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Lockheed May Allocate Work among Foreign and Fort Worth, Texas, Plants.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003

By Katie Fairbank, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 19--PARIS--It's going to get very touchy when Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. starts hashing out how it will share the work with its foreign partners on the Joint Strike Fighter F-35.

It's unclear how much of the work will be done overseas, but there's talk at this week's Paris Air Show that some of the final assembly will be done outside of Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth plant.

If that happens, Lockheed Martin won't need as many of its Fort Worth employees working on the new fighter. The company has assigned 2,600 workers to the project, with plans to switch more of the 15,700 employees in Fort Worth to the Joint Strike Fighter program once the plane...

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