Boeing, Airbus to source IT work from India

Boeing, Airbus to source IT work from India
Times of India - Mumbai,India

NEW DELHI: This seems to be the second wave of outsourcing jobs to India. In a bid to bring down production costs, aircraft making biggies, Boeing and Airbus, are increasingly offshoring software development and engineering jobs to Indian IT firms.

Boeing on Tuesday announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement with HCL Technologies to develop software for its new 787 Dreamliner. HCL-T will develop a hosting platform for the flight test computing system and provide software services to many of the 787 systems partners, it said.

The Chicago-based Boeing has also signed a strategic deal with Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore for research in aerospace materials, structures and manufacturing technologies.