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BAE To Build $100 Million Facility In Iowa For Navigation And Sensor Business

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BAE To Build $100 Million Facility In Iowa For Navigation And Sensor Business
U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery train on firing points with an M119 Howitzer outside Camp Liberty in Iraq on Dec. 23, 2005. BAE's military GPS products include the NavStorm+GPS receiver used on precision-guided artillery and bombs. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin L. Moses Sr., U.S. Army. (Released)

BAE Systems on Thursday said it is investing more than $100 million in a new “state-of-the-art facility” to house its Iowa-based military GPS business it acquired from Raytheon Technologies [RTX] in July, with plans to open the facility in 2022. The 278,000 square foot building in Cedar Rapids will include a build-to-suit factory and research and development center, several hundred offices, workstations and flexible work space, and classified and unclassified labs. The facility can also accommodate the addition of 50,000…

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