Industry must boost IT to grow and cut costs
Information technology (IT) specialist CSC aims to increase its European aerospace and defense business by up to 10 percent year-on-year as it seeks to cap

Information technology (IT) specialist CSC aims to increase its European aerospace and defense business by up to 10 percent year-on-year as it seeks to capitalize on the trend for companies to look for business in new areas.

U.S.-based CSC, which employs 94,000 and has annual sales of $16 billion, sees “major opportunities” in Europe, mainly helping companies achieve greater efficiency and find new market sectors. “IT has traditionally been seen as an overhead,” Gareth Evans, CSC European vice president for aerospace and defense, told AIN in Farnborough, “but it is time to move out of the basement and become a strategic enabler for growth.”