AMSTERDAM, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On the 21st of June at 11.00 the Chinese Aeronautical Establishment (CAE) will sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) for long term cooperation in Research & Development with the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) from the Netherlands and the German Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW). Under these MoAs the organizations will work together on existing and future R&D projects, in order to support subsidiaries of AVIC and CAE with R&D, strengthen the relation between European and Chinese research projects or work together on new developments.

LE BOURGET, France, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), China's largest state-owned aviation company, today announced that they will open the AVIC-Boeing Manufacturing Innovation Center (MIC) in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China.

IBM today announced that Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. has chosen IBM Embedded ViaVoice software to speech-enable its AVIC-Z1 award-winning aftermarket navigation system that delivers information, entertainment and convenience to drivers.