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U.S. Commerce Department Designates South Kansas A Manufacturing Community

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Wichita State has a strong history of partnering with advanced manufacturers in research and education of the workforce. Our goal through the IMCP is to secure south central Kansas as a global leader in advanced materials, ensuring increased high-wage employment opportunities for Kansans,” said Wichita State University President John Bardo.

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State Focus – Kansas: The Sunflower State Is Blooming and Booming

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The state’s largest city, Wichita, is known as the Air Capital of the World due to the prominent role it plays in aviation manufacturing. Wichita’s aviation manufacturers are supported by the National Center for Aviation Training and Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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The states that have put the assets in place today to support a thriving cybersecurity industry—including STEM-oriented higher education programs with cyber-specific degrees and R&D facilities working in tandem with national security agencies, the U.S. military and business—will rule the cyber sector tomorrow. Louisiana, no. In May, Gov.

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Public or Private?

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When we asked him if he could give us some specifics about how many jobs actually resulted from several incentive-laden projects, he told us that each job was tied to an employee’s social security number and therefore he was prohibited by privacy requirements from disclosing this information. No, we’re not making that up.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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However, recent developments have made it difficult to get an accurate fix on the metro pecking order in this critical employment sector, as jobs continue to shift between aerospace hubs in Wichita, Charleston, Seattle and Oklahoma City. Therefore, in our 2012 report we have refocused this category as a state ranking.

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Texas: Tri-Agency Workforce?Initiative Aims To Meet 21st Century Job Needs

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The Commissioners will evaluate current agency efforts, as well as state and local web-based education and career awareness systems in an effort to better link students, parents, and educators to the broad array of high-demand jobs in this state and the educational requirements to secure those opportunities.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Kansas – Agricultural Biotechnology Research Is Growing In Kansas

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The House has already approved $404 million for the project, part of the Department of Homeland Security’s budget for 2014. Department of Homeland Security approved a transfer agreement with Kansas for a 46-acre site north of KSU in Manhattan, KS. ” STARWOOD TO OPEN CUSTOMER CONTACT CENTER IN WICHITA. Kansas Sens.

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