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State Focus – Kansas: The Sunflower State Is Blooming and Booming

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The state’s largest city, Wichita, is known as the Air Capital of the World due to the prominent role it plays in aviation manufacturing. Wichita’s aviation manufacturers are supported by the National Center for Aviation Training and Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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Using a formula that takes into account the new tax revenues generated by the 1,612 new jobs, the JDIG agreement authorizes the potential reimbursement to the company of up to $54 million paid over 12 years. Over the course of the grant’s 12-year term, the project will grow the state’s economy by an estimated $6.3

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BUSINESS REPORT: Kansas – Agricultural Biotechnology Research Is Growing In Kansas

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The action by the Senate Appropriations Committee sends the spending request for the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility (NBAF to the full Senate for passage. The National Bio-and Agro-defense Facility will become the nation’s premier biodefense lab, replacing an aging complex on Plum Island, NY. PROJECT OVERVIEW.

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