Posted on 06/08/2022 6:32:34 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Raytheon Technologies will move its headquarters from Boston's suburbs to Washington, D.C.'s this fall, putting all of the five largest defense companies in National Capital Region.
The offices will be in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington and within sight of the Pentagon.
“The location increases agility in supporting U.S. government and commercial customers and serves to reinforce partnerships that will progress innovative technologies to advance the industry,” the company said in a statement. “Washington, D.C., serves as a convenient travel hub for the company’s global customers and employees.”
Last month, Boeing last month announced it would move its own headquarters from Chicago to Arlington. Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics are both headquartered in Northern Virginia, while Lockheed Martin is based in Bethesda, Maryland, another D.C. suburb.
"With four of the top five major U.S. aerospace and defense leaders now based in Virginia, this decision [by Raytheon Technologies] to headquarter in Arlington demonstrates that the Commonwealth is the best destination for the aerospace and defense community," Gov. Glenn Youngkin said in a statement.
… Raytheon has been based in Massachusetts since its founding a century ago
(Excerpt) Read more at defenseone.com ...
Close to the teat that feeds it.
they need The Farm
This isn’t just about proximity to The Swamp. Northern Virginia has extensive infrastructure in fiber-optic and main internet servers.
Why stay in Massachusetts? The whole state hates them.
They are going from one liberal hellhole to another. But Northern Virginia is closer to the levers of power than Massachusetts.
Inside the Emerald City
Raytheon is run by morons. My brother in law does contract work for Pratt and Whitney which is owned by Ratheon and they are running it into the ground.
fer’ shure you want your best pals around close..
the farm needs a another barn 🐦
Amazon, Boeing, Raytheon, ect... They must really want to keep the real-estate bubble going in the DC metro area.
Actually, DC home prices have risen slower than anywhere else in the past two years...a modest 10% compared to places like Phoenix at closer to 40%
That’s fine as long as it doesn’t bring its MA workers and their cultural and political perversions to VA as well...
Well, a nice home in DC is starts over $2M
Northern Virginia is a liberal wasteland. Not to say that many great conservative people don’t still reside there, but they are the vast minority.
Still better than Montgomery County, MD.
All those retired Generals and Colonels won’t have to move when they get their new jobs at the defense contractor facilities.
Yep...
When I lived, for a couple of years, in Fairfax (Reagan was President), it was just beginning to show some tendencies for political perversion...
In the event of war, doesn’t anyone see the downside to this?
Yea, and minimal infrastructure in roads and other forms of transportation.
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