Jobs for Bucks: Lockheed in US weather sat deal
NOAA's new GOES R satellites will be built at Lockheed Martin's Newtown and Waterton, Colo. plants
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is sending people to Newtown, Bucks County this morning to announce the local Lockheed Martin engineering facility and plant (and the Lockheed plant in Waterton, Colo.) has won contracts to build NOAA's R-series Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES R) for National Weather Service forecasters.
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., was on hand to share the glory. Murphy's statement: "The NASA contract, worth approximately $1.09 billion, will enable Lockheed Martin to construct revolutionary imaging technology for NOAA, which is used to generate critically important severe weather forecasts. Over 50 new jobs will come to Bucks County through this project, with many more expected through 2010." Also says he helped "fight" for these jobs. We asked his staff for more info on that. Who lost?