AEROSPACE PROVES KEY SOURCE OF JOBS.Byline: - Daily News More than 20,000 Antelope Valley residents work locally in aerospace industry jobs some 11,500 at Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. alone; others at Air Force Plant 42 and the Mojave Airport. More than 50,000 commute daily down the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. to jobs in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , Los Angeles or elsewhere. An additional 40,000 or so hold other jobs around the Antelope Valley in schools, hospitals, stores, government offices, or at newer industries that have moved in, seeking affordable land and available workers. Here are some of the Antelope Valley's top private employers Lockheed Martin has 4,200 employees modifying C-130 transports, overhauling F-117 stealth fighters and U-2 spy planes, and making parts for the F-22 fighter, among other work. Boeing has some 1,100 workers on a variety of aircraft and space projects in Palmdale and at Edwards Air Force Base, including assembly of the X-37 spacecraft. Northrop Grumman has about 1,300 workers doing modifications to B-2 stealth bombers, doing joint strike fighter work and assembling Global Hawk spy planes and other unmanned aircraft. U.S. Borax borax or sodium tetraborate decahydrate (sō`dēəm tĕ'trəbôr`āt dĕk'əhī`drāt), chemical compound, Na2B4O7·10H2O; sp. gr. 1. has almost 900 employees in Boron, mining borates in a 650-foot-deep open-pit mine that is one of the world's largest. They also work in the neighboring refinery. Wal-Mart employs 1,400 people in four Antelope Valley stores.Rite Aid has almost 1,000 employees staffing a million-square-foot distribution center big enough to cover 19 football fields. It opened in 1999 to supply more than 400 stores in three states. Countrywide Home Loans employs nearly 1,000 people in a loan servicing center opened last year, and is planning an expansion.Michaels, the craft store chain, opened a distribution center in Lancaster in 1998 that employs 220 people. Senior Systems Technology opened a plant in 1998, employing about 200 workers who manufacture electronic components for communication gear, irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. systems and other uses. Lance Camper builds truck campers at a plant that opened in Lancaster in 1997 and employs about 400 people. Rexhall Corp. employs about 200 workers manufacturing motor homes at a plant it opened in 1996. Anderson-Barrows employs more than 400 workers at a Palmdale plant opened in 1989 to manufacture pipes and fittings. Deluxe Corp. employs almost 300 people at a plant it opened in 1993 in Lancaster to print checks and other financial instruments. BAE Systemsemploys almost 200 workers in Mojave modifying military aircraft. A number of the Antelope Valley's biggest employers are government agencies. Los Angeles County alone employs 3,300 people locally. The Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. employs about 3,200, the Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale nearly 2,000 and the Lancaster School District Lancaster School District may refer to:
Antelope Valley Hospital employs about 2,000. California State Prison- Los Angeles County employs more than 1,200. The Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control employs 430, most at the Air Route Traffic Control Center The principal facility exercising en route control of aircraft operating under instrument flight rules within its area of jurisdiction. Approximately 26 such centers cover the United States and its possessions. Each has a communication capability to adjacent centers. in Palmdale. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) A Global Hawk unmanned spy plane gets towed after its arrival at Edwards Air Force Base from Plant 42 in Palmdale. U.S. Air Force |
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