WHAT RECESSION? In the midst of a...

WHAT RECESSION? In the midst of a slump, a computer-board maker in Irvine has $55 million in orders this year, only its third year of existence. . . . Alpha Systems Lab Inc., founded by a Vietnamese immigrant couple, has a profitable military contract, has moved to larger quarters and is hiring. . . . “We will not ever move our manufacturing operation abroad,” says co-owner Mitchell Phan. “We owe our lives and fortunes to this country, and this is our only way of paying back America for taking us.”