The EADS Division is committed to increase its industrial footprint

Cassidian considers India as a key market with an expanding defence and security industry and even more so as a rapidly growing country which offers excelllent opportunities for long-lasting strategic partnerships. Therefore Cassidian is fully committed to invest in India’s industry and people and is ready to listen to and learn from its Indian customers. In the past few years, Cassidian created several partnerships with organisations such as the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) which build a solid basis to expand the cooperation with Indian companies.

An excellent example for the commitment to increase the industrial footprint in India is the new Cassidian Engineering Centre in Bangalore which has been established to provide engineering services to European partners as well as Indian customers. The Engineering Centre is the first defence-related centre of this kind created by a foreign company in India. 25 Indian engineers from the Engineering Centre in Bangalore have already been sent to the facilities in Germany to attend technical and intercultural training courses.

An excellent example for the commitment to increase the industrial footprint in India is the new Cassidian Engineering Centre in Bangalore which has been established to provide engineering services to European partners as well as Indian customers. The Engineering Centre is the first defence-related centre of this kind created by a foreign company in India. 25 Indian engineers from the Engineering Centre in Bangalore have already been sent to the facilities in Germany to attend technical and intercultural training courses.

Major programme is the Eurofighter Typhoon which is developed and manufactured by Alenia Aeronautica/Finmeccanica (Italy), BAE Systems (UK) and EADS (Germany, Spain). Up to now, the orderbook comprises more than 700 orders from six customers (Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Austria, Saudi Arabia) and 250 aircraft have been delivered. Deliveries of 15 aircraft to Austria as the first export customer have been completed and deliveries of 72 aircraft to Saudi Arabia as the second export customer are making progress.

Cassidian offers integrated solutions for network-centric operations, flexible and interoperable services as well as outstanding communication capabilities based on the latest technology. As an example for the commitment to India, Cassidian acted as the design and integration authority to the Indian Army for its test bed system called Parikshak. This system is being used to help the Indian Army investigate the capabilities that could be delivered for the new Tactical Communications System (TCS) project.