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New England’s Regional Defense Industry Collaboration

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million grant from the department of defense, will coordinate the growth of defense-related business across the six-state region. Read: New England’s Regional Defense Industry Collaboration at BusinessFacilities.com. The new organization, funded with a $1.5-million

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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P redictions about the speed of technological advances usually invoke a formula known in the semiconductor industry as “Moore’s law,” first postulated in 1965 by Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. They are able to evaluate them in an industrial facility so they can then bring them back to their own facility.”.

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Design-Build sets the standard for modern military lodging

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That’s the case with the new Navy Gateway Inns & Suites (NGIS) completed in late 2018 at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. This 200-room Design-Build project was the first of its kind conforming to new Department of Defense criteria. The industry has taken notice. NGIS Newport sets “a new standard”.

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Crystal Ball 2016

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Rhode Island demands extra Congressional district when iceberg the size of Rhode Island breaks off Greenland ice shelf and floats into Narragansett Bay. . — Sales of Bill O’Reilly bestseller Killing Judge Crater suspended when Crater emerges from cabin in Adirondacks, calls O’Reilly a liar. ” — U.S.

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Governor’s Report: Sooner Is Better In Oklahoma

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Fallin launched the Oklahoma Works initiative to meet the needs of businesses across the state by aligning education/workforce needs in nine Key Economic Regions for the industries in those regions. Availability of water is very important to manufacturing, the energy sector, the military and the hospitality industry,” Fallin said.

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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. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Gov. Pat Quinn, Sen.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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According to a release from NJEDA, the Edison VIII fund will invest in up to 25 tech startups in four industry sectors: financial technology, healthcare information technology, marketing technology and something called enterprise 2.0 The power industry is in transition. The NJEDA board recently approved a $2.5-million Andrew Cuomo.

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