HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin has completed centralization of its Targets and Countermeasures operations, moving facilities and employees to Huntsville, Ala.
About 100 jobs have been relocated and an integrated system development laboratory was moved from the company to Huntsville, the site of the program offices of both the company and the Missile Defense Agency customer.
The relocation and centralization process began in 2007 when Lockheed moved its Targets and Countermeasures Program office from Arlington, Va.
Lockheed said about 20 of the 100 positions at Huntsville are have been filled by employees from the business unit's operations in Denver and the company is in the process of filling others in the areas of software, systems, electrical and mechanical engineering and support functions.
"Centralizing our core program operations enables us to maintain our cost competitiveness," said Patricia Dare, director of Targets and Countermeasures, Lockheed Martin Space Systems. "This is one more way we are meeting the government's needs for affordability."
About 250 workers are employed by Lockheed Martin on the Targets and Countermeasures Program in Huntsville. Sixty more work in Courtland, Ala.
