Boeing's decision to lower costs and increase efficiency in its defense operations by shifting work at its huge Wichita facility to elsewhere in its network may well be the first of many plant closures this year as U.S. military spend- ing dries up. Boeing says it lacks sufficient work to justify retaining nearly 2 million sq. ft. of floor space and 97 buildings that comprise its Defense, Space & Security (BDS) facility in Wichita, so it . will close all of them by the end of 2013. What viable work remains there will be shifted to company facilities in San Antonio, Oklahoma City and Seattle's Puget Sound region, says Vice President Mark Bass. How many of the factory's 2,160 jobs may be preserved by shifts to those locations is unclear.
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