Closer to the nipple.
Washington DC is now fast becoming the employment center of everything, from finance to defense to software.
Consider :
* Northrop Grumman’s West Coast roots go back to Northrop Aircraft Inc., which was founded in 1939 by John Northrop in Southern California. Today, it is the last major large defense contractor to be headquartered there.
* Other major defense contractors, such as Lockheed Martin Corp. and General Dynamics Corp., are also based in the Washington area.
* Northrop, which reported $33.89 billion in 2008 sales, and Boeing Co. are jockeying for position as the Pentagon’s No. 2 contractor by sales behind Lockheed Martin.
* SAIC, another government contractor focused on consulting and engineering services, last year moved its headquarters from the San Diego area to McLean, Va., not far from the headquarters of the CIA.
Northrup LA
Grumman Bethpage, NY
Oddly, I recall seeing a small building project in Johnstown, PA with a sign ‘future site of (something branch) of Northrup Grumman.’
Hmmmm...wonder how that got there???
Oddly, I recall seeing a small building project in Johnstown, PA with a sign ‘future site of (something branch) of Northrup Grumman.’
Hmmmm...wonder how that got there???
I’ll just guess it won’t be DC or Maryland
Oh great. The lobbyists won’t have to travel as far.
It’s just another sign of the changes in corporate culture over the past 50 years... it used to be “let’s have our executives close to the product, let’s have them understand our manufacturing processes and our engineering prowess so that they can put initiatives in place to improve our product and make a compelling case to sell an outstanding product”... now it’s “let’s have our executives close to the policymakers in Wash DC, so that we can lobby easier”.
Yet another company leaves high tex, high regulation Galifornia. On the positive side, that overcrowding problem soon won’t seem so bad...
- JP
300 out of 30,000. That’s 1 percent. Hardly earth shattering. But smart.