Beginning in the early 1940 ’ second, when General Electric began defense work operations hera in Syracuse during World War II, to the production of television tubes, to its becoming Lockheed Martin, the earth ’ s largest defense contractor, here is an historic timeline of the Electronics Parkway plant .
A transistor radio prototype was developed by General Electric in Salina and built in 1953. It was unveiled in New York in 1954. Lockheed MartinLockheed Martin 1942 : General Electric begins defense shape operations in Syracuse sphere. August 1944 : The General Electric Co. announces it will build a $ 7 million research and manufacture plant in Salina. The building complex is named Electronics Park. August 1945 : ground is broken for Electronics Park. April 1947 : General Electric ’ second vector division moves from Thompson Road to Electronics Park, which becomes the center for its electronics occupation. early work included build engines for military aircraft and ships, and vacuum tubes and radar systems. 1949 : production of television sets, with black-and-white picture tubes, begins at GE ‘s Electronics Park plant. 1950 : The year marks the beginning of a ten of GE development of discolor television visualize tubes for the consumer market. April 1953 : GE workers strike, accusing the party of moving work elsewhere. 1965 : production of a small-screen color tube starts at Electronics Park. 1966 : use at GE in Syracuse peaks at 17,000. October 1969 : 6,000 GE workers begin a come to of 101 days in what will be the longest strike in company history .
In an dateless General Electric promotion photograph, a technician in a lab coat in Building 5 supervises the testing of antennas on cathode-ray television sets built at the Electronics Parkway campus. Building 3 in the GE building complex was the Electronics Laboratory, which at one fourth dimension focused on research in the production of televisions. A $ 28 million grant will be used to renovate and equip the build up for research in nanotechnology. 1970 : black-and-white picture tube production ends. 1972 : GE ‘s local employment degree drops to 7,500. 1985 : The company announces it is shutting down its television picture tube operations in Syracuse, cutting 790 jobs. June 1986 : GE buys RCA for $ 6.4 billion. November 1986 : GE announces the closure of the company ’ second picture pipe plant scheduled for May 1987. GE ’ mho televisions and movie metro would be made by RCA. July 1987 : General Electric Co. ’ s Radar Systems Department in Syracuse wins a $ 62.4 million contract to modernize Iceland ’ s radar system. GE ’ mho defense and inquiry operations employ approximately 5,300. July 1987 : General Electric Co. announces it will sell all its electronic consumer goods division to Thomson S.A., an electronics company owned by the french government, included in the sale was the consumer electronic businesses of RCA. October 1987 : GE wins a $ 79.1 million Navy contract to build anti-submarine sonar equipment. December 1987 : GE ‘s Undersea Systems Department is awarded a $ 13.62 million Navy contract, separate of a larger $ 1.5 billion shrink, to develop see systems for the Seawolf submarines. A week late, a $ 95.4 million contract for 14 sonar systems is total. January 1988 : The hand between General Electric and Thomson S.A. is completed. August 1989 : The Defense Department limits the sale of critical military hardware by GE ’ sulfur Syracuse operation for six months, saying it shuffle products destined for foreign governments with those sent to U.S. Navy or Air Force .
