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Department of Defense Contracts Keep Some Palm Beach, Fla.-Area Companies Busy.
The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 21--LANTANA, Fla.--Carlos Cavanagh has a professional interest in the war in Iraq.
His company, Control Logistics of Lantana, makes most of the windows used on Army helicopters.
"When they land and throw up all that sand, I wonder how long my work is going to last," Cavanagh says.
Control Logistics is one of more than 100 companies in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties that performed work for the U.S. Department of Defense during the federal government's 2001-02 budget year. Their take: $535 million.
The vast majority of that -- about $496 million -- went to United Technologies Corp., whose Sikorsky and Pratt & Whitney subsidiaries operate in northwestern Palm Beach County. Most of their defense work, however, has shifted north to the parent's Connecticut headquarters as part of an efficiency move two years ago.
The others are a smattering of companies that make parts, do research, provide food and lodging, maintain airplanes and boats or provide sundry services, …
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