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Insitu To Open Commercial UAS Facility At MSU

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They’re having a major impact on everything from homeland security, maritime search and rescue, and precision agriculture to environmental monitoring, which has inspired Insitu to open a new facility focused on the commercial UAS industry at Mississippi State University (MSU) in Starkville, MS.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

Business Facilities

Nevada and Alabama rounded out the top five in Economic Growth Potential, followed by Utah, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Mississippi. secured a $10 million Department of Defense contract to strengthen the cybersecurity of small businesses that work with manufacturers in Louisiana.

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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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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Points of Entry for Cash-Rich Cargo

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This service can remove about 700 trucks from the highways with each barge movement, making a major contribution to improving the air quality, safety and road capacity for our region. Current transportation inefficiencies create major issues with congestion, pollution and public safety. M-580 Project Scope.

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Unlimited liability for designers and contractors

Construction Lawyer

The cases with which he has been involved are varied and wide-ranging and include personal injury, breach of contract, criminal defense, commercial disputes, and consumer fraud. The case arose out of the collapse of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Minneapolis in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring many more.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Deke Smith is the Executive Director for the Building Seismic Safety Council and the buildingSMART alliance™ at the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). Deke is a 1973 graduate of Virginia Tech and holds a BArch, he has done post graduate work at the National Defense University. Leigh Lally. . Healthcare BIM Consortium.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Deke Smith is the Executive Director for the Building Seismic Safety Council and the buildingSMART alliance™ at the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). Deke is a 1973 graduate of Virginia Tech and holds a BArch, he has done post graduate work at the National Defense University. Leigh Lally. . Healthcare BIM Consortium.

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