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Aerospace Comes Back to the Antelope Valley
Even by aerospace standards, the numbers are stunning: 100 new Stealth bombers to be built in the Antelope Valley, thousands of new jobs, and all paid for with $60 billion in federal funds -- with production cost overruns likely to push that much higher.
By Warren Olney • • 16m ListenEven by aerospace standards, the numbers are stunning: 100 new Stealth bombers to be built in the Antelope Valley, thousands of new jobs, and all paid for with $60 billion in federal funds -- with production cost overruns likely to push that much higher. That's the economic windfall from one of the biggest contracts in Pentagon history, won by Northrop-Grumman in competition with Boeing and Lockheed.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Paul von Zielbauer
Producer, 'To the Point'
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
William Hennigan
Los Angeles Times / Chicago Tribune
Robert Kleinhenz
Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation
Gordon Adams
American University / Foreign Policy magazine