[FreeReign]

The electronics and S/W engineers are the ones who will militarize the plane. Several hundred Northrop Grumman engineers out of Melbourne Fla.

Sorry. I thought you were implying that they would move... While the Gulf is nice I sure would hate to move from Melbourne to Mobile.

I apologize. Now that I look at it again, the words "out of" could have been taken several ways.

[e_castillo]

“In the midst of the firestorm that is the contested U.S. Air Force KC-45 refueling tanker program, the first of the new aircraft has been sent to Germany for its cargo conversion.”

How many US jobs is that?
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a67948cf5-c6c8-4aa0-a5dd-5b52bc2bec8a