"Massachusetts competes with California for the largest number of defense-related federal grants"
The whole world is upside down because everything they told me was a lie.
So much for DemocraPs being the antiwar party and sanctimonial self-righteousness drilled in to every Bay-Stater since they was born. When I think of some of the liberal smugness around here it makes me want to puke.
We got a WAR PARTY with TWO WINGS.
"Defense shift plays to region's strengths; Robotics, other small-scale efforts favored" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | April 11, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's plans to introduce new gear to protect troops, invest in more robotics technology, and develop new intelligence-gathering systems will probably mean a long-term boost to a variety of New England companies and universities, helping to offset the proposed cuts to large-scale weapons programs, according to a review of the Defense Department's latest budget.
Yes, EMPIRES PROP UP STATE SCHOOLS!!!
Industry analysts and military officials said the US Army's Natick Soldier Systems Center - which develops what soldiers wear and carry, with the help of hundreds of local partners in the technology and health sectors and university researchers - is likely to be an early beneficiary.
Leading robotics manufacturers, including iRobot in Bedford and QinetiQ North America in Waltham, are also likely to see more business as a result of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates's new push for unmanned ground systems, they said. And a proposed boost in military surveillance technologies will probably expand the work at the Air Force's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, along with its contractors and laboratories along Route 128.
So I suppose the WARS will be NEVER-ENDING, huh? The country will go bankrupt and blow up the world because of it, but no one steps forward to call for a halt. I don't know if you've gotten the message here, but I a soooooo sick and tired of the wars and have WAITED SO LONG and been sold so much bs that I am quite exhausted by the whole thing.
"When it comes to robotics technologies and high-tech tools for front-line use, it typically involves smaller firms as well as university-based research efforts," said Rebecca Loveland, research manager at the Donahue Institute at the University of Massachusetts, who recently completed a study of the regional economic impact of defense contracts and research grants. "Additional funding for the development of new defense technologies and systems, including unmanned vehicles and communications and surveillance programs, would likely play to the Commonwealth's strengths."
But we liberals, you see, we's against wars!!! What FRAUDS!!! Hey, I'm not trying to be divisive in the left-right mode; I simply want loiberals to get off their high horse and smell the horse shit like the rest of us.
Last year there was a total of $12.8 billion in federal defense contracts in Massachusetts alone, nearly double from 2002, according to the Defense Technology Initiative, a local trade group. Although major defense corporations account for the majority of them, smaller companies, research labs, and universities are close behind.
A 2007 UMass study found that MIT was fourth in total military-related contract work in Massachusetts, behind corporate heavyweights
Hello, Chomsky!!!
Also see: Raytheon Roars
Pentagon Received $8 Billion From Obama's Stimulus
The private Charles Draper Laboratory was fifth, while many smaller entities ranked in the top 20, including high-tech firms BBN Technologies in Cambridge and Sencom Corporation in Billerica....
Massachusetts competes with California for the largest number of defense-related federal grants.... The proposed $534 billion Pentagon budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, which Gates announced on Monday, calls for a 4 percent increase over last year, not including the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan....
They never hurt for dough, even as the American people suffer on the altar of the empire's lies.
One of the largest increases proposed was an additional $2 billion next year for "intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for the warfighter," a specialty at Hanscom's Electronic Systems Center....
Ten-hut, student, I mean, soldier.
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