Lockheed Martin announced at the Paris Air Show today that would expand its defense factory in Camden, a $142 million investment that will add 326 jobs.
The Pentagon announced today that Oshkosh Defense of Wisconsin had won a $30 billion, 25-year contract to build a new generation of tactical vehicles for the Army and Marine Corp.
Lockheed Martin promises a livestream broadcast of its launch of the USS Little Rock, a freedom class combat ship designed to operate in inland waters, at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Other topics stole my attention, but a comment is in order on the continuing search for a free lunch by Arkansas Republican politicians. They want magic money to pay for highways and levees while shoveling corporate welfare to private businesses.
A couple of months ago this column predicted that the 2015 legislature would be one of the rare Arkansas assemblies that would claim a place in history, this time for having enacted the Republican Party's entire political strategy, commonly known as God, guns, gays and tax cuts for the well-to-do.
A smiling Gov. Asa Hutchinson presided over bill signings Friday in the governor's conference room. The blitzkrieg special session burnished his early image as a seemingly moderate (well, not crazy) and successful leader.
Ernest Dumas writes this week about the monumental reshaping of constitutional priorities embodied by the actions of the Republican majority legislature this year.