Maryland defense contractor Northrup Grumman says it is cutting 500 jobs, some in Connecticut, because of a slowdown in defense spending, The Associated Press reports.
Company spokesman Jack Martin Jr. said the cuts, mostly in the Baltimore area, at the Linthicum, Md.-based Electronic Systems division will be made by the end of May through buyouts and, if necessary, layoffs.
Northrup has an engineering and manufacturing facility for surveillance radar systems in Norwalk, with about 400 employees. Martin declined to break out the number of Connecticut workers affected.
The division employs about 8,300 in the Baltimore region, primarily in Linthicum with smaller operations in Annapolis, Sykesville and Elkridge. Martin says nearly 150 workers were laid off from the company’s offices in Linthicum and Annapolis last June.
The company says the vast majority of the latest cuts will be in the Baltimore area, and the rest will be made in Illinois, Virginia, Connecticut, Florida and Alabama.
