Lockheed Martin is reorganizing Electronic Systems, a missile making unit, and appointing a new person to head it up. The revamp is expected to result in job cuts in the wake of losing two lucrative contracts. It’s been a tough year for the Bethesda based defense contractor. There have been multiple rounds [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio is hosting a career fair on August 27th. An undisclosed number of mid-career positions are available, in logistics, finance, supply-chain management, engineering, contracting, and data management. The starting salary for most of the jobs is $69,000. Job candidates must be US citizens; will need security [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 6, 2009
The Pentagon has upped its order for armored troop vehicles built in part by Bennington, Vermont’s Plasan North American. Wisconsin’s Oshkosh will build an additional 1,700 additional Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain-Vehicles at a cost of $1 billion. That on top of the 2,244 vehicles already ordered. The contract will create 150 jobs at Plasan. Plasan America is [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 19, 2009
The Department of Defense intends to cut 98 positions from a Washington Air National Guard unit that protects the US from Internet-based attacks. The Air National Guard’s annual budget eliminates the positions at the 194th Regional Support Wing by October 1st. Most of the unit is based at Camp Murray, near of Tacoma. Targeted jobs include the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
Boeing’s St. Louis, Missouri-based Integrated Defense Systems unit will cut 1,000 jobs due to Pentagon budget cuts Affected employees will be notified today and tomorrow. Boeing IDS facilities in St. Louis, Seattle and California have been targeted. Most cuts are related to the $160 billion Future Combat Systems Program and a ground-based missile defense program. The Boeing [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Lockheed Martin will cut 600 jobs in New York, as the federal government cancels a contract to produce a new presidential helicopter. The cuts affect 25% of the workforce at Lockheed Martin’s Owego, New York plant. The project was originally to cost $6.5 billion, but costs had skyrocketed to $13 billion; and the aircraft would not have [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
Irving, Texas-based Fluor Corporation will hire over 100 workers in Greenville, South Carolina, as part of a military contract to build and operate military bases in Afghanistan. The US Army contract is worth $7 billion over the next five years. Fluor will manage power, food service and transportation at 62 bases in Afghanistan, plus build and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Oshkosh has been awarded a $1.1 billion-with-a-”b” military contract, and will hire on new workers. The number of new jobs and the hiring time line have not been announced. Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based Oshkosh will manufacture thousands of mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPs, for the Afghanistan war. The firm has held unpaid furloughs and laid off workers this year [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Plasan North America has received a new Pentagon contract, and will hire up to 300 new workers at its Bennington, Vermont facility. Under the contract, Plasan will manufacture armor for military all-terrain vehicles to be used in the Afghanistan war. Up to 200 jobs will be created at Plasan: the rest will come from subcontractors. Plasan America is [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Orbital Sciences Corporation is breaking ground on a new facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Atlantic, Virginia, which will develop, assemble and test the Taurus II rocket. Two-hundred and fifty people will be hired for construction, and the completed facility will employ 400 high-tech workers. Orbital Sciences expects its liquid fuel Taurus II rocket to launch [...]
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