Poland likely to get AWACS contracts totalling zł.250m

On Monday representatives of the company met with entrepreneurs in Warsaw to discuss placing orders totaling zł.250 million. NATO institutions must place orders with domestic producers and service providers to compensate Poland for its contribution to the NATO airborne warning and control system program. Poland has the right to use 17 planes with special radars as part of its membership in the program. Between 2006-2011 Poland will contribute zł.370 million to NATO, which accounts for 3% of the total costs of AWACS. "We want to use the opportunity. We will try to make use of cooperation opportunities with the best producers of electronic systems in NATO," said Wiesław Klembowski of the Industrial Institute for Telecommunications (PIT). (Rzeczpospolita, pp. B1, B3) M.M.