Hmm, interesting perspective.� I wonder if the folks in Burbank feel the same way as you do.� Which facility were you working for?
Burbank? They shut us down to save the existing Lockheed facility in Sunnyvale.
But didn't they shut down Burbank, the original home of Lockheed, as well?
I worked for the Astro Space division in East Windsor, NJ.
(They also shut down the Astro Space plant in Valley Forge, PA.)
Not completely.
It was originally RCA Astro Space, until GE bought RCA. It became GE Astro Space, and they ruined it by replacing experienced astrospace engineers with inexperienced engineer managers under the asinine belief that a manager who managed a washing machine factory in Memphis could equally well manage a commercial communications satellite facility. It didn't work.
So you're saying that they should have shut down Sunnyvale for a facility that, in your own words, was ruined?
GE eventually sold us to Martin Marietta. Then Lockheed came in and bought out the Martin Marietta executives and shut us down to save their own factories.
Wasn't Augustine from MM?
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