Spotlight: Hughes to Develop Detection Devices for Boeing
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Boeing Co. chose General Motors Corp.’s Hughes division to develop an advanced infrared target detection device for two types of F/A-18 Navy fighter aircraft. The program could be worth more than $900 million to El Segundo-based Hughes Aircraft Co. and is expected to employ up to 200 people. Boeing said it expects to order as many as 574 of the devices, known as Advanced Target Forward-Looking Infrared sensors, or ATFLIR. They are used on the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet.
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