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Raytheon Missile Systems President Taylor Lawrence discusses the company's long history and bright future in Tucson | |
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Tucson’s clear blue skies and dry climate have been attracting aerospace related attention since the early 1900s. The aerospace industry is a key employer in the Tucson region and is considered one of the community’s stronger private sector economic industries.
The aerospace industry represents defense and space-related manufacturing, research and development, industrial high-tech fields, assembly, distribution and warehousing. It also includes firms that maintain and rehabilitate the nation’s commercial aircraft fleet.
Tucson’s highly concentrated aerospace product and parts manufacturing sector has an 8.35 location quotient (source: economy.com), a ratio calculated to compare a region’s industrial activity level to the rest of the United States. The location quotient means Tucson is 8.35 times more concentrated in the aerospace product and parts manufacturing industry than the average of all metropolitan statistical areas across the country.
 Click here for a map of aerospace employers in Southern Arizona.
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aerospace brochure.
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