General Electric announces the elimination of 870 local jobs. Government cuts in military spend following the end of the Cold War are to blame. Aerial photograph, Sept. 28, 1990. David Lassman | dlassman @ syracuse.com April 1990 : GE says dwindle defense work will cut 870 jobs from Syracuse. The company employs 6,200 people locally. September 1990 : General Electric Co. has closely 6,000 workers in three locations in the Syracuse area. December 1990 : GE announces it is making Syracuse its headquarter for its new combined sonar and radar divisions, Ocean & Radar Systems. The radar clientele had been run from Moorestown, N.J. and the sonar commercial enterprise in Syracuse. January 1991 : GE in Syracuse gets a $ 262 million episode on its biggest local abridge : develop and producing the AN/BSY-2 fight system for the Seawolf submarines. roughly 5,000 people are employed by GE in Central New York. February 1991 : GE in Syracuse and three early defense industry firms recapture a $ 138 million Navy abridge to supply anti-submarine-warfare combat systems for four Navy destroyers. April 1991 : The Defense Department awards a $ 28 million contract to GE, including its Syracuse division, to build 10 sign data-processing units for submarines. May 1991 : General Electric Co. announces it will move most of its employees out of the Court Street plant in DeWitt to either Electronics Park or Farrell Road. January 1992 : General Electric Co. in Syracuse took command over GE in Utica. GE employs about 1,700 in Utica and about 4,500 in Syracuse. May 1992 : GE announces it will close its Farrell Road plant in Geddes by the end of the year or early future class. It had started operating in Geddes in 1960. July 1992 : GE wins contracts deserving $ 286 million from the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps. The Navy contract is for the submarine fight system ; the Marine contract is to upgrade an air-defense radar. October 1992 : GE ’ s Electronics Park unit announces it will sell $ 78 million worth of radars to Germany. besides, GE in Electronics Park lands two contracts : one is for $ 21.8 million to monitor and maintain 29 radar sites for the U.S. Navy in Alaska and northern Canada, the other is for $ 585,112 for spare part parts for U.S. Marine Corps land-based radars. Nov. 23, 1992 : Bethesda, Md.-based Martin Marietta Corp. announces it will buy GE ‘s aerospace division for $ 30.5 billion April 2, 1993 : The cope between Martin Marietta and GE closes, creating the world ‘s largest defense contractor. The sale affects 37,700 GE employees, including 3,400 in Salina and 1,650 in Utica. June 1993 : Martin Marietta wins a $ 30 million contract to build a long-range land-based air-defense radar unit for Kuwait .
Nancy Manion, is an assembler in the E2C plant at Lockheed Martin. She is assembling components for airborne radar in 1999. September 1993 : The giant star General Electric sign that faced the New York State Thruway at Electronics Park in Salina is removed and not replaced. The logo was 24 feet in diameter and the letters “ GE ” were 12 feet high and had been there since 1955. besides removed and donated to the Onondaga Historical Association Museum was the GE sign facing Electronic Parkway from the company ’ s Building No. 2. Sept. 30, 1993 : Martin Marietta announces it is keeping the Salina plant. November 1993 : A defense-spending bill includes $ 656 million for projects at Martin Marietta in Salina. January 1994 : Martin Marietta Corp. stops production of projection display products at its plant on Electronics Parkway. Aug. 30, 1994 : Martin Marietta Corp announces it will merge with Lockheed Corp in a $ 10 billion deal, creating the earth ‘s largest space and defensive structure company .
JIM GALLOWAY AND LARRY DUNNING AT LOCKHEED MARTIN LIFT A TB-16 TOWED ACOUSTIC ARRAY CABLE FROM BUOYANCY TEST TANK. THE CABLE RUNS IN BACK OF SUBMARINES TO HEAR STUFF. PHOTO TAKEN IN 1995. February 1995 : Martin Marietta Corp. is awarded a $ 50 million U.S. Naval Sea Command contract covering four years. March 15, 1995 : Stockholders approve $ 10 billion union of Martin Marietta and Lockheed. The company will be Lockheed Martin Corp. June 1995 : Lockheed Martin designates its Ocean, Radar & Sensor Systems division at Electronics Park as Lockheed ‘s global center for ground-based radar work. The defense industry elephantine besides announces it is closing its Utica operation by 1998. Lockheed Martin has 1,850 employees here October 1995 : The Syracuse Ocean, Radar & Sensor Systems plant will build part of a new air defense radar system for the Army. February 1996 : The U.S. Navy announces that it has awarded a $ 96.5 million contract to build an subaqueous combat system to Lockheed Martin Corp. It is a major win for Electronics Park, which won the sign over rival Westinghouse Electric Corp. April 1996 : Lockheed Martin merges with equal Loral Corp. on April 22 .
Lockheed Martin employees work on components for an Advanced Airborn Surveillance Radar in April 1997. October 1996 : The Metropolitan Development Association and Lockheed Martin announce the formal transfer of possession of Electronics Park to the state of matter, which gave the company $ 6 million. The state will lease four buildings back to Lockheed Martin for up to 99 years. The respite of the property is leased for 30 years to Electronics Park Limited Liability Corp, an entity created by the Metropolitan Development Foundation which will develop, cope and market the property. Lockheed Martin presently employs 2,100 in the area. April 1998 : Lockheed Martin employs 2,260 on its Electronics Park campus .
