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March / April 2016 Issue (Volume 49, Number 2)

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2016 Economic Development Awards | We adjusted our annual awards categories to shine our spotlight on locations that are leading the way in addressing today’s hot-button issues, including funding infrastructure upgrades, initiating smart grid modernization and pioneering offshore wind farms. To subscribe to BF , visit this link.

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American Competitiveness: A Matter Of National Security

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The American Security Project (ASP) has released a new report analyzing the issues of the country’s national competitiveness. It is an Oval Office or boardroom issue as much as a kitchen-table issue.” We will need to reform institutions and ensure we support STEM and technology education.”

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The Drone Age

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The two remaining sites were in the middle of heavily traveled air corridors in the East: New York’s Mohawk Valley and Virginia Tech (in a joint effort with Rutgers University in New Jersey). Should commercial drone flights be permitted before defenses against rogue drones are perfected? Thank you for voting.

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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., according to Deloitte’s new U.S. Aerospace & Defense Labor Market Study. percent, of which about 185,000 jobs were lost in the defense subsector. Acadiana is home to PHI, Inc.,

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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Rick Scott has eliminated hundreds of regulations he says are impeding business expansions and new facilities in the Sunshine State; and Louisiana, which has married an unrivaled workforce training program with a bevy of new incentives that are spurring hot new growth sectors, including digital media. million workers in 2010.

Iowa 69
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The Drone Age

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According to Turner, who chairs the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, the selection of sites without the established aerospace infrastructure of the Dayton area will result in unnecessary duplication of systems and increased costs. New England U.S. Far West U.S. Great Lakes U.S. - Mid Atlantic U.S. -

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – State Rankings

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We also split our biofuels production ranking into two categories, including a benchmark for cellulosic ethanol, which promises to become a major new alternative energy source as pilot plants ramp up into full-scale production. Infrastructure was another category that deserved a closer look.