About 360 defense industry jobs will leave Fort Wayne within the next 12 months, as Harris Corp. transfers work to its operation in Rochester, New York. Job cuts will begin in the fall, workers were told today.
Harris acquired Exelis, the former defense unit of ITT Corp., for about $4.8 billion earlier this year. The affected workers make Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems, or SINCGARS.
The radios allow frontline troops to coordinate communications into a network rather than routing calls singly up the chain of command. The company has built more than 550,000 SINCGARS.
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