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Offset agreements in Poland to reach $1 billion by the end of this year

11 December 2008

The total value of new offset agreements between outside military industry suppliers and their Polish partners is to reach $1 billion by the end of 2008, reported Rzeczpospolita daily.  “This time, we managed to negotiate numerous technology projects,” said Hubert Królikowski, the Offset Department Director at the Ministry of Economy in an interview for Rzeczpospolita.  (Source: Rzeczpospolita “Miliard dzięki offsetowi” Zbigniew Lentowicz, December 10th, 2008). The value of all offset projects currently underway in Poland is estimated at $9 billion. 

One of the American companies involved in the offset projects is Rockwell Collins, Inc., a leading U.S. aviation and information technology manufacturer. They are to deliver new radio technology to Gdynia-based Radmor and aircraft radio technology to the Military Aviation Depot (Wojskowe Zaklady Lotnicze) based in Bydgoszcz. The Military Aviation Depot specializes aircraft repair and overhaul.  Rockwell Collins, Inc.  will also transfer new data links technology to the Air Force Institute of Technology in Warsaw and provide avionics hardware or emulation software to ETC PZL Aerospace Industries at Okecie Airport in support of their building a flight simulator.

As part of offset agreements between U.S. suppliers and their Polish partners, Pratt & Whitney Canada, a leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, will work with the Warsaw Institute of Aviation to perform laboratory analysis on aviation materials.