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Lockheed Martin is bringing 100 high-paying jobs to Huntsville as it works to consolidate its Command, Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program by mid-2016.
The global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company said it will consolidate the C2BMC program, which has a presence in Huntsville, Colorado Springs, Colo., and the Baltimore/Washington metro.
Rob Smith, vice president of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), said Lockheed is exiting the Baltimore/Washington area. Consolidating in Huntsville and Colorado Springs will result in significant cost savings from a facilities perspective, he added.
“It also makes a lot of sense from a customer perspective for us to have more of a presence here locally with the customer,” he said. ” … As we bring more skills and more capabilities here, it allows us to also execute additional business out of the Huntsville area, even business that’s not with MDA.”
Lockheed, which has 1,400 Huntsville employees, has already started the consolidation and expects the transition will be complete by June 2016. Smith said a small number of Baltimore/Washington area workers will transfer to Huntsville, while remaining employees will be moved to other programs within the company.
The full-time positions, which will offer benefits, will include high-end engineering, program management and information technology jobs. You can search Lockheed’s current Huntsville openings on its website.
“Part of the consolidation is we’re going to be moving some of our labs that are in the Washington metro area into the Huntsville area,” said JD Hammond, director of missile defense systems.
Smith said Lockheed has informed C2BMC employees in the Baltimore/Washington area about the news. The local division will operate at Lockheed’s facility on Bradford Drive…
