A state wildlife management area is a buffer zone around an aerospace manufacturing, development, and test site run for many years by Pratt & Whitney. The remote site was developed in the 1940s, for early rocket engine development. Today it covers 7,000 acres and includes around 50 engine and component test structures for rocket and jet engines, an extensive jet engine development complex, a military helicopter development and test site, a radar cross-section evaluation facility, a runway, and an aircraft engine manufacturing complex with more than two million square feet of floorspace, making engines for fighter aircraft, and employing hundreds of people. Facilities have been operated by Aerojet, Rocketdyne, Sikorsky, GenCorp, and Pratt & Whitney, which is now owned by Raytheon.