BAE wary as fighter jet project hits turbulence

Gina McLaughlin, floor manager at one of the manufacturing labs at BAE Systems on Spit Brook Road in Nashua, is all business as she prepares to take a reporter into an inner sanctum of a high-security production area.

"No pencils, no cell phones, no cameras," she says as we don smocks and walk across a sticky floor surface designed to remove particles from the soles of our shoes.

The security doors open near a row of workers focused on parts that will eventually find their way into the newest generation of fighter aircraft being built for the U.S. military and its allies as part of the biggest Pentagon project in history.

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