Global aerospace and defense company Boeing will lay off more than 60 of its Colorado employees in early 2025, including in Colorado Springs.

The company, headquartered just outside Washington, D.C. in Arlington County, Va., announced late last week it will eliminate approximately 63 employees at seven Colorado locations. These include two Schriever Space Force Base locations and three others in Colorado Springs, on Wooten Road and Tech Center and Federal drives. Layoffs will also occur in Denver and Englewood.

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Boeing spokesman Connor Greenwood on Wednesday declined to share details about how many employees at each Colorado location, or what roles, will be impacted by the cutbacks.

Boeing notified the state about the permanent layoffs, expected to begin Jan. 17 for most affected employees, in a written letter under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. The law requires employers, in most cases, to provide employees with 60 days’ notice of job eliminations.

Employees were also notified of the layoffs last week, Greenwood said.

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The company had more than 1,500 employees in Colorado at the end of 2023.

The layoffs are related to Boeing’s announcement in early October that it would reduce its total workforce by about 10%, or approximately 17,000 jobs.

Boeing President and CEO Kelly Ortberg said at the time the company must “reset our workforce levels to align with our financial reality and to a more focused set of priorities.”

Ortberg also announced other changes last month, including to the company’s production plans for its 777X program and 767 freighters.

Greenwood said Wednesday that Boeing will ensure affected employees have support during this time.

Eligible employees will receive severance pay, career transition services and subsidized health care benefits up to three months after exiting Boeing. The eliminated positions “include attrition and concentrating backfills for open positions on business-critical priorities,” he said.

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The layoffs come on the heels of a nearly two-month strike by Boeing factory workers on the West Coast, halting output of most of its commercial jets.

Boeing announced larger job eliminations at other U.S. locations, including 2,200 workers in Washington, Reuters reported Monday. They include several hundred engineers and production workers, despite Ortberg’s statement in October that Boeing didn’t intend to remove people from production or engineering labs, Reuters reported.