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Industry Focus: Global Aerospace Production Soars To New Heights

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According to Deloitte’s 2014 Global Aerospace and Defense Outlook , the commercial aerospace sector is expected to experience significant growth this year, driven by continued record-setting production levels at assembly facilities and throughout the aerospace supplier network. The end of the Iraq war and the impending end of the 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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Airbus Expanding In Virginia

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Airbus Americas has selected the Airbus facility in Ashburn, VA as the site for its newly consolidated operations with Satair Group, a 100 percent Airbus subsidiary. This would be the first commercial business incentive authorized by the board this fiscal year. Source: Loudoun County Department of Economic Development.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Illinois – Strong Demand Lifts Industrial Parks In Wheeling, IL

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Rendering of the new Tin Goose Hangar, which is under construction at Chicago Executive Airport. Another longtime Wheeling business—a polyethylene extruder, converter and printer that manufactures a variety of industrial and commercial plastic products—has expanded into a nearby 105,000 sq. Photo: Morganharbour.com.). By Sharon Clark.

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The Drone Age

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Years from now, the end of 2013 probably will be remembered as the dawning of the Drone Age in America. Presumably those factors include the protection of commercial airliner routes from drone incursions and basic privacy issues (that laughter you’re hearing is the NSA dweeb reading this post on our hard drive). Far West U.S.

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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With more than 1,200 aerospace and defense companies in Arizona, it is easy to understand why PriceWaterhouseCoopers ranked Arizona number one for aerospace manufacturing attractiveness. In fact, the Arizona/Sonora, Mexico region makes up the fourth-largest aerospace supply chain in the world and the largest in North America.

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Homeland Insecurity

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But there’s another type of infrastructure that’s in dire need of an overhaul: the national security edifice that’s supposed to prevent terrorists from murdering us on the streets of the America. they were learning how to fly commercial aircraft, but seemed to have no interest acquiring the skills for takeoffs or landings.