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LOS ANGELES - Northrop Grumman Corp. will lay off 750 workers as the aerospace company consolidates administrative staffs at two units in Southern California, company officials said Wednesday.
The announcement comes two months after Los-Angeles-based Northrop merged its aircraft manufacturing unit in El Segundo with a unit in Redondo Beach that makes satellites. The cuts represent about 3 percent of the 24,000 people who work in the two units.
The company is the second-largest U.S. military contractor with more than 120,000 employees worldwide.
The company's work force will likely expand soon because the combined unit has more than 850 open positions for skilled, technical jobs in engineering and manufacturing, said Northrop spokesman Dan McClain.
Northrop said the exact number of layoffs depends on how many people voluntarily leave the company. Laid-off workers will be notified in April.
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