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MBDA Signs Cooperation Agreement With Italy’s CIRA

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Monday, November 8th, 2010

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MBDA Italy and the Italian Centre for Aerospace Research (CIRA) last week announced they have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at advancing in the most effective way the operational skills of each of the two organizations in their respective sectors. The three-year agreement will be automatically renewed each subsequent three years. The agreement came about following the identification of possible synergies in the development of general purpose technologies as well as in the conception, development, qualification and use of Flying…

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