Defense giant GE is claiming that Congressman Randy Forbes (R-Va.) had "his facts wrong" when he demanded a Pentagon investigation into the company's partnership with China's AVIC aviation company aimed at building avionics systems for Chinese airliners.
Forbes wrote Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Oct. 17, asking for the Defense Department to investigate the partnership, claiming that the avionics' design was based on the same systems used in the United States premiere fighter jets, the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
However, "Mr. Forbes did not have his facts right -- there is no correlation between the open-architecture operating system for the COMAC 919 to be provided by GE/AVIC and the avionics products provided by GE for the F-22," said GE spokesman Rick Kennedy in a Nov. 10 email to Military.com.
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