> The federal government is increasingly embracing private business collaboration in its space missions, space-based projects and to power the new US Space Force as it ramps up in Los Angeles. This is creating a lot of activity and opportunity for LA-based aerospace companies.

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/exclusive-inside-area-51-the-se...

> Jacobsen, a contributing editor and investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times Magazine, interviewed the former Area 51 employees in 2008 and 2009, shortly after the CIA declassified much of the work they had done.. Jacobsen reveals some of the wild research that went on in the 1970s at Area 51 -- where the military built the U-2 spy plane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51

> Area 51 is located in the southern portion of Nevada, 83 miles (134 km) north-northwest of Las Vegas.