Lockheed Martin employee Richard O’Brien of Fulton cleans the solder on a component for an Advanced Airborn Surveillance Radar. January 2000 : Lockheed Martin Corp. ’ second Ocean, Radar & Sensor Systems Division becomes Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems – syracuse. October 2000 : Lockheed Martin Corp. begins a $ 520,000 plan to upgrade its offices at its Electronics Park campus. December 2000 : Lockheed Martin Corp wins two Naval contracts totaling $ 61 million to expand the Navy ’ s submarine war capabilities and a $ 54.2 million for radar for the Republic of Korea. November 2001 : Lockheed Martin Corp. steps up its security at Electronics Park in reaction to the September terrorist attacks by adding gates and security guards. December 2001 : Lockheed Martin Corp. is awarded a $ 130 million Navy sign to further develop a system for mine detection.
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February 2002 : Lockheed Martin Corp. signs a $ 50 million shrink with Egypt to provide a search and rescue system for the Gulf of Suez. Lockheed Martin has 2,300 people employed at its Electronics Park campus .
valet at right field is Tim Kinsella, director. of strategic planning/ marine traffic management at Lockheed Martin, explaining the system they developed for Turket to Turky Minister of Maritime Transportation, Dr. Ramazan Mirzaoglu. Standing at left behind Mirzaoglu is HŸcum Tulgar, general director Coastal Safety & Salvage Administration, Turkey. August 2003 : Lockheed Martin Corp. is awarded a $ 143.5 million contract for the adjacent coevals of radars for the Navy ’ s E-2C Hawkeye patrol plane. December 2004 : Lockheed Martin says it will hire 500 engineers in 2005 to fill positions for a diverseness of defense and other programs on its Salina campus. Lockheed Martin ’ s president of the united states of radar systems asked the community for avail in finding engineers. “ We ’ re asking people in central New York to spread the news about the want for talent, ” said President Joe Trench. “ There ’ mho great opportunities back here at home in Syracuse. ” April 2008 : Lockheed Martin Corp. which has spent $ 50 million over three years to renovate its buildings at Electronics Business Park, announces plans to invest $ 11 million on renovations and construction of a seven-story addition to house a highly sophisticated chamber to test radars. July 2008 : Lockheed Martin Corp. breaks flat coat for the $ 15 million, 9,600-square-foot radar test facility in Salina .
Lockheed Martin announces they are set to create hundreds of new jobs at their plant in the town of Salina on Dec. 17, 2004. Joe Trench ( far left ), president of Lockheed Martin radar systems and Brian Kent ( army for the liberation of rwanda correct ), director of quality admissions achiever lead a plant enlistment for Rep. James Walsh, Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen Hillary Clinton ( in center field L-R ). September 2008 : Lockheed Martin Corp. receives a $ 152 million shrink option from the Navy for 12 more radars. May 2009 : The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. in Salina a $ 24.8 million abridge to develop a prototype for the following coevals of three-dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar. September 2009 : The U.S. Navy Sea Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors, in Salina, a $ 15.2 million contract to make five TB-29A Thin Line Towed Arrays. October 2009 : The Navy awarded a $ 9.9 million preliminary plan abridge to Lockheed Martin for a fresh electronic war system .
Lockheed Martin implant in Liverpool, N.Y., Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. Kevin Rivoli | krivoli @ syracuse.com January 2010 : Lockheed Martin announced plans to cut 1,200 jobs nationally to lower costs. Some would be cut at the Salina campus which employed about 2,350. January 2010 : The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin ’ s MS2 Division in Salina a shrink for $ 8.8 million to produce kits to upgrade ships ’ combat systems. March 2010 : Lockheed Martin ’ s Salina campus receives a narrow for $ 171.8 million to begin production of early warning radar systems carried on the U.S. Navy ’ s Advanced Hawkeye patrol planes. April 2010 : Lockheed Martin Corp. in Salina won a multi-million dollar contract to build a defense radar for England that would see through the hindrance caused by wind farms. Lockheed would be a subcontractor for Serco Group PLC, a Virginia ship’s company. April 2010 : Lockheed Martin Corp. in Salina lays off 53. June 17, 2010 : Lockheed Martin Corp., opened a $ 16 million radar screen adeptness on its Electronic Parkway campus. July 2010 : The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. in Salina a $ 51 million contract for the next-generation of electronic war systems for open ships. August 2010 : The beginning of Lockheed Martin ’ s newest airborne early admonitory radar systems, developed and built in Salina, had been delivered to the Navy in Norfolk. Va. August 2010 : The Navy awarded a condense change worth $ 155 million to Lockheed Martin for a sonar system. The exercise would be done in Manassas, Va. and Syracuse. December 2010 : Lockheed Martin reached a $ 10.3 million settlement with the federal government to resolve claims that the company ’ second Georgia class inflated rates used to price contracts for the Air Force and Navy. December 2010 : The italian shipbuilder Fancantieri and Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $ 4 billion contract to build10 littoral combat ships for the U.S. Navy .
