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Aircraft and industry. Shutdown of the US government: also Lockheed Martin cancels its furlough plan

Bethesda, USA - A similar decision has been taken during the past days by United Technologies Corporation

US' Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that most of the nearly 400,000 civilian Department of Defense (DOD) employees have been deemed essential for national security, and will therefore not be affected by the shutdown of the Government of the United States, which entered into effect in the evening of September 30, 2013 because of the Congress' failure to agree on a federal budget for fiscal year...

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Rome, Italy, 10/08/2013 15:01
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