UK defense company BAE Systems has appointed its CIO, Dean McCumiskey as Managing Director of its operations in India.
BAE has formed two defense venture companies BAeHAL, a Bangalore-based software engineering joint venture with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (owned by India’s Ministry of Defense) and Defence Land Systems India in partnership with automaker Mahindra & Mahindra, which has about 20 employees.
Recent successes of BAE Systems in India include an $80 million contract for provision of spares and ground support equipment to the Indian Air Force to aid the BAE Hawk training aircraft operations. BAE is the supplier of the Hawk aircraft.
