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Saturday, August 04, 2012

Navy missile facility to be built in Cape Canaveral


Cape Canaveral
The state's Space Florida organization will kick in $5 million to rebuild a site at Cape Canaveral that will be used by the Navy to test submarine missile systems, a project that will bring up to 100 jobs to the area in the next three years.

Space Florida announced Thursday that the jobs created by the project will have average annual salaries of $90,000 and that most of the outsourced work will also be done locally.

A 1950s-era missile testing complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station will be refurbished for the new "Strategic Weapons System Ashore" facility, which will conduct all land-based testing of the Navy's submarine-fired missile systems.

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