Boeing hired Indian software developer HCL Technologies Ltd., also known as Hindustan Computers Limited, when the American aircraft maker was laying off its own full-time engineers and outsourcing the work, Mark Rabin, a former Boeing software engineer, told Bloomberg. According to Bloomberg, hiring Indian contractors may have been instrumental in winning Boeing several orders for Indian military and commercial aircraft, such as a $22 billion one in January 2017 to supply SpiceJet Ltd. In online resumes and posts, HCL engineers have said they worked on developing and testing Max flight-display software, and employees of another Indian company, Cyient Ltd., worked with software for flight-test equipment, Bloomberg reported. In addition, Boeing said it didn’t rely on either Indian company for work on a cockpit warning light that wasn’t working for most buyers. “Boeing has many decades of experience working with supplier/partners around the world,” a company spokesman told Bloomberg.

Source: Ethiopian News July 02, 2019 04:30 UTC