Kansas City National Security Campus: Difference between revisions

The plant traces its history to the [[Pratt & Whitney]] plant dedicated by then Senator Harry S. Truman in 1942, which manufactured [[Pratt & Whitney R-2800|Double Wasp]] engines during [[World War II]]. In 1949 the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]] commissioned the [[Bendix Corporation]] (specifically, the [[Bendix Aviation Corporation]]) to build the non-nuclear components of nuclear warheads there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://honeywell.com/sites/aero-kcp/About-Us/Pages/mission-history.aspx |title=Mission & History – Kansas City Plant |publisher=Honeywell |access-date=August 16, 2014 }}</ref> Bendix became [[AlliedSignal]] in 1983 and eventually [[Honeywell]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://kcnsc.doe.gov/missions/history|title=About Us – Honeywell History |publisher=Honeywell.com |access-date=August 16, 2014 }}</ref> Workers at the site are represented by the [[International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers]] (IAMAW).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Bischak |first=Greg |editor-last1=Dumas |editor-first1=Lloyd J. |editor-last2=Thee |editor-first2=Marek |encyclopedia=Making Peace Possible: The Promise of Economic Conversion |title=Facing the Second Generation of the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Renewal of the Nuclear Production Base or Economic Conversion? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=brijBQAAQBAJ |access-date=March 20, 2022 |date=1989 |publisher=Pergamon Press |series=Peace Research Monograph |volume=19 |isbn=0-08-037252X |page=118 }}</ref>