BAE Systems Hosts Second to None Rally

More than 300 local employees gathered at BAE Systems’ facility in York, Pa., November 21 for the first Second to None rally supporting the aerospace and defense industry. In the shadow of the budget supercommittee’s failure to reach an agreement to avoid sequestration cuts, events like these to draw attention to our industry’s contribution to our national and economic security are even more important.

Dignitaries at the event included Rep. Todd Platts (R-Pa.), AIA President and CEO Marion C. Blakey and BAE Systems Senior Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Robert Murphy.

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What Our Leaders Are Saying

We will have no American access to, and return from, low Earth orbit and the International Space Station for an unpredictable length of time in the future. For a country that has invested so much for so long to achieve a leadership position in space exploration and exploitation, this condition is viewed by many as lamentably embarrassing and unacceptable.

— Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong

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Know the Facts

The U.S. has no new manned military aircraft in design—the first time that has happened in 100 years.

Russia and China are both developing fifth generation stealth fighter jets (the Sukhoi T-50 and Chengdu J-20) to rival the most advanced U.S. fighters.

NASA recently put off a key weather satellite launch, risking the first “coverage gap” in our forecast abilities since the 1960s.

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