Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil – General Dynamics UK today announced the establishment of a
Brazilian subsidiary General Dynamics do Brasil, as British Prime Minister
David Cameron visits Brazil with a large delegation of British business this
week. General Dynamics do Brasil (GD do Brasil) will deliver capability to the
Brazilian defence and security sectors through strategic partnerships with
Brazilian companies; facilitate knowledge transfer from the UK to Brazil; and
work to develop indigenised solutions for its Brazilian customers. It also
intends to establish an EDGE® facility in Brazil to support relationships between
British and Brazilian SMEs and academic establishments, and is participating in
the Science Without Borders programme that will see Brazilian students visit
Britain for university and work placements.
Prime
Minister David Cameron said, “General Dynamics UK’s expansion in Brazil is a
perfect example of how a British company can boost its business by attracting
customers from new markets abroad. This will help to safeguard jobs back at
home and also offer opportunities for small British companies, working in
partnership with General Dynamics, to win new contracts. And it's testament to
the UK's expertise in the defence and technology sector.”
Dr. Sandy
Wilson, president and managing director at General Dynamics UK said, “The
opening of General Dynamics do Brasil and our intention to establish an EDGE®
in Brazil demonstrates our commitment to our Brazilian customers and the
Brazilian market, and will facilitate transfer of knowledge and capability to
Brazil by working with our current and future partners there. We intend to work
here with our Brazilian partners to deliver Brazilian capability.”
Brazil is
currently in the process of procuring a number of defence and security
solutions that would benefit from General Dynamics UK’s systems integration
capabilities, ranging from a £20m Command and Control System in advance of the
Football World Cup and Olympics, to the major US$4bn opportunity, SisGAAZ,
which will integrate a C4I1 network to protect 8000kms of littoral, economic
exclusion zone, and continental shelf extension (primary oil and gas fields) as
well as contributing to search and rescue capability.
General
Dynamics UK is one of the world’s leading providers of integrated security
solutions working across the range of requirements from Government and national
critical infrastructure such as borders and large areas that need protection to
the civil sector including the global Oil and Gas industry. Most recently it
has delivered the entire integrated Port Operating System for the newly
operational Khalifa Port in the UAE making it the safest and most advanced port
in the region; secured BP’s newest oil platforms on the North Sea’s Clair Ridge
and provided a full telecommunications and security infrastructure for the
world’s largest Gas to Liquid facility, Shell’s Pearl GTL site in Qatar. This
expertise and capability will be of significant importance to Brazil’s own
burgeoning Oil & Gas exploration activities, as well as the resulting port
installations that are to be built or improved in the coming years and will
deliver and integration capability to the country that would benefit programmes
like SisGAAZ.
General
Dynamics UK is also one of a very small number of companies that understands
how to use this integration capability to address the security challenges and
requirements of Governments, their security forces, and private enterprises
that wish to protect their valuable assets, whether populations, frontiers,
national infrastructure or facilities from attack or intrusion, and delivers
robust systems with resilience which ensures business continuity. General
Dynamics do Brasil will facilitate the transfer of the knowledge and technology
that has been delivered to border security & surveillance, emergency
control centre and critical national infrastructure programmes in other parts
of the world to Brazil.
Source: General Dynamics UK press release September 28th, 2012
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