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            <description>Finmeccanica is Italy's leading high-tech company, operating in the design and manufacture of helicopters, aerostructures, satellites, space infrastructure, missiles and defense electronics. It plays a leading role in the European aerospace and defense industry, and participates in some of the biggest international programs in the sector through well-established alliances with European and American partners.</description>
            <link>http://www.finmec.com</link><item><title>Finmeccanica publishes its annual corporate governance report</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_RelazioneAnnuale_29_04_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>SELEX GALILEO's Atomic Clock: A Second that Lasts Forever</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/28Apr08_NS_SG_MASER-GioveB_eng.pdf</link></item><item><title>U.S. Coast Guard awards Selex Galileo contract </title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/23Apr08_PR_SG_US-COAST-GUARD_eng.pdf</link></item><item><title>Finmeccanica schedules Board of Directors' meeting to approve quarterly results</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_CdA_14_04_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>No impact of changed 787 schedule on Finmeccanica guidance</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_Boeing787_09_04_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>ELSAG North America  to install equipment on a city school bus</title><description>Syracuse School District is 1st in the Nation to use ELSAG’s Mobile Plate Hunter 900, a license plate recognition technology, to identify motorists who illegally pass stopped school buses.</description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/SyracuseELSAGMobilePlateHunter-NewsRelease-FINAL.pdf</link></item><item><title>Bombardier and Finmeccanica sign cooperation agreement for the development of a new very high-speed train</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_AnsaldoBombardier_01_04_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Japan Coast Guard Takes Delivery Of Its First Three AW139 Helicopters</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/agusta03-31-08.pdf</link></item><item><title> 	Ansaldo STS expands into Africa </title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/Ansaldo_STS_South_Africa_and_Botswana.pdf</link></item><item><title>Alenia Aermacchi signs MoU with ENAER to cooperate in trainer aircraft</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_AleniaAermacchiaMoUENAER_27_03_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>SELEX GALILEO participates in Sat Expo Europe 2008 from the 27 to the 29 in Rome</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/PN_SELEXGA_27mar2008_SG_SATEXPO.pdf</link></item><item><title>Eurofighter - Final Tranche 1 Eurofighter Typhoon delivered to the Core Programme</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/alenia-03-26-08.pdf</link></item><item><title>Poste Italiane and Finmeccanica - partnership with Egypt Post for technological innovation</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/Egypt_Post_ENG.pdf</link></item><item><title>Alenia Aeronautica - successfully completes ultimate load testing on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner horizontal stabilizer</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/alenia_03-20-08.pdf</link></item><item><title>SELEX Galileo: Further successes with Jules Verne ATV space activities</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/SelexG_031708_ATV_ENG.pdf</link></item><item><title>Board approves 2007 results.</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_FY2007_17_3_08_EN.pdf</link></item><item><title>Ansaldo Energia signs two contracts with Atel worth over 500 million Euro</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_AnsaldoEnergiaATEL_13_03_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Alenia Aeronautica: Four Eurofighter Typhoon Air Forces United in Exercise</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/alenia-03-13-08.pdf</link></item><item><title>Ansaldo STS: Requirement to provide information to the public </title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ansaldosts-03-14-08.pdf</link></item><item><title>Clarification on EU Commission decision</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_PrecisazioneDecisioneUE_11_03_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Alenia North America:  Board of Directors Approves the Creation of a U.S. Defense Company to Manage Defense Business</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ANA ADC Draft 030408 PDF.pdf</link></item><item><title>SELEX Galileo: SELEX GALILEO's hyper spectral technology on board the hearth observation ASI mission PRISMA</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/SelexG_030508_PRISMA_HYPER_ENG.pdf</link></item><item><title>Finmeccanica: the buyback programme</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_AzioniProprie_03_03_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Finmeccanica cements its aeronautical operations in Piedmont, as it presents the Corso Marche project in partnership with the Turin Municipal Authority</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_CorsoMarche_29_02_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Finmeccanica, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and their French partners amend the shareholders agreement regarding STM</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_STM_27_02_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Finmeccanica launches share buyback programme</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/Com_Fin_BuyBack_28_02_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Ansaldo Fuel Cells and ENEL sign partnership agreement to build a fuel cells plant</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_AnsaldoFC-_Enel_ENG.pdf</link></item><item><title> Alenia Aeronautica - the Italian Coast Guard orders a third ATR42MP Surveyor... </title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/alenia2_26_08.pdf</link></item><item><title>New assembly line for the AW139 inaugurated in Philadelphia</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_AWPhiladelphia_19_02_08_ING_Elicotteri.pdf</link></item><item><title>Finmeccanica approves financial calendar for 2008</title><description>Finmeccanica's board of directors has approved the financial calendar for 2008</description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_EventiSocietari_29_01_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Alenia North America: retired Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr. elected Chairman of Board of Directors</title><description></description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_AdmiralGiambastiani_24_01_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Shareholders' meeting approves share buyback programme</title><description>The Annual General Meeting of Finmeccanica at its meeting today approved the share buyback
programme proposed by the Board of Directors' on the 21st November 2007 for up to approximately
8% of the company's share capital</description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_Assemblea_16_01_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Giorgio Zappa's statement on the Boeing 787 programme</title><description>"Delays in the maiden flight of the Boeing 787 do not impact on Alenia Aeronautica or Finmeccanica in
the 2008 financial year, either in terms of the manufacture of components for the new aeroplane, as
volumes have been confirmed, or in economic/financial terms, as agreements have already been
reached".</description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/NotaStampa_Zappa787_16_01_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>Finmeccanica presents its 2006 Environmental Report</title><description>The Environmental Report presented by Finmeccanica today - now in its second edition - shows the
Group's commitment to the environment and its effective and efficient use of resources.</description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_RapportoAmbientale2006_15_01_08_ING.pdf</link></item><item><title>SELEX Sistemi Integrati is awarded a contract worth 230 million Euro for security</title><description>SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica company, signed a contract worth 230 million Euro with the
Gendarmerie Nationale Algérienne to provide a Large System for Homeland security.</description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_SELEXSIAlgeria_10_01_08_ING_ElettronicaDifesa.pdf</link></item><item><title>Ansaldo Energia wins order in Egypt worth 90 million Euro</title><description>Ansaldo Energia, a Finmeccanica company and leading supplier of components and services for
power generation plants, has won an important contract in Egypt worth 90 million Euro.</description><link>http://www.finmec.com/themes/garland/pages/press_pdfs/ComFin_AnsaldoEnergiaEgitto_09_01_08_ING_Energia.pdf</link></item></channel></rss>