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Business/Financial

Deloitte Study Provides Granularity On A&D Impact On Nation’s Economy

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

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In the face of hundreds of billions of dollars in defense budget cuts that would begin next year if Congress can’t agree on longer-term budget plans to whittle the national deficit, the consulting firm Deloitte yesterday issued a new study that details the impacts of the aerospace and defense industry have at the national and state levels. The report was commissioned by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), which last year began sounding warnings to national leaders about the devastating impact…

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