Some firms replace offshoring with onshoring / Small U.S. towns can match India in cost.
Source: By Peter Pae, Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2007
Gary Richardson left this boomtown-gone-bust in 1996 for a computer job in Dallas, the big city 60 miles north.
...... Not until this year, when Northrop Grumman Corp. opened an information technology center in town and began recruiting IT specialists and software engineers. In a twist on offshoring that Northrop has dubbed onshoring, the global defense and technology corporation has been shipping computer work to small-town America, shunning India's Bangalore and Mumbai.