NTS providing Meggitt PLC with outsourcing services CALABASAS, Calif., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. testing and engineering company National Technical Systems Inc. will provide outsourced services for Britain's Meggitt PLC under a five-year agreement. Meggitt PLC is an engineering group that specializes in development and production of aerospace, defense and energy market components and subsystems used in extreme environments. The outsourced services to be provided include engineering of test plans, procedures, fixture and complex test setups, data acquisition and controls, and reports, NTS said. "Meggitt is an engineering company that is well-respected internationally and we look forward to expanding our business relationship with them," said William McGinnis, president and chief executive officer of NTS. This agreement gives NTS the opportunity to provide Meggitt new and different services and our close collaboration with them will allow us to extend into additional areas of business outside our traditional commercial aerospace work. Our business relationship with Meggitt allows us to grow as they grow, and vice versa, and we believe this relationship will be beneficial to both parties in the future. The two companies have a long history of collaboration in the civil aerospace market.