EADS Defence & Security and Premium AEROTEC GmbH Extend Use of HyperWorks

August 13th, 2009 ALZENAU, Germany - NUKEM GmbH, Alzenau, has signed a contract to sell its subsidiary company NUKEM Technologies GmbH to the Russian Atomstroyexport. NUKEM Technologies is active worldwide in engineering, management of radioactive waste and decommissioning nuclear facilities, and with these activities is an outstanding match for the portfolio of Atomstroyexport.

July 29th, 2009 TROY, Michigan and MARSEILLE, France - - CAE suite and use of finite element analysis streamline development processes in the development of medical devices Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and decision-making, and PROTOMED SA announced today that PROTOMED SA has chosen Altair Engineering's computer-aided engineering (CAE) software suite, HyperWorks, to enhance its numerical simulation capabilities. PROTOMED SA continues to expand its medical device R&D services by choosing Altair as its official computational software partner.

July 28th, 2009 LONDON - - Frost & Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on the Global Defence Budget on Tuesday, 11 August 2009 at 4:00pm BST Frost & Sullivan will host a live briefing open to all on Tuesday, 11 August at 4:00pm BST to provide industry participants with an overview of current and anticipated trends in the global defence industry. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) The economic slowdown of 2008 ushered in a range of changes and challenges to the global defence industry and forced national policy makers and budget experts to creatively implement broad cost cutting measures without compromising national security.

June 15th, 2009 PARIS - Ronald D. Sugar, chairman and CEO of Northrop Grumman and Louis Gallois, CEO of EADS issued a joint statement today.

May 13th, 2009 HALLBERGMOOS, Germany - The Eurofighter consortium welcomes today's decision of the United Kingdom to participate in the third production tranche of Eurofighter Typhoon. The UK is the last member of the four nations Eurofighter consortium that have confirmed a final draft contract, negotiated between the industrial consortium and the NATO Eurofighter Tornado Management Agency NETMA.

May 4th, 2009 HALLBERGMOOS, Germany - Cross reference: Picture is Distributed via EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) and can be Downloaded Free of Charge at: www.presseportal.de/pm/55057/eurofighter_gmbh?keygroup=bild - The Shareholder representatives of the Eurofighter consortium appointed with effect from 1st May 2009 Bernhard Gerwert as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Enzo Casolini as the new CEO of Eurofighter GmbH. Mr. Casolini takes over from Aloysius Rauen, who left the company on 30th April.

March 31st, 2009 HALLBERGMOOS, The Netherlands - Yesterday we saw the success of a unique AMRAAM firing trial at Moron Air base in Southern Spain. The trial was the result of close cooperation between the Spanish and British Flight Test Centres of EADS CASA and BAE Systems, under guidance of Eurofighter GmbH, using Eurofighter Typhoons IPA4 and IPA5 - Spanish and British aircraft respectively.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - Join Panel of Experts to Discuss 'Information Services and Infrastructure' Wayne Grundy, Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) director, and Philippe Laflandre, TSCP vice chairman and head of secure information management programme at EADS, will discuss the progress made towards effective and secure information sharing at the 2nd annual Defence IT conference in London. As cyber security threats continue to rise, the imperative to secure information shared between government and commercial organisations in the course of doing business grows.

March 30th, 2009 TROY, Michigan - Strategic decision for HyperWorks helps to enhance modeling and optimization, saving development time, costs and material in aerospace industry Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and decision-making, announced today that EADS Innovation Works, the EADS corporate research and technology organization, has increased its use of HyperWorks throughout its European operations and has added Altair's simulation suite to its preferred set of CAE tools. EADS Innovation Works will use HyperWorks to optimize aerospace structures, with a specific focus on composite material systems, to further the company's technical innovation potential.

March 17th, 2009 ZAHNA, Germany - Tarpan Vodka Launches in the UK Produced by the Tarpan distillery and imported by Drinks and Food UK Ltd., Tarpan is a high quality, triple-distilled vodka from the beautiful region of Masuria in North Eastern Poland. The name 'Tarpan' means 'wild horse' and refers to the now extinct herds of Tarpan that used to roam the vast plains of Masuria.

May 5th, 2009 MUMBAI - Indian engineering giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has forged a pact with a subsidiary of Europe's aerospace and military equipment maker EADS to develop high-end defence electronics out of Pune in Maharashtra. 'The new company will aim at design, development, manufacturing and related services in the fields of electronic warfare, radar, military avionics and mobile systems for military applications,' the two firms said.

July 1st, 2009 EADS wins border security deal with Saudi ArabiaPARIS — European aerospace and defense contractor EADS NV has won a major contract with Saudi Arabia to supply a border security system covering 9,000 kilometers (5,600 miles) of the kingdom's land and sea frontiers, the company said Wednesday. The European aerospace and defense contractor said the system will be put in place over the next five years.

July 27th, 2009 Saudi Arabia orders 3 Airbus tankersPARIS — The Saudi Arabian Air Force has ordered three Airbus tanker aircraft for use in air-to-air refulling missions, Airbus parent company EADS said in a statement Monday. The order comes in addition to the first three A330 tankers that Saudi Arabia ordered in 2008.

July 28th, 2009 EADS net profit up 76 percent in 2QPARIS — Airbus parent company EADS NV said Tuesday that second-quarter net profit rose 76 percent as the European planemaker delivered more aircraft and charges for its delayed A400M military transport eased. Shares rose as European Aeronautics Defense and Space Co.

June 17th, 2009 Arcandor puts 15 subsidiaries into bankruptcyBERLIN — Embattled German retailer Arcandor AG on Wednesday placed 15 additional subsidiaries under bankruptcy protection along with its Karstadt department stores and the Quelle GmbH mail-order company. Arcandor said in documents filed Wednesday with a district court in Essen, where it is based, that the 15 companies include Corporate Service Group GmbH, Primondo Operations GmbH and Foto Quelle GmbH.

July 24th, 2009 European defense ministers discuss future of A400MPARIS — Defense ministers from the seven European nations which launched the troubled A400M military transport plane are meeting in France on Friday to discuss whether to continue with the delayed project and extend a moratorium that expires at the end of the month. The A400M program is being developed by Airbus and parent company EADS and was launched in 2003 with an order for 180 planes from seven governments — Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey.

July 28th, 2009 French report clears 2 firms in EADS insider probePARIS — A report that is part of an investigation by the Paris stock market regulator exonerates Lagardere SCA and Daimler AG of engaging in insider trading concerning the sale of EADS NV stock. Seven former or current executives of EADS and its Airbus subsidiary remain implicated in allegedly using advance knowledge of a delay in the Airbus 380 program to sell company stock before shares plunged, according to the report, which The Associated Press saw Tuesday.

July 3rd, 2009 TOKYO - Japan's Cabinet Friday approved a bill to extend its troops' refuelling operations in the Indian Ocean to help the US-led forces in Afghanistan by another six months till Jan 15 next year, a media report said. The current mission of Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force (MSDF) in the Indian Ocean is set to expire July 15.

February 24th, 2009 ABU DHABI - Defence and security businesses have not been impacted by the global financial crisis, Alexandre de Juniac, executive vice president of French defence systems company Thales, has said here. 'We are not affected by the economic crisis in our main businesses, because we are heavily relying on government spending and the defence spending has not been reduced at this stage everywhere in the world,' de Juniac said Monday.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A K Antony said on Monday that the Central Government is committed to provide state of the art equipment to the armed forces to meet any possible security challenge to the country. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during Question Hour, Antony said defence procurement procedure is being simplified to expedite the process of self-sufficiency of defence forces.