{"id":21,"date":"2011-02-09T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-02-09T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T14:57:30","slug":"cassidian-opens-defence-engineering-centre-in-bangalore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Cassidian opens defence engineering centre in Bangalore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore : With an aim to achieve an edge over its competitors, Cassidian, the defence and security division of European Aeronautic Defence &amp; Space (EADS), has set up an engineering centre for its military aircraft, defence avionics and homeland security systems in Bangalore to develop products for the Indian market.<br \/>\nEADS already has an Airbus R&amp;D and engineering centre for its civilian aircraft in the city that has been operational for around a year now.<br \/>\nWhile several companies have been off-shoring engineering work in difference disciplines to India, this is first instance of a foreign company opening its defence-oriented engineering centre in the country.<br \/>\nStefan Zoller, CEO of Cassidian, said the move had been driven by the growing potential of India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s defence market and its emerging aerospace manufacturing ecosystem.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The engineering centre goes to show our commitment to increase our industrial footprint in this rapidly growing country. It makes complete sense for a nation to develop its own product and export it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>\nThe centre will be staffed largely by Indian engineers, Zoller said, adding that the company would raise the number of employees at the facility to 200 by the end of 2012 from the current 60.<br \/>\n09\/02\/11\u00c2\u00a0 Suparna Goswami Bhattacharya\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/bangalore\/report_aero-india-2011-cassidian-opens-defence-engineering-centre-in-bangalore_1505271\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News &amp; Analysis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangalore : With an aim to achieve an edge over its competitors, Cassidian, the defence and security division of European Aeronautic Defence &amp; Space (EADS), has set up an engineering centre for its military aircraft, defence avionics and homeland security systems in Bangalore to develop products for the Indian market. EADS already has an Airbus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,11,18,19],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cassidian","tag-defence","tag-eads","tag-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/aeroindia2011\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}