Rapid Fire 10-26-11: Job Scenarios

* The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) commissioned a study [PDF] to measure the likely impact on US employment, were automatic cuts to be triggered by a lack of consensus from the Super Committee. The conveniently scary result is a loss of 1 million jobs, incl. about 300,000 in California, Virginia and Texas. This “sequestration” outcome seems unlikely, but few of the committee’s deliberations have been made public, and time is running short. * Over in Mayport, FL, they’re worried about ship repair job losses, as the naval base stops hosting ships to maintain. The proposed aircraft carrier relocation won’t come in time. * Got Fast Rope? The USAF is interested in a non-exclusive license to your solution. * Saab has submitted their offer to Croatia: a few JAS-39A Gripens as immediate MiG-21 replacements, to be replaced by 8-12 JAS-39C/Ds. Eurofighter is expected to be their main competition. * 1st Canadian CH-147 Chinook helicopter enters final assembly. * LCS 3 Fort Worth, the 2nd Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship from Team Lockheed, completes builder’s trials. * At yesterday’s hearing at the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, DoD officials described the intervention in Uganda as “not open-ended.” * The US […]