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McDonnell Douglas said Monday that it will split up its astronautics company, which includes its 8,200-employee facility in Huntington Beach, into three separate units effective Dec. 1.


Company officials said the move is intended to streamline the operations of the St. Louis-based astronautics division and better focus activities of its three primary businesses--space


systems, missile systems and defense electronics. “This puts us in a position to be able to compete better in certain lines of our business,” said Susan Flowers, a spokeswoman at the parent


firm’s St. Louis headquarters. “I don’t believe this will have any effect on employment in St. Louis, Huntington Beach or our other locations.” The astronautics unit, with 1987 revenue of


about $2 billion, is the third largest of McDonnell Douglas’s five major operating companies. The Huntington Beach operation will be renamed McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Co. The


operation’s main activities include work on the U.S. space station, Delta rocket launch vehicles and the Strategic Defense Initiative, or “Star Wars,” program. Those programs will not be


affected by the reorganization, said Tom Williams, a spokesman in Huntington Beach. C. James Dorrenbacher, executive vice president of the astronautics division, has been named president of


space systems company. Dorrenbacher will continue to work in Huntington Beach. McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems Co. will have responsibility for the company’s tactical missiles and combat


weapons systems. The new company will be headquartered in St. Louis; Robert H. Hood, now a vice president for aerospace business development, will become president. McDonnell Douglas


Electronic Systems Co. will be made up of defense electronics and command, control and communications and intelligence businesses. The main elements of the new company will be various


defense operations in Huntington Beach, St. Louis and McLean, Va. No headquarters site has been chosen. R. R. Erkeneff, vice president and general manager of the company’s command, control


and communications and intelligence program in Huntington Beach, has been named executive vice president of the electronic systems unit. John F. Yardley, president of the astronautics


division, has been named senior vice president of the parent company. He will continue to head the operations during the restructuring and serve as acting head president of the electronics


unit until a permanent president is named. MORE TO READ


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