Some good news for Oklahoma’s aerospace industry: Boeing is getting a second Department of Defense contract for B-1 bomber upgrades, and workers at Tinker Air Force Base will perform the installations. The Journal Record‘s Sarah Terry-Cobo on the $65.8 million deal: The initial installation is scheduled to begin at Tinker in November. The equipment for [...]
Oklahoma City is on track to take more than 800 jobs from Wichita, and folks in Kansas are asking questions. Why would Boeing sever historic ties and move its C-130 Hercules and B-1 Lancer programs to OKC? From Wichita Eagle reporter Molly McMillin’s industry postmortem: Oklahoma City’s facility has a good track record, performs well [...]
The defense funding bill approved today by the U.S. Armed Services Committee delays ending an aircraft modernization program underway in Oklahoma City. In 2010, Boeing announced plans to move about 550 jobs to Oklahoma City from Long Beach, Calif, to work on upgrades for the Air Force’s C-130 transport planes and to the weapons system [...]
President Barack Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget, which calls for tax hikes on the affluent and spending to boost economic growth, has set the stage for an election-year showdown with Republicans. It’s a political exercise, and Congress — in typical fashion — will likely ignore much of the president’s proposal. But the president’s budget reflects his [...]
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