Don Smith, an assembler technician, assembles a telegram rule component onto the central enclosure for an AN/TPS-77 long-range radar in 2006 at Lockheed Martin that is exported all over the global. January 2011 : Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded $ 249 million in contracts for a plant in Oswego to keep the U.S. Navy ’ s aging fleet of H-60 helicopters modernized. February 2011 : Lockheed Martin ’ south Mission Systems and Sensors plant in Salina won a $ 48.4 million contract to continue building an submarine war arrangement for the Navy. February 2011 : The Department of Defense cut the MEADS project ( Mediium Extended Air Defense System ) which was being developed and tested in Salina, but funds remain for three more years of design and development sour. April 2011 : The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors in Liverpool $ 14,785,866 to continue engineering and technical work on a conformal array submarine sonar device. May 2011 : Lockheed Martin lays off 89 employees from its Salina operation. August 2011 The Air Force exercised an option for more than $ 30 million more work on long-range radars from Lockheed Martin Corp. in Salina. September 2011 Lockheed Martin lays off 85 production workers in Salina .
MEADS MFCR Emplacement with A & G Paul SalcePaul Salce December 2011 : Congress agreed to budget $ 390 million for MEADS. March 2012 : Lockheed Martin in Salina lands a contract that could be deserving $ 881 million over the next three years. The Army announced that it would buy to 51 Firefinder radar units along with education and testing. While this did not mean any extra hire for the Salina plant it would provide “ steady work ” for its current workers. May 2012 : The largest condense in Lockheed Martin history was in hazard after the House Armed Services Committee approved a $ 642 billion annual defense bill that struck a budget-cutting botch to the Central New York implant, then the one-seventh largest employer in the area. The committee rejected the Pentagon ’ s $ 400.8 million budget request for the MEADS projectile defense plan, which supported 235 jobs at the Electronics Park plant. July 2012 : Lockheed Martin issued layoffs to 166 workers at its Salina plant. Officials say the notices had nothing to do with the uncertainty around the MEADS project. August 2012 : Lockheed Martin celebrates its centennial as a company and its seventieth anniversary in the Syracuse sphere. The ship’s company ’ s 1,900 local employees were given “ centennial cookies ” and were asked to write words of support to american soldiers on company distributed postcards. December 2012 : Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand launch last-ditch efforts to save the MEADS defense system after it was left out of the $ 631 billion National Defense Authorization Act after some called the broadcast “ wasteful. ”. The project had been the single largest radar narrow in the Salina ’ s plant ’ s history. March 2013 : The MEADS program is saved after a charge passes through the House of Representatives. It credibly saved 235 local jobs. April 2013 : military leaders from the Pentagon, Italy and Germany restfully visited Central New York to witness a classify test of the MEADS missile defense system. As partially of the test, a little plane and a model tactical ballistic projectile were detected and tracked by the system. It was deemed a success. August 2013 : Lockheed Martin said it would lay off 114 employees from its Salina implant, dropping its work force to 1,700 employees, the lowest it had been in about 20 years. The company thrived during the post-9/11 years with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Lockheed Martin plant in Liverpool, N.Y., Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. Kevin Rivoli | krivoli @ syracuse.com September 2013 : Lockheed unveiled its newly long-range atmosphere surveillance radar, a 20-foot-tall green giant that spins 360 degrees to detect, identify and track aircraft, missiles and other aeriform threats. The cubic Expeditionary Long-Range Radar, or 3DELRR ( Three-Dealer ) was conceived, engineered and built over the past 10 years at Lockheed Martin ‘s campus at Electronics Park in Salina. Seen as one the local plant ’ s “ keys to the future, ” it was shown at the nation ’ sulfur largest gather of U.S. Air Force administration and personnel in Washington. October 2013 : A Lockheed document reviewed by The Post-Standard confirmed that the company was considering a consolidation plan that