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Pratt & Whitney opens digital capability centre in Bengaluru
The firm has started recruiting for the centre’s headcount of 300
Pratt & Whitney executives with Chief Information Officer Rahul Dharni (centre), inaugurate the India Digital Capability Center in Bengaluru / Source- Pratt & Whitney
Connecticut-headquartered leading aircraft engine manufacturer, Pratt and Whitney recently opened a new India Digital Capability Centre (IDCC) in Bengaluru to drive the digital transformation of its global business.
The Centre will be co-located with the company’s India Capability Centre and India Engineering Centre which were established in 2022 and 2023 respectively. It also has an ongoing R&D collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Pratt and Whitney has commenced recruitment for IDCC and expects to have 300 employees in position by 2027. The company operates a Customer Training Centre in Hyderabad, Telangana .
“The expansion of Pratt & Whitney’s digital technology presence in Bengaluru will allow us to leverage India’s aviation and technology talent and accelerate our digital transformation,” said Rahul Dharni, vice president and global chief information officer, Pratt & Whitney.
An official statement from the company states that it “sourced over $500 million in engineering services in India over the past two decades, to include nearly $55 million in the past 10 years from leading aerospace suppliers in India.” It has invested $40 million in engineering and supply chain operations centres in the past two years.
A part of the world’s largest aerospace and defense company, the RTX group, P&W will also work with other group entities including Collins Aerospace and RTX Enterprise Services which have a presence in India. The parent group, RTX, with sales of $68.9 billion in 2023, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
Notably, through much of 2022 and 2023, Pratt & Whitney has been making headlines in India for the wrong reasons: its legal problems with the domestic Indian carrier, Go First.
The airline blamed Pratt and Whitney for the fact that half its fleet of 54 Airbus A320 Neo aircraft remained grounded for extended periods due to alleged defects in their Pratt and Whitney engines. This drove Go First to finally seek bankruptcy protection.
It won an arbitration case in Singapore against the engine maker, though that did not result in final relief. Its future as an airline is still not clear, but a bailout is talked about by another Indian airline, SpiceJet.
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