It has 16,000 employees as of 2007.
It continued to specialize in the overhaul and retrofitting of the whole range of aircraft in the air force inventory.
Total employment in the defense sector reached a peak of 65,000 persons in the mid-1980s, more than 20 percent of the industrial work force.
The United States must consistently and unapologetically stand up for our law-abiding partners, like Israel, and ensure a genuine appreciation of the complex application of law to war.