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Report: Lockheed inflates F-35 program job numbers
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/01/report-lockheed-inflates-f35-program-job-numbers
Report: Lockheed inflates F-35 program job numbers
By W.J. Hennigan | Los Angeles Times
McClatchy/Tribune
© January 23, 2014
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s claims that the development and construction of the nearly $400 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will sustain 125,000 jobs in 46 states is “greatly exaggerated,” according to a new report by a research center.
The Center for International Policy, a Washington nonprofit, released a report, “Promising the Sky: Pork Barrel Politics and the F-35 Combat Aircraft,” that says the number of program-related jobs cited by Lockheed is “roughly double” what it will actually create.
Lockheed, the world’s largest defense contractor, said that 32,500 direct jobs and 92,500 indirect jobs will be created by the F-35.
“The ratio of direct jobs to total jobs in the Lockheed Martin estimate far exceeds the ratio suggested by other studies in the field,” said William D. Hartung, the study’s author and a frequent Pentagon critic.
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