6 months ago: "AFA WARFARE SYMPOSIUM — Northrop Grumman has locked up two international customers for its new electronic warfare (EW) suite for the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the start of what the company hopes will be a lucrative expansion of its system abroad with US funding uncertain, an executive tells Breaking Defense."
Looks like AIDEWS is losing steam to Northrop Grumman's' EW system. IDECM will be next. Without the F-16 and the F-18, LHX Clifton is an empty building. Looks like the only way they'll make money from that location is to shudder it and sell it. The real-estate alone is worth over $30 million. This locations' skill set was always its' advantage but, DEI has destroyed that. The talent is gone. All that remains is an unskilled, workforce with a feckless leadership. 77 River Road has become an albatross around the neck of a struggling company.
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I love working for Northrop!!
Clifton has no manufacturing engineers. they are wannabes who bullsh-tted their way into jobs without a degree or so much as spending one day in college.
Some talent has been long gone, some come back as consultants. I've heard internally it is mostly policies from FL who make this place lose its grounds. Example, right now all ME drawings need to go through FL, incurring a heavy cost for our departments.
What's going to happen nobody knows, but because things don't look good now doesn't mean the place is bankrupt and going out of business faster than falling off a cliff.
My motto was always striving for better... And although only newcomers get a good raise in salary, much more than double of those who are here, most don't deserve it, leaves us within a short amount of time. To me that is mostly absurd, as a young engineer should work for a smaller company and really build themselves there before L3Harris. The workforce should be the middle aged years, people in their late 30s, early 50s who can push the company forward and give strength to a new generation. Going for the trying engineers is... a complete mistake as these come to us with top grades and what do we ask them to do? Requirements! Well ... They want to save the world and be CEOs the next day which doesn't happen.
Either the newcomers are going to get a slap in the face or the company. Which one would it be?
"Those with talent left long ago."
Or there are those of us who could retire, nut are taking their money and hoping LHX goes up in flames.
Those with talent left long ago.
Waiting for teflon Dave to turn the lights out and lock the gates in Waco.🍿🍺
The talent is still there, but barely hanging on by a thread. If the c suite would stop focusing on Ready for Program management cohorts and focus on technical development then maybe we stand a chance. When the OGs retire or are forced with early retirement packages we’re s c r e w e d. The name of this place doesn’t even make it on the news when hoodrats from Newark crash through the fence with a stolen car.
The writing has been on the walls of Clifton for a long time. (I'm not talking about that ridiculous, censored white board outside the BTR either). RIFs this past April. Looks like more in October. There will be no coat tails for the fake MEs to ride on.
But, don't worry. I'm sure Home Depot will hire you back.