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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. Virtually every major defense contractor in the U.S.

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Business Report: Chicago Will Host Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation Institute

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President Obama has awarded Chicago a $70 million grant from the Department of Defense to build a $320-million Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. The Digital Lab will apply computing technologies to address the manufacturing challenges faced by the Department of Defense.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Your eyes weren’t deceiving you when you saw Detroit, MI sitting at No. Yes, we know that Detroit became the largest city in history to file for bankruptcy protection, a process the city is expected to emerge from this year. Airbus is the largest customer of the U.S. aerospace industry, with over $14 billion in purchases from U.S.

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Michigan: Strong Partnerships, Stronger Growth

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Michigan’s economic development team is working with more than 100 inter-local and corporate partners to develop growth strategies. Read: Michigan: Strong Partnerships, Stronger Growth at BusinessFacilities.com.

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2021

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Dakota Clifford , Virginia Department of Transportation. For this purpose, he developed and programmed an interface website as middleware between many internal and external services, such as BIM360, in order to integrate them seamlessly into the historically grown IT infrastructure at Bremer. Marcus Kratz , The Tri-M Group, LLC.

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Separated at Birth

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Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Thankfully, the need to defend the U.S. from a land invasion by moving tanks around on our highways has been obsolete for decades; but the government’s official name for our 48,000-mile network of Interstates still evokes a military meme: The Dwight D.

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