Projections show that President Obama’s proposed budget for NASA, which would cancel development of new rockets and spacecraft, would cost 23,000 workers their jobs at Kennedy Space Center and outlying areas. The total includes 9,000 “direct” space jobs and 14,000 “indirect” jobs that include hotels and restaurants, said Lisa Rice, president of Brevard Workforce. The organization [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 7, 2009
A new university study predicts that Louisiana will gain 35,800 jobs over the next two years, with Monroe adding jobs at the highest rate and New Orleans, still struggling to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, adding jobs at the slowest pace. The study also highlights two wild cards that could change the numbers significantly. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 6, 2009
NASA contractor ATK Space Systems will initiate 550 layoffs as they begin to phase-out of the space shuttle program. After the layoffs, ATK Space Systems will be still be home to around 3,900 employees between three different locations in Utah. Employees were aware of the downsizing back in July. Over 130 of them accepted voluntary [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 17, 2009
Lockheed Martin will cut 800 workers from its space systems unit by the end of the year. The unit supplies advanced systems for national security and military, civil government and commercial customers. Its products include space flight systems, navigation, meteorological & communications satellites, and ballistic missiles. The layoffs target technical, managerial and administrative jobs at plants in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
United Space Alliance, NASA’s primary contractor for the space shuttle program, will lay off 400 employees in October, as the program winds down. The final shuttle launch will be in September 2010. Layoffs may be avoided through early retirements. More than half of the jobs targeted are in Florida. United Space Alliance is a spaceflight operations company, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 2, 2009
The National Aeronautics & Space Administration laid off 160 manufacturing workers this week, the first round of 900 job eliminations as the space agency winds down the Space Shuttle program. Eight final space missions remain for the three remaining space shuttles; the program will close down at the end of 2010. The layoffs this week affect workers [...]
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