Rolls-Royce and SAIC form new company

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(1999), "Rolls-Royce and SAIC form new company", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1999.12771dab.019

Rolls-Royce and SAIC form new company

Rolls-Royce and SAIC form new company

Keywords: Rolls-Royce, SAIC

Rolls-Royce and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) have announced the formation of a new company to serve a range of sectors.

Data Systems & Solutions, L.L.C. is based in Reston, Virginia, USA. The new company brings together Rolls-Royce engineering expertise with SAIC's information technology skills providing services to give better through life performance of customer plant and equipment.

The new company will also have offices in Derby, Gateshead and Bristol in the UK and in the USA in San Diego and Los Altos, California; Huntsville, Alabama; Delaware, Ohio; Houston, Texas: Frederick, Maryland and Knoxville, Tennessee.

Rolls-Royce also reports that it is broadening its maintenance service to RB211 operators who use the four London area airports.

The plan involves expansion of both on-wing and off-wing capabilities at the company's Hatton Cross facility. The Hatton Cross "hospitalisation" centre will have increased capability through an additional range of tooling to perform many major off-wing repairs which currently require engines to be returned to rework shops.

On-wing services at Hatton Cross will be available on call to customers 24 hours day, seven days a week. These will include gearbox and fan changes as well as borescoping and troubleshooting in order to allow a speedy return of aircraft to service.

Rolls-Royce also announced that worldwide repair and overhaul cover for Rolls-Royce AE3007 engines, powering Embraer RJ145,RJ135 and Citation X aircraft is being expanded with the opening of a new European facility.

The test and rework centre at Rolls-Royce, East Kilbride, Scotland, joins existing bases at Rolls-Royce Canada in Montreal and Motores Rolls-Royce in Sâo Paulo, Brazil, all certified to handle the AE3007.

East Kilbride already has test and rework capability for the Rolls-Royce AE2100 engine powering SAAB 2000 and Lockheed Martin C-130J aircraft.

The company further informs us that it is investing £23 million in a new high-technology manufacturing centre in the UK.

The facility will initially employ up to 30 people and will be purpose built at the Sherwood Business Park in Annesley, Nottinghamshire, an Enterprise Zone site close to Rolls-Royce operations in Derby.

The centre will specialise in the production of blisks, advanced components which combine compressor disks and blades as a single part. Blisk technology, which has been developed by Rolls-Royce in Derby, will be used in the EJ200 engine for Eurofighter Typhoon and will be available for new engine designs.

Construction at Annesley was completed in July and the facility will be in production by April 2000.