Author: Wayne Heilman Special to the Gazette
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Northrop, Boecore celebrate $1 billion milestone
Northrop Grumman Corp. Thursday celebrated subcontracting $1 billion in work since winning the Joint National Integration Center research and development contract in late 2005 to provide information technology, war gaming and simulation services to the Missile Defense Agency. The Virginia-based defense giant and its 28 subcontractors employs more than 1,500 to complete the work, which…
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Convincing win puts Lamborn on track for sixth term in Congress
Doug Lamborn easily won the Republican nomination to a sixth term representing Colorado Springs and the surrounding area in Congress, defeating a political novice who nearly kept him off the ballot. Lamborn led Calandra Vargas, his former unpaid intern, by 25,000 votes, or more than a 2-to-1 margin in unofficial results at 9 p.m. Tuesday.…
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Springs growth spurs expansion of Children’s Hospital project on north side
Children’s Hospital Colorado has increased the sized of the hospital it plans to build in northern Colorado Springs by nearly two-thirds and selected GE Johnson Construction Co. as general contractor for the project. The Aurora-based nonprofit hospital system has expanded the project’s size to 280,000 square feet from the 170,000 square feet it had announced…
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Training gap is a crimp in aerospace contractors’ plans
For decades, employees in the defense contracting industry typically got jobs with the winning bidder when their employer lost a major contract in a process known as “re-badging.” That didn’t happen last year when Lockheed Martin Corp. lost the $700 million contract to maintain and update sensor and software systems for the North American Aerospace…
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Sinton Dairy plant adds long-lasting milk, but longtime name soon will disappear
The Mexican parent company of Sinton Dairy Foods has invested $20 million into its Colorado Springs dairy products plant to produce a new line of milk that lasts 2½ times longer than traditional fresh milk and has allowed the company to recall about 20 of 120 workers laid off last year. Sinton hopes to hire…
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Colorado Springs sales-tax collections up for eighth straight month
Colorado Springs sales tax collections recovered in May – which reflect April sales – rising 5.3 percent from May 2015, the biggest monthly gain since February and the eighth consecutive increase. The $11.5 million in sales tax collected last month was up nearly $450,000 from May 2015, which was a strong month with a nearly…
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Cost of living in Colorado Springs is 7.4 percent below national average
Living costs in the Colorado Springs area fell last year to a three-year low compared with the national average and further declined in the first quarter, according to recent surveys. The local cost of living was 4.7 percent below the national average last year, compared with 2.6 percent in 2014, and was the lowest compared…
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Vehicle registrations decline broadly in El Paso County
The auto market shifted into reverse in May as new vehicle registrations fell 21.8 percent, the biggest drop in nearly five years and the lowest monthly total since February 2015. County residents registered 1,752 new vehicles last month, the second consecutive decline from the same month a year earlier after four consecutive double-digit percentage gains,…
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Colorado Springs’ Go Code winners move on to forming ‘real business’
A Colorado Springs-based team of software developers hopes to complete development and launch a web application by year’s end that will help match employers with potential employees. The team became the first from the Springs to win a $25,000, one-year contract with the state Thursday in Colorado’s annual Go Code competition, which challenges teams to…
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Colorado Springs Airport, TSA work to keep security wait time less than 15 minutes
The Colorado Springs Airport is changing the security checkpoint to keep wait times from growing, even after Frontier Airlines adds flights to Phoenix in June. The change will move Transportation Security Administration personnel who check passenger boarding passes and identification toward the front of the line so breaks don’t develop and result in delays in…