Raytheon Space ground-breaks

JACKSON, Miss. - Gov. Phil Bryant and Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems' officials ribbon-cut the company’s new 20,000-square-foot Far Field Test Facility in Forest, Miss. The facility will created 150 new jobs. The expansion at Raytheon’s Forest Consolidated Manufacturing Center was announced in Noveber 2013 in conjunction with Veteran’s Day and the facility’s 30th anniversary. (Source: Mississippi Development Authority 04/08/15)