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Crystal Ball 2014

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NJ lands Boeing 777X plant after Gov. – Google driverless car sideswipes Stephen King’s SUV on unmarked road in Maine. – Google driverless car sideswipes Stephen King’s SUV on unmarked road in Maine. . – Amazon test drone shot down over New Hampshire house by man wielding 12-guage shotgun.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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is poised to dominate once again wherever the rubber meets the road,” he added. 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.

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Alabama is BF’s 2015 State of the Year

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TINTON FALLS, NJ — Dec. The state also snared Polaris’s new manufacturing facility for off-road vehicles, a plant that will create more than 2,000 new jobs. Alabama is BF’s 2015 State of the Year originally appeared on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine. These mega-projects were part of an impressive $2.7-billion

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – State Rankings

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We wish we could tell you that most locations are mobilizing to fix the nation’s crumbling roads, bridges and dams; unfortunately, the opposite seems to be true: the United States received an overall grade of D+ in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) annual assessment, our starting point for BF’s evaluation.

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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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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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and the largest road project in Pennsylvania’s history. million investment in Edison VIII, an offering of the VC firm Edison Partners, founded in 1986 and currently based in Princeton, NJ. defense department, with an additional $500 million in state and private investment. The NJEDA board recently approved a $2.5-million

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Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Gets Smarter, Faster

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Its aluminum will supply the automotive, aerospace and defense industries. The state’s transportation network can move products easily and efficiently by air, rail, road and water to all points globally. BIOGENESIS PICKS PATERSON, NJ. And there’s a momentum effect. Hackensack-based Biogenesis recently received a $9.36-million