Space comms company offered nearly $5M in incentives to bring 451 jobs Boulder County

DENVER — Colorado is offering an unnamed space communications company more than $4.9 million in tax incentives to expand its operations in the state with a new antenna factory in Boulder County that would create 451 new jobs.

The expansion, referred to in Colorado Economic Development Commission and Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade documents as Project Eye in the Sky, “will support advanced projects for national defense that will require (a) unique facility and infrastructure,” according to an OEDIT memo.

It is the commission’s practice not to identify companies OEDIT is recruiting until incentives are accepted.

The mystery company was…