What were the cores u refer to?

Engines & tanks.

the solid fuel cores?

👍

Space x doesn’t do solids, at least yet.

who made them UTC?

They’ve not used them at all that I’m aware of.

so liquid fuel still UTC. I used to liver near them, when they did test blasts at there company you could hear all over the valley.

I was involved in a proposal that was to be a solid to kick the payload way out, but couldn’t get the price right. They ignored needed requirements for success. I wasn’t into submitting numerous change orders to get the price back up to what we needed.

ECO's money makers..go in low ECO the sh** outta it.

CSD part of UTC was near Holloster. They did solids there. After the accidents, the contracts were split among the remaining players.

👍 that's right...I was in s. san jose

I ended up on THAAD after it was moved.

Raytheon👍

I liked the program and the employees that came over with it.

We sent them to Redstone where LM finished the integration.

After the 90's DoD industry consolidations Raytheon was on a buying spree

Raytheon is the big cat in defense armaments.

I working in Cruise Missile

That’s for sure.

then Predator

I know many who have hopped over to Raytheon.

All known quantities. Good companies.

Amazing talent.

never shortage of engineers around.

I kinda miss it, but it will never be like what I hired into again.

Scientist from UCB and Stanford didn't hurt that industry did it.

I gotta relish the great memories and experiences.

I would spend about 2wks/mo on DC, saw the same people different companies on the same flights and airports...it was a hoot.

Leave on monday catch the friday flight back do it again next week.

A good friend of mine did the same (going to DC). He was in business development.

I preferred the shop floor mfg and putting them together.

Playing with parts was fun.

I did a lot of sole source work for many years

Nice!

if you can get it yes...

Still working or did you pack it in?

Consult w/ emerging tech startups. word of mouth....been doing my own thing since 2000. but started consulting in '95.

You could say I packed it in.....I liked working w/ the scientist and engineers on interesting project to me.

Ah. I’ve been out for 2 years now. They wouldn’t lay me off, so I left to take care of a heart condition.

All better now and volunteer at the local PD.