would have closed the plant at Electronics Park in Syracuse ‘s northerly suburbs and transferred its 1,700 workers to early locations. A draft plan to shut down Central New York ‘s largest for-profit employer was on track to be finalized in the next two weeks, according to three sources conversant with the proposal. Those plans were then tabled by Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Officer Marillyn Hewson under pressure from U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer. Schumer would say only that Hewson told him the Salina plant will not be closed or see mass caper losses in the next year, and that there are no existing plans to implement the cuts in the future. The senator said he was pleased with the promise. “ The loss of Lockheed Martin to Central New York would be devastating, ” Schumer said. “ not merely is it one of our largest and best-paying employers in the region, but the number of jobs related to it is huge. ” Lockheed Martin ‘s privy business design to close its plant in suburban Syracuse assumed the company would pay at least $ 14.4 million in penalties for defaulting on a 30-year rent with the state. Lockheed executives besides anticipated paying $ 12.4 million to mothball its buildings at Electronics Park in Salina in the initial four years after closing December 2013 : After a meeting with Lockheed Martin Chairman and CEO Marillyn Hewson, Sen. Charles Schumer is a firm performer that was well-positioned to stay in business for the foreseeable future. June 2015 : In a “ great day ” for Lockheed, Germany selected MEADS as its future missile defense system in a cover that is expected to provide a promote to the company and its suburban Syracuse plant. The MEADS project is the largest of the Lockheed implant, accounting for a $ 625 million partake over nine years. July 2015 : For the irregular time in less than a year, the U.S. Navy has selected Syracuse ’ s Lockheed Martin implant to produce electronic war defenses for its ships. October 2015 : Latvia became the first area to deploy a fresh generation of publicize defense mechanism radars made by Lockheed Martin in Salina. The Ministry of Defense purchased three TPS-77 Multi-Role Radars that can be mounted on a truck or used at fixate military sites. January 2016 : Lockheed Martin plans to hire 100 new employees for its plant in suburban Syracuse, ending a four-year period during which Lockheed ’ s local payroll declined from 2,300 employees to about 1,600. May 2016 : Lockheed Martin ’ south plant in suburban Syracuse was awarded a $ 45 million compress by the U.S. Navy and Japan to provide sonar systems for anti-submarine war. July 2016 : Lockheed Martin announces it will lay off 69 workers at two Upstate New York, in Salina and Oswego, as part of a larger go to trim 350 jobs in its Mission Systems and Training business unit of measurement .
A display of the Q-53 radar organization made by Lockheed Martin Corp. in Salina, NY. The system scans the skies to pinpoint the reservoir of enemy rockets, mortars and artillery.SYR January 2017 : The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin in Syracuse a contract to develop a modern electronic war system for its MH-60 Seahawk helicopters to use in safeguarding ships against missile attacks. April 2017 : The U.S. Army awards Lockheed Martin ’ sulfur plant in suburban Syracuse one of the individual largest contracts in its history, a conduct worth up to $ 1.58 billion for radars that track incoming rocket, mortar and artillery fire. June 2017 : The U.S Navy and Japan will buy an extra $ 42 million deserving of submarine-hunting sonar system from Lockheed Martin ’ randomness plant in suburban Syracuse. February 2018 : The U.S. Navy has selected Lockheed Martin ’ second plant in suburban Syracuse to supply an extra two sonar arrangement for its ships and refer equipment valued at about $ 51 million. March 2018 : Lockheed Martin says it will probable add a significant number of jobs to its implant in Salina after reaching a deal on a joint speculation to supply Germany with an air travel and missile system deserving about $ 4.9 billion. reservoir : The Post-Standard archives READ MORE Meet the Rev. Samuel Calthrop : a man who did everything 1959 : traffic reverses on Clinton and Warren Streets create confusion This have is a region of CNY Nostalgia, a section on syracuse.com. Send your ideas and curiosities to Johnathan Croyle at jcroyle @ syracuse.com or call 315-427-3958.
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