Defense and aerospace technology manufacturer L3Harris has announced plans for a $1.27 billion expansion of its Orange County site to increase the company’s production of solid rocket motors.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Carrie Chenery, Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade, joined L3Harris representatives and Orange County officials at the Orange County Public Safety Building on Wednesday, April 15, to celebrate the expansion, which is expected to create more than 350 jobs over the next five years.
J. Bryan Nicol, Chair of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, said he believes that the expansion of advanced technology manufacturing facilities like L3Harris has the potential to help localities like Orange County overcome the decline in general manufacturing that has been ongoing in Virginia and across the country. Reuters reported on that decline in January…