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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowEmployees at Rolls-Royce Group Plc’s Tibbs Avenue manufacturing plant started 2008 not knowing whether they’d keep their jobs. They’re starting 2009 with plenty of work ahead of them.
Rolls-Royce said yesterday it won a multiyear contract to develop fuel-efficient turbine engines for the U.S. Air Force – a deal that could be worth as much as $185 million. The work will be handled by the British aerospace company’s 4,300-employee Indianapolis operation.
Previously known as Allison Advanced Development Co., the Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. plant is the second-largest manufacturing facility in Indianapolis.
The local operation was spared last year when Rolls-Royce announced plans to cut as many as 2,300 jobs in the United States and Europe, and it has been on a winning streak in recent years when it comes to new business.
In August 2007, Rolls said its Indianapolis research center lassoed a nearly $300 million contract to develop a super-efficient engine – adding at least 120 jobs.
In July 2008, Rolls-Royce signed a nine-year, $900 million contract with an Italian aircraft maker to supply turboprop engines from its line of military engines the company designs, develops and manufactures in Indianapolis.
The new deal is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract.
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