Boeing Co. adding jobs in Colorado Springs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The aerospace industry in Colorado Springs is still healthy.

Boeing Co. has been adding jobs in Colorado Springs to work on a new satellite system designed to detect and track objects orbiting the Earth as well as several other programs.

Boeing's senior Colorado executive Bill Hodgkins says the aviation giant has added about 100 workers there in the past year and expects to add 50 to 75 more this year to complete software design and hardware systems that control the Space Based Space Surveillance satellite system, as well as upgrades to the Global Positioning System satellite network and a new global military-communications satellite system.

Boeing had about 600 workers in Colorado Springs by the end of last year, up from 423 in 2006.