RTX’s Pratt & Whitney division is scaling up operations in South Asia with the launch of its new India Digital Capability Center (IDCC) in Karnataka's capital city of Bengaluru.
The multimillion-dollar facility will sit alongside the company’s engineering and supply chain and business transformation on a global scale. IDCC will also work closely with other RTX business units in India, namely Collins Aerospace and RTX Enterprise Services.
"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 Pratt & Whitney v-p and chief information officer Rahul Dharni.
Hailed as a tech hub, Bengaluru has served as a research and development site for Pratt & Whitney since 2012 after the aerospace manufacturer opened an office at the Indian Institute of Science. In 2015, the company launched its India Customer Training Center in Hyderabad.
Over the past two years, P&W has invested $40 million in its engineering and supply chain centers and has begun recruiting its first batch of a planned total of 300 employees for IDCC by 2027. The last two decades have seen the company source more than $500 million in engineering services in India, including nearly $55 million in the past 10 years from leading aerospace suppliers in the country.