EADS plans engineering hub in India

Major global aviation and defence consortium, European Aviation, Defence and Space company will invest in an engineering centre in India to develop aviation software and aircraft designs for its planes and other systems.
The centre, for which land has been leased at the upcoming new greenfield Bangalore airport, would house units of major Indian software firms like HCL, Satyam and Infosys as well as some European companies to develop specific software and designs, EADS (India) CEO Yves Guillaume told PTI.
The software would be produced for defence systems as well as planes like the largest Airbus A-380s and A-350, which is in the pipeline, besides the Airbus military aircraft.
All investments on this centre of EADS, which has aircraft major Airbus Industrie as one of its business units, as well as the purchases over the next 15 years would amount to over two billion Euros.
03/04/07 PTI/Rediff

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Categories: Foreign Apr 2007, General Aviation Apr 2007