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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. The Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC), working with other state agencies, offers a Career Readiness Certificate to potential employees. population. million square feet.

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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. Southern California, Washington’s Puget Sound and the Dallas/Ft. More than 162,000 workers are directly employed in the aerospace/defense industries in the Golden State. Deloitte estimates that the U.S.

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FEATURE STORY: Talking The Talk And Backing It Up With Results

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3 in Aerospace/Defense Industry Leaders, no. billion project to connect West Texas wind farms with the power grid serving Dallas and Houston. Texas repeated as our top-ranked state for Best Business Climate; it also snared no. Top 10 finishes for Texas included: no. 2 in Data Center Leaders, no. 4 in Credit Quality and no.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Texas – Innovation Moves Front And Center In Austin

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Largest Cities (2011): Houston, 2,145,146; San Antonio, 1,359,758; Dallas, 1,223,229; Austin, 820,611; Fort Worth, 758,738. Targeted Industries: IT & Computer Tech, Energy, Petroleum Refining & Chemical Products, Advanced Tech & Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defense. .): 25,674,681. They think big.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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It will augment current R&D, engineering and manufacturing capabilities in Maryland and Europe operated by AST&Science and its subsidiary AST&Defense. This will open up an astonishing range of commercial and defense applications not previously possible with traditional satellite manufacturing techniques.”.

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Keeping Up With Advanced Manufacturing

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This new investment will mirror CMC’s existing micro mill in Mesa, Arizona and will be built with improved technology developed from CMC’s operating experience with the world’s first micro mill, which CMC successfully commissioned in Mesa in 2009. Activity and growth in and around the Dallas market has been huge over the past decade.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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Pauken is the chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission. Located on Interstate 30 approximately 30 minutes from the eastern edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Greenville provides everything needed for successful business. Highway 69/380 provides a connection to the Northern growth regions of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.

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