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Article: Pioneering MIT lab may be best argument for keeping Massachusetts base open.

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By Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 27--BEDFORD, Mass. -- When Governor Mitt Romney and Senator Edward M. Kennedy met with Pentagon officials last week to press for saving and expanding Hanscom Air Force Base, the heart of their case was the base's symbiotic relationship with the region's technology research cluster. Exhibit A was the neighboring MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

"Lincoln Lab is really one of the magnets for the Air Force commitment to Hanscom," Romney recalled telling them. "Their technology is at the heart of the military's intelligence technologies and capabilities. It's at the heart of what ...

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