'Building 31,' A Boeing-Owned Lab in Huntington Beach, Is Prepping To Close Its Doors
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But now, "Building 31", which designed rockets, lasers, plane parts and secret Pentagon weapons, is prepping to close its doors. In a post by Wired magazine's Danger Room blog, which broke the story, James Lamont, a former employee, blames the lab's imminent closure on "bureaucracy".
Lamont described the lab to Wired as the people who "make the weapons and one-offs that scare the sh*t out of the other guys." But, it was the "layers of bureaucracy" that doomed Building 31, Lamont says. "Customers who were used to plainly walking in and fixing the U.S. government's issues now had multiple departments and skyrocketing costs to deal with."
Needless to say, the lab's employees -- both past and current -- probably aren't too happy about the closure.
Lamont tells Wired:
The lab, which has been around for 60 years, is slated to shut down in mid-2013."It's a Silicon Valley of strategic space for the U.S. government, and Boeing's crappy leadership ran it into the ground."
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