Boeing Contract Win Could Bring Florida Jobs
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
By: Tom Parkinson

Boeing is promising to bring nearly two thousand jobs to Florida if it wins a military contract to build a new fleet of aerial refueling tankers. The company is releasing new information about the project's potential economic impact.

Boeing spokesman Bill Barksdale says the contract could provide a major boost for the company’s Florida contractors.

“ We are projecting 19 hundred total jobs in the state of Florida and the annual estimated economic impact, if we would be selected for this contract, would be about 95 million dollars.”

Boeing’s chief rival in the bidding race had been a partnership between Northrop-Grumman and European based Airbus. Earlier this month Northrop dropped out of the competition but the French parent company of Airbus says it still wants to be considered.

Boeing is not saying where in Florida the new workers would be based.  Northrop-Grumman had promised 500 new jobs at its Melbourne facility if it had won the 35-billion-dollar contract.

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