CNC West Feb March 2019

8 www.CNC-West.com CNC WEST February/March 2019 EXEC H TLINE Continued on page 104....... Boeing Acquires Option on 58- acre Everett Property Boeing and Snohomish County’s Paine Field Airport have signed a deal for the company to potentially lease 58 additional acres for its sprawling Everett jet-manufacturing op- erations. The option agreement, signed Dec. 11 by county officials and Boeing real estate manager Marc Poulin, says Boeing wants the property for “constructing additional aero- space manufacturing facilities and supporting infrastructure, including a taxilane” to sup- port existing Everett operations. Kratos to Ride Aboard 7-Year Space Vector Contract San Diego, CA area Kratos Defense and Se- curity Solutions Inc. said on Dec. 12 that it is a subcontractor to Space Vector Corp. on a rocket project that may last up to seven years. The U.S. Air Force announced on Nov. 16 that it plans to award as much as $424 million in contracts to two prime contractors: Space Vector and competitor Orbital ATK (the latter now owned by Northrop Grumman Corp.). It is unclear how the Air Force will split up the work under the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts. The program is called Sounding Rocket Pro- gram 4. Kratos said it and Space Vector will provide system engineering, vehicle design, manufacturing, integration and launch support services for suborbital rocket vehicles. Work will support prototype weapon systems develop- ment and missile defense system target tests. Kellstrom Defense Acquires Wil- liams Aerospace and Manufac- turing El Segondo, CA based Kellstrom Defense Aerospace (KDA) announced the acquisition of Williams Aerospace and Manufacturing Inc. (WAM) based in San Diego County, California. WAM’s manufacturing capabilities will be combined with the current KDA Engineered Products operating segment and will retain the Williams Aerospace and Manufacturing brand identity in the market. WAM has been a long-term Lockheed Martin Hologram Product Program licensee for the P-3 and C-130 and a manufacturer of parts for the C-5, F-16 and other U.S. OEM defense platforms. Over its more than 20-year history, WAM has developed a range of proprietary tooling for the manufacture of complex defense aircraft parts as well as strong capabilities in ther- moplastic molding, CNC machining and the in- tegration of aerospace and defense aftermarket components. A combination of WAM manufacturing expertise and KDA product design engineering will be deployed to support increased legacy spare parts solutions for the global military aircraft operator community. New 36,000 Square Foot Facility for Northrop Grumman in Mesa, AZ. Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that its Innovation Systems sector opera- tions in Mesa completed the expansion of its Bushmaster® medium caliber cannon production facility. The new 36,000 square foot facility nearly doubles the company’s current produc- tion capacity by collocating warehouse and manufacturing operations into one site. “The city of Mesa is proud that Northrop Grumman chose to expand in the Falcon Dis- trict,” Mesa Mayor John Giles said. “This new facility will bring more high-tech jobs to Me- sa’s growing aerospace and defense industry.” The Mesa-based operation produces world- renowned Bushmaster® family of medium caliber cannons. The Mesa-based operation employs more than 200 full time employees and since the project’s groundbreaking in March has begun the hiring of an additional 50 to 60 new engineering, program management and manufacturing techni- cians as a result of the company’s increased production capacity.