Pentagon’s space partner eyes new frontiers

Secretive Aerospace Corp., which makes sure that contractors‘ work on classified government space projects is being done properly, could find a new niche in the private sector.

W.J. Hennigan

[articles.latimes.com] Aerospace Corp.’s warren of low-rise office buildings in El Segundo offers little clue to the work that goes on behind the double security doors, where thousands of scientists and U.S. Air Force officers toil in secrecy.

The company, which gets almost all of its funding from the Pentagon, is responsible for overseeing many of the nation’s most classified programs, including the development of multibillion-dollar spy satellites and rockets that lift them into space. (more on articles.latimes.com)