Now, aerospace design offshored

Mumbai: Growth in outsourcing of aerospace engineering and design is attributed to the ‘offset clause’, which says that aircraft makers supplying to Indian Airlines must source products And services from here.
The aviation boom in the country has triggered off a wave of aerospace engineering and design services to be outsourced to India.
The kind of high-end engineering design services, handled earlier by public sector units like Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), are now being done by companies such as Plexion Technologies, QuEST, Infotech Enterprises and Geometric Software.
Experts attribute the growth in outsourcing of aerospace engineering and design to the ‘offset clause’ mandated by the government, whereby aircraft makers like Boeing and Airbus, when supplying aircraft to Indian companies should also source products and services from here.
10/05/06 Economic Times

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