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8 www.CNC-West.com CNC WEST October/November 2017 EXEC H TLINE Continued on page 88....... Order for Two 747-8 Freighters and Four 777-300ERs Boeing and Qatar Airways announced an order for two 747-8 Freighters and four 777-300ERs (Extended Range), valued at $2.16 billion at list prices. The orders were previously unidentified on Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries website. The airline also received the first of its 747-8 Freighters at a delivery ceremony at- tended by His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive and Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Kevin McAllister. Orbital Acquisition Would Be a Big Addition to Northrop’s San Diego Assets Northrop Grumman Corp. stands to gain an even higher profile in San Diego if the com- pany completes its $9.2 billion acquisition of Orbital ATK. Orbital ATK operates the former Composite Optics factory in San Diego’s Miramar neigh- borhood. The factory makes satellite bus structures, or chassis, including those at the core of the latest GPS satellites. The busi- ness makes other structures out of composite materials, including parts for major unmanned aircraft programs. A second location, Orbital ATK’s radio fre- quency test facility in Rancho Bernardo,CA. holds a 96-foot-high chamber for testing an- tennas and radar domes. Buyer Northrop Grumman already has a big presence in San Diego County. Its unmanned sys- tems center of excellence in Rancho Bernardo, CA runs unmanned aircraft programs including the Global Hawk family of high-altitude sur- veillance planes, and the Fire Scout helicop- ter used by the U.S. Navy. The business also has a good shot at getting the contract for the Navy’s first unmanned, fixed-wing plane to operate from an aircraft carrier. ATK opened a 60,000-square-foot facility to build spacecraft buses near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in 2011, increasing its lo- cal footprint by 40 percent. The building is optimized for lean manufacturing. Kratos Receives $2.2M Contract for Unmanned Aircraft Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Inc. recently received $2.2 million in contract awards for one of its newest jet-powered un- manned aircraft projects, the business said. Kratos offered few other details, includ- ing the type of aircraft or the name of the customer. The deal includes related services. Kratos said it is scheduled to deliver its product in the next 12 months. The University City, CA.-based business used this summer’s Paris Air Show to unveil two projects, the XQ-222 Valkyrie and the UTAP- 22 Mako drones, which are both what the U.S. Air Force calls low-cost attritable aircraft. Kratos’ unmanned aircraft unit in Sacramento also makes target drones. The business said in summer that it received an order for six high-performance unmanned aircraft from a U.S. government customer. Southern California Metal Pro- cessor Buys Division All Metals Processing of Orange County LLC acquired Triumph Processing-Embee Division Inc. from its parent, Berwyn, Pa.-based Tri- umph Group Inc., on undisclosed terms. All Metals, owned by Watson Family In- vestments LLC in Newport Beach since 2015, specializes in metal finishing processes for the aerospace, automotive and industrial equipment industries. It employs 147 at its 53,000-square-foot facility in Stanton, CA. The former Triumph division, also a metal finishing shop, was founded in 1948 and will be renamed Embee Processing. It generated approximately $42 million in revenue in its fiscal 2017, which ended on March 31. Its man- agement, technical and supporting staff will continue operations at its 103,000-square- foot, 10-building plant in Santa Ana.