Which Way, L.A.?
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
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
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