Editing South Bay (Los Angeles County) (section)

===Aerospace===
The South Bay is the traditional home of Southern California's [[aerospace]] industry. While considerably shrunken from its [[Cold War]] peak, it still represents a major economic force, employing thousands in high-skill, high-wage engineering positions and generating enormous amounts of tax revenue. [[Northrop Grumman]] has a major facility in El Segundo where the [[F/A-18 Hornet]] fuselage is manufactured, as well as the headquarters of the Space Technology division in [[Redondo Beach, California|Redondo Beach]] and a facility at the [[Hawthorne Municipal Airport (California)|Hawthorne Municipal Airport]]. [[Howmet]] Fastening Systems, a subsidiary of [[Howmet Aerospace]], has their corporate headquarters located in Torrance with manufacturing facilities in both Torrance and Carson. [[Boeing]] and [[Lockheed Martin]] also maintain extensive production facilities throughout the South Bay and [[Raytheon]] maintains a facility in El Segundo. The [[Los Angeles Air Force Base]] and neighboring [[The Aerospace Corporation|Aerospace Corporation]] in [[El Segundo, California|El Segundo]] are a main focus of aerospace research activity and serve as the primary development facilities for military [[satellite]]s and other space programs. [[DirecTV]], a former subsidiary of [[Hughes Aircraft]], is also headquartered in El Segundo for the same reason. [[SpaceX]] is also headquartered in the South Bay in [[Hawthorne, California|Hawthorne]].