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Tanker Contract Could Bring Millions

By Associated Press
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Northrop Grumman official says the construction of a new Air Force tanker in Mobile, could have an economic impact in south Mississippi of more than $12 million annually. Tanker Contract Could Bring Millions
Published: Thu, June 05, 2008 - 9:48 am Last Updated: Thu, July 31, 2008 - 2:04 am
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - A Northrop Grumman official says the
construction of a new Air Force tanker in Mobile, Ala., could have
an economic impact in south Mississippi of more than $12 million
annually.
Leroy Barnidge, vice president for state and local government
relations in Melbourne, Fla., where Northrop's tanker program
headquarters is located, spoke Wednesday to a Pascagoula civic
club.
If the Northrop and EADS North America's joint tanker contract
survives a protest by rival Boeing Co., Barnidge said a couple of
hundred new jobs could come with the contract to Mississippi.
Northrop-EADS plans an aircraft assembly center in Mobile
estimated to cost $600 million and create more than 1,000 jobs.

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