Ohio is home to several major suppliers of Airbus.
Barring a request by the company’s board to ask for more time to review the changes, the reorganization will be announced on Wednesday with first-half earnings that are expected to show flat operating income at the main Airbus plane making division.
Chief Executive Tom Enders launched a strategy review after failing to secure a merger with UK defence company BAE Systems and instead winning a shake-up in governance last year.
The main change will involve merging the defence and space divisions into one Munich-based unit, called Airbus Defence & Space. This will also incorporate Airbus Military, the Spanish operation which builds refuelling tankers and army transporters.
Eurocopter, the world’s largest civil rotary aircraft maker, will stay as a separate unit and will become Airbus Helicopters.
The core Airbus plane-making business, which makes up close to 70 percent of group revenues, should keep its one-word name.
Analysts say the changes are expected to cut some jobs.
EADS - originally European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co - resulted from the merger of French, German and Spanish assets in 2000.
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