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Snapshots: 60 Seconds With Jose Lozano, Choose New Jersey

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Jose Lozano, President and Chief Executive Officer, Choose New Jersey, Inc., Read: Snapshots: 60 Seconds With Jose Lozano, Choose New Jersey at BusinessFacilities.com. discusses the state's workforce development plans, plus efforts to encourage its innovation ecosystem.

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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. Effective action starts with looking at more than military might to understand what truly makes America strong. It is an Oval Office or boardroom issue as much as a kitchen-table issue.”

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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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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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For the past few years, we have issued a Metro ranking for our annual evaluation of aerospace/defense manufacturing leaders. More than 162,000 workers are directly employed in the aerospace/defense industries in the Golden State. aerospace and defense industry directly employed 1.05 Deloitte estimates that the U.S.

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Germ of an Idea

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Department of Agriculture designated it in 1954 as the new home of something called the Animal Disease Center. Well, what really was going on behind the security fences on Plum Island had little to do with agriculture and everything to do with the most hideous kinds of weapons. In 1957, the Defense Department gave W.R.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – State Rankings

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Arizona has eased into second place, edging out New Jersey, which has an aggressive utility-backed program for residential as well as commercial panel installations. 3 in Aerospace/Defense Industry Leaders, no. We expect our new Data Center Leaders rankings category to continue to grow in importance.

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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.,