The Orlando paper says 920 jobs. And points out that Northop is moving a major project from Florida to California, with jobs moving from New York to Florida. Looks like some execs are looking to snag huge bonuses for shuffling the deck with no real benefit to the company.
That's how you can tell this is 100 percent politics and zero economics. We will all be poorer because of this "development".
Well, I’m astounded that you can’t believe everything you read in the newspaper, especially something coming from the Space Coast Economic Development Commission.
Northrup first moved from NY to Melbourne prior to the first Gulf War with the JSTARS development program, as I recall. I had a neighbor who worked on that program who loaned me VCR tapes of the turkey shoot of Saddam’s tanks by Warthogs and attack helos directed by Boeing 707s equipped with prototype JSTARS ground-attack radar. It was brutal.