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The Drone Age

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The winners are: the University of Alaska; the state of Nevada; Griffiss International Airport in Rome, NY; North Dakota Department of Commerce; Texas A&M University (Corpus Christi); and a collaboration between Virginia Tech and NJ’s Rutgers University. The post The Drone Age appeared first on Business Facilities. Far West U.S.

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Industry Focus: Aerospace Sector Is Flying High Again

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A fter several years of job losses, aerospace and defense sector employment is expected to grow in 2016 by more than 39,000 jobs in the U.S., Aerospace & Defense Labor Market Study. percent, of which about 185,000 jobs were lost in the defense subsector. Aerospace and defense sector companies paid $7.7

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Send in the Drones

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Seeking to overcome the advantage held by aero-defense hubs like Dayton, two states that aren’t even adjacent to each other have decided to pool their resources and submit a joint bid for the UAV test program. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Far West U.S.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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For the past few years, we have issued a Metro ranking for our annual evaluation of aerospace/defense manufacturing leaders. More than 162,000 workers are directly employed in the aerospace/defense industries in the Golden State. aerospace and defense industry directly employed 1.05 California, NJ, PA Are Biotech Behemoths.

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Germ of an Idea

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The focus of the work at Plum Island shifted from offense to defense after 1975. Grace plant in Wayne, NJ illustrates that the long-term damage from an abandoned weapons production facility may not be discovered until a once-rural area has been transformed into a densely populated suburb. In 1957, the Defense Department gave W.R.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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secured a $10 million Department of Defense contract to strengthen the cybersecurity of small businesses that work with manufacturers in Louisiana. Through this major defense contract, our small businesses now have an ally in that fight, and we can provide real solutions to develop the cyber workforce of tomorrow.”.

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Remembering Ed Coene

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in Red Bank, NJ, Ed opened Bus Fac Publishing Co. In 1966, McGraw-Hill bought Ed’s first magazine (a trade pub called 33 , named after the SIC code for metalworking) and made him an offer they thought he couldn’t refuse: an executive position with an office on a top floor of their new Rockefeller Center skyscraper. Far West U.S. Plains U.S.

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