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Small-town America: The new Bangalore? Northrop Grumman in Helena, Montana

November 28, 2007 /

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Gary Richardson left this boomtown-gone-bust in 1996 for a computer job in Dallas, the big city 60 miles north.

“I didn’t think I would ever come back,” Richardson said recently, “because there were no jobs like mine here.”

Not until this year, when Northrop Grumman Corp. opened an information-technology center in town and began recruiting IT specialists and software engineers.

In a twist on offshoring that Northrop has dubbed onshoring, the global defense and technology corporation has been shipping computer work to small-town America, shunning India’s Bangalore and Mumbai.

By Peter Pae
Los Angeles Times

Full Story: http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071111/BIZ/711110353

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