 rebrand event, which explains the entity-name shift from "Selex ES Inc." in the RFP to "Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC" on the Arkansas contract. - **Entity-form discrepancy.** The vendor's About page writes "Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, Inc" but the Arkansas Term Contract names "LEONARDO US CYBER AND SECURITY SOLUTIONS LLC" and the broader leonardocompany-us.com/leonardo-about-us page consistently uses "LLC." The NC Secretary of State filing (not yet retrieved this cycle) would resolve this; the operative form per the Arkansas contracting record is **LLC**. - **Vendor data-autonomy claim** ("Leonardo will never access it or give anyone else access to it") is the vendor's self-description. The HIDTA LPR Network License bundled into ASP's procurement establishes an inter-agency data-sharing infrastructure that the vendor enables (the customer agency opts in by purchasing the HIDTA License); the vendor-side and customer-side data-sharing posture are not in tension with the vendor's "customer choice" framing, because the HIDTA LPR Network license is procured by the customer agency and operated under HIDTA's data-sharing-policy framework, not by Leonardo's own data-aggregation infrastructure. - **The "100 years of US-based operations" claim** (covering ELSAG North America + Selex System Integrators + Selex Communications combined) is the vendor's framing of its corporate continuity; the corpus does not need to evaluate this claim for the ASP-procurement documentary chain.