Litton to Eliminate 300 Woodland Hills Jobs

About 300 jobs will be eliminated at Litton Industries’ missile guidance and control systems division headquarters in Woodland Hills beginning late this year and ending in 1995, the Beverly Hills-based defense-industrial concern said.

Of the total, about 150 workers will be laid off and another 150 will be asked to relocate to the division’s main production facility in Salt Lake City.

Litton spokesman Bob Knapp said there would likely be further layoffs at Woodland Hills over the next few years, but the number has yet to be determined. However, he said, the division’s headquarters would remain in Woodland Hills.

The division, which makes navigation systems for the military, also said that in mid-1994 it will close its production facility in Grants Pass, Ore., where printed circuit boards and components for the navigation systems are made. The operations will be consolidated into the Salt Lake City plant, and about 35 of the 200 Oregon workers will be asked to move.

Knapp said the moves are part of the division’s ongoing cost-cutting and work-force reductions forced by defense budget cuts.

The division once employed 4,000 workers in Woodland Hills, but now has about 1,600.