Small-town America: The new Bangalore? Northrop Grumman in Helena, Montana
| November 28, 2007 |  View for printing |
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
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