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Keeping Up With Advanced Manufacturing

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WE HAVE LIFTOFF IN OKLAHOMA. Oklahoma’s advanced manufacturing industry is soaring with activity in aerospace, energy and other high tech industries and is supported by a hub of collaborative partnerships—from higher education and the Oklahoma CareerTech system to local economic development organizations and industry associations.

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COVER STORY: Editors’ Location Picks

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Motorola Mobility, Plantation, FL. The system provides a 448-mile navigation channel for barge traffic from the Mississippi River northwest to fifteen miles east of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Airbus Lands In Mobile. Mobile, AL already is a hub for heavy manufacturing. Airbus is putting a commercial aircraft assembly line in Mobile.

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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. While the population of Arkansas is just under three million, the state offers access to a market of 103 million people within a 550-mile radius of the state. population.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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Rising stars Tennessee and Indiana, our fourth- and fifth-ranked states in Best Business Climate, show no signs of abandoning their upward mobility in this flagship category. Iowa surges into second place and Oklahoma joins the top five in our annual wind power generation ranking. TN is Race to the Top Leader. 2 at 26 percent).

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

Building Information Management

He retired December 2006 after 30 years as a Designer and Director with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Deputy CIO at the Army Research Laboratory, and Chief Architect for the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment in supporting DoD’s 540,000 facilities. Tammy McCuen , Oklahoma University.

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

Building Information Management

He retired December 2006 after 30 years as a Designer and Director with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Deputy CIO at the Army Research Laboratory, and Chief Architect for the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment in supporting DoD’s 540,000 facilities. Tammy McCuen , Oklahoma University.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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The sites include the Greene and Sumter Renewal Community, made up of both counties, the Mobile Renewal Community, which includes Prichard and a section of east Mobile, and the Southern Alabama Renewal Community, which includes Wilcox County and parts of Butler, Conecuh, Dallas, Hale, Lowndes, Marengo, Monroe and Perry Counties.

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