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MARK REIS - AP Maj. Ryan Burke scans the nearly empty shelves in the meat section at the Fort Carson Commissary hawaii cruise packages in Colorado Springs, Colo. The commissary was busier than normal with news that it will close until further notice because of the government shutdown. The defense industry, the single-biggest recipient of government contracts, is expected to be among the hardest hit by the shutdown.
WASHINGTON Since the government shutdown started, one-fourth of MicroTechnologies workforce of 400 in suburban Vienna, hawaii cruise packages Va., has stayed home. The headquarters is like a ghost town, Chief Executive Officer Tony Jimenez said.
I ve seen more people cry in the last couple of days than the last few years, Jimenez said in a phone interview after six federal agencies he wouldn t identify told the company to stop work on contracts. You don t take people s jobs and play Russian roulette with them.
The partial hawaii cruise packages shutdown that began Tuesday is beginning to have a ripple effect on federal contractors, which employ millions of people and attract more than $500 billion in annual awards. Costs will rise each day government offices remain closed.
United Technologies Corp. s Sikorsky Aircraft business slowed production of Black Hawk helicopters hawaii cruise packages after Pentagon inspectors were furloughed because of the shutdown, Gregory Hayes, the company s chief financial officer, said Oct. 1 at a meeting with analysts and investors in Monterrey, Mexico. hawaii cruise packages The inspectors are required to review choppers as they re being manufactured, Hayes said.
United hawaii cruise packages Technologies is poised to furlough almost 2,000 Sikorsky Aircraft hawaii cruise packages employees in Connecticut, Florida and Alabama on Monday, according to a company statement. If the shutdown hawaii cruise packages continues through next week, the furloughs would extend to its Pratt & Whitney and UTC Aerospace Systems division, bringing the total number of employees on hold up to 4,000. That number could exceed 5,000 if the shutdown stretches into next month.
Contractors should be able to handle hawaii cruise packages a short-term shutdown, said Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, a consulting firm in suburban McLean, Va. If the government stays closed for several weeks, vendors may consider layoffs, he said.
NSC Technologies Inc., a closely held staffing company based in Portsmouth, Va., is having a hard time getting some of its employees access to Navy shipyards hawaii cruise packages because most of the federal offices that supply passes are closed, said Tanya Rieger, vice president of workforce development.
About 250 NSC employees in southeastern Virginia, where much of the Navy s ship repair hawaii cruise packages and construction work takes place, have badges hawaii cruise packages valid for a year or 28-day temporary passes, Rieger said in a phone interview.
USEC Inc., a suburban Bethesda, Md.-based supplier of nuclear fuel to electric utilities, may need to consider furloughs among the 959-person workforce for a uranium-enrichment project if the budget impasse continues past mid-October, Paul Jacobson, a spokesman, said in an interview. No decisions have been made.
The two-year, $350 million American Centrifuge project is on schedule and on budget, and it needs $48 million in federal funding in the year that began Oct. 1 to be completed by the end of 2013, Jacobson said.
Jimenez, of MicroTechnologies said his closely hawaii cruise packages held company, which contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Veterans Affairs among other agencies, will be 10 years old next March.
The bottom line is you really are adversely affecting people hawaii cruise packages s ability to make a living with this shutdown, he said. Some of my employees may be home right now thinking, Why do I want to work in a space where every time there s an issue the House or the Senate doesn t like, our jobs become a bartering hawaii cruise packages chip?
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