Leonardo and Cisco looking at commercial partnership

Italian aerospace business Leonardo and US internet communications and technology company Cisco are to “boost cooperation” and look at the “possibility of joint commercial offerings”. The businesses have signed a memorandum of understanding “with the aim of scaling up their mutual business relations and launching a structured collaboration in the civil and defence industry domains”.  Sectors to be focused on include “cyber security, secure networking, Internet-of-Things, the digital workplace and cloud edge computing”, according to a statement by Leonardo, one of the world’s leading helicopter manufacturers. The companies are to look at tie-ups in areas such as quantum cryptography and