While talk about this has been doing the rounds for a while, the company said it’s ready to open the EADS Defence and Security (EADS-DS) competence centre. It was announced at the ongoing Berlin air show.
The centre will come up initially at the Airbus Engineering Centre on Old Madras Road. It’ll be the third EADS facility here, the other two being Airbus centre and EADS Research and Technology Centre.
The new one will be a product development centre with products for global and European markets and eventually the Indian market too. It will effectively be part of the global research & product development chain of the parent EADS. The centre will start with about 15 engineers and scale up to 250.
EADS officials said the new centre will come up regardless of whether the EADS Eurofighter will be selected by the Indian Air Force which is looking at purchasing 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft. “Our presence is part of a longterm strategy,” officials said.
EADS has ongoing partnership with Defence Research and Development Organisation and Defence Avionics Research Establishment and is supporting the Light Combat Aircraft programme. EADS had come in for LCA flight test work previously and has now been approached to assist in the LCA naval version programme.
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