The facility, located within the premises of the Airbus Engineering Center India, is part of the EADS "global research and technology strategy," EADS Chief Technical Officer Jean Botti said at the opening ceremony.

Yann Barbaux, head of the EADS Global Innovation Works unit, said Bangalore is India's aerospace and IT hub, making it important for EADS to be there. "The opening of this new branch of EADS Innovation Works, the third one outside of Europe, will again put some fresh ideas in our innovation process," he said.

EADS Innovation Works India will manage and broker R&T projects for the group's business units and the corporate R&T organization.

Some of the projects carried out at the facility will be in collaboration with Indian partners including the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institutes of Technology. EADS Innovation Works India will also run its own projects using internal resources at its own facilities.

The projects will capitalize on Indian capabilities in fields including numerical simulation of complex physical systems, multidisciplinary optimization, high-performance computing and radar technology, an EADS statement said.

The Airbus Engineering Center India has been operating since 2007 and employs around 120 local engineers, expected to increase to around 400 by 2012.

The center outsources work to around 20 Indian IT and engineering service providers, including Infosys Technologies Ltd., Satyam Computer Services Ltd. -- now owned by Tech Mahindra Ltd. -- Quality Engineering and Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Quest) and HCL Technologies Ltd.

The opening of the EADS facility strengthens the Airbus Engineering Center's capabilities. The passenger plane maker announced in October that it will move 20 percent of its engineering and design activities to low-cost countries by 2012. A majority of it is going to India in a move to bring down the cost of making planes by as much as 40 percent to better compete against its main rival Boeing Co.

But Boeing, too, has targeted India for investment. It signed a 10-year, $1 billion manufacturing contract with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. in December 2007 for making subsystems for its fighter planes such as the F-18 Super Hornet and Apache helicopter.

France-based NetASQ, an intrusion-detection and prevention software solutions provider -- and an Airbus subsidiary -- started operations from Hyderabad this month, according to a report in India's Business Standard newspaper. NetASQ will have support from Hyderabad-based Zoom Technologies.

"We have an investment outlay of $1 million initially," said Dominique Meurisse, executive vice president for sales and marketing. "We aim to capture the network security market with aggressive marketing and brand-visibility techniques."

The company is managing 30 percent growth a year, he added. It believes it can capture around 20 percent of the $2 billion annual security solutions market in India. NetASQ will launch U-series firewalls and Mfiltro anti-spam appliances in the country.

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