Northstar Aerospace closing Anderson plant
The Anderson plant, which opened in 2006 and makes aircraft parts, has about 40 employees.
The Anderson plant, which opened in 2006 and makes aircraft parts, has about 40 employees.
Four-year agreement to provide engines for tanker aircraft is the latest military contract snared by Rolls-Royce’s local operations.
Rolls-Royce Corp.’s Indianapolis manufacturing facility has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract by the U.S. Army to
develop a digital engine control for one of its helicopters.
Rolls-Royce Corp.’s Indianapolis operations will manufacture 78 turboshaft engines for U.S. Navy and Air Force helicopters
under the terms of a mammoth $160.6 million military contract.
The recession decimated Indiana’s auto-parts makers, but many other manufacturers in the state survived. After a year
adrift in the recession, they see signs of land ahead.
The good news continues for Rolls-Royce Corp.’s Indianapolis operations, which this week received an $11.1 million contract
to make gas turbine engines for the Army’s OH-58D Kiowa reconnaissance helicopters.
Rolls-Royce Corp. said Monday that the U.S. Air Force has awarded its Indianapolis operations an $8.5 million contract to
provide spare engine parts for the C-130J military transport aircraft.
Despite a vaguely worded veto threat by President Barack Obama, the House on Thursday easily adopted a major defense
policy bill that calls for continued development of a costly alternative engine for the Pentagon’s next-generation fighter
jet.
The measure holds potential bad news for Indianapolis engine maker Rolls-Royce because it does not contain funding for a key
jet engine the company produces, but lawmakers are expected to restore funding when the Senate and House combine bills into
a final version.
Rolls-Royce, the British jet engine maker, isn’t taking a position on health care reform, but let’s drag them into it, anyway,
because Rolls-Royce’s business model might interest the crowd advocating for reform via market forces.
While military contractors scramble to protect big projects from Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ budgetary ax, Indianapolis
engine-maker Rolls-Royce is sitting pretty.
Rolls-Royce is courting customers for its RR500TS helicopter engine, unveiled recently at Heli-Expo in Anaheim, Calif.