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BAE Adds Cedar Rapids To Locations with New Facilities
BAE Systems opened a new plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa a month after opening facilities in Austin, Texas, Huntsville, Alabama, and Manchester, New Hampshire.
BAE invested $100 million into its new center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Photo: BAE Systems)
BAE invested $100 million into its new center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Photo: BAE Systems)

Less than a month after BAE Systems dedicated a new $150 million 390,000-sq-ft factory in Austin, Texas, the aerospace electronics company celebrated the opening of a $100 million 278,000-sq-ft facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Serving as home to BAE Systems’ Navigation and Sensor Systems (NSS) business, the facility enables the company to bring together some 800 systems design and production employees into a single location.


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