Boeing Co. last week broke ground on a new facility in Oklahoma City.
The six-story, 320,000-square-foot facility will support Boeing's B-1 program and its C-130 avionics modernization program, both of which are being relocated from Long Beach, Calif.
Gardner Tanenbaum Group, an Oklahoma City-based commercial real estate company, is designing and building the new facility on the site of an existing Boeing building. Boeing is leasing both facilities.
Operated by Boeing's Global Services & Support division, a unit of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, the Oklahoma City site focuses on engineering, contractor logistics services and field support.
Boeing employs approximately 700 people at the site as well as nearby Tinker Air Force Base.
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Former Senior Editor Josh Cable covered innovation issues -- including trends and best practices in R&D, process improvement and product development. He also reported on the best practices of the most successful companies and executives in the world of transportation manufacturing, which encompasses the aerospace, automotive, rail and shipbuilding sectors.
Josh also led the IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame, IW’s annual tribute to the most influential executives and thought leaders in U.S. manufacturing history.
Before joining IndustryWeek, Josh was the editor-in-chief of Penton Media’s Government Product News and Government Procurement. He also was an award-winning beat reporter for several small newspapers in Northeast Ohio.
Josh received his BFA in creative writing from Bowling Green University, and continued his professional development through course-work at Ohio University and Cuyahoga Community College.
A lifelong resident of the Buckeye State, Josh currently lives in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. When the weather cooperates, you’ll find him riding his bike to work, exercising his green thumb in the backyard or playing ultimate Frisbee.