When I was living in Santa Barbara I DID know several engineers that worked for Raytheon just north in Goleta.

Two of them were optical engineers and these guys liked to PARTY!!! And talk! I never got any "inside information" at all other than space satellite projects they were working on. They showed me the 3D graphics programs on their home computers they were excited to be working with.

They're on the coast themselves. (Raytheon is located basically within walking distance to the beach). I don't talk with them any more, but when your relative and his co-workers move inland, it's time to follow. The guys I knew have families and homes (expensive area to live) and would selling their property, moving their kids and hightailing it out of there if they knew something was going to happen.

Maybe they are. I broke ties with them because the things hey liked to party with were out of my league. WAY out of my league.