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31st CD: An Example of Wasted Defense Spending

  Why Northrop Grumman has a Missle Engineering Center in San Bernardino is anybody's guess.  Before Norton Air Force Base was decommissioned in 1994, Northrup Grumman worked on and tested missle design programs. It still operates hangars there. Northrup Grumman says  : "The Missile Engineering Center serves as a vital proving ground for missile technology development and provides support to several key government missile programs. The center's flagship programs include the ICBM Minuteman III modernization program where Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor responsible for maintaining, sustaining and modernizing the nation's fleet of Minuteman III missiles; and the Kinetic Energy Interceptor program – a critical boost/ascent or midcourse-phase missile defense program where Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor developing and testing this capability." I have never seen a missle launch from the former Air Force b...