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Chippewa Valley Draws Defense Dollars

EAU CLAIRE, WI- Efforts at improving communication and technology in the battlefield could help to improve the economic outlook of the Chippewa Valley. Thanks in large part to efforts by Rep. Dave Obey (D-7th District), several Chippewa Falls-area companies are in line to receive defense contracts in the upcoming 2003 federal defense budget bill, which was passed by the House and the Sen...

Small Tree Communications awarded $2.85M defense contract

This funding, part of the FY 2007 defense appropriations bill, was awarded through a competitive award process. It will enable the company t...

New Urbanism: Community planning Feng Shui

The need to have a rebirth of the American municipality. The need to create a solid platform for economic...

Research consortium aims to bring security and defense contracts to Wisconsin

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MATC student team wins cyber defense contest

A team of information technology students from has won first place in the first round of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, beating four teams from Minnesota, and later advanced to a Midwest regional compe...

National Bio and Agro Defense fits Wisconsin

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Wisconsin researchers defend stem cell company

The question was put to three stem cell researchers who recently spoke on stem cell basics at th...

Chippewa Valley firms land more defense work

These projects and others like them could thrive as the war on terrorism unfolds and the nation responds to the unique t...

Venture capitalist defends Wisconsin CAPCOs

John Neis, co-founder and senior partner of , said the findings of the <a href="http://www.legis.state.w...

Wisconsin's failure to attract federal defense dollars crimps tech economy

But the comparisons end when it comes to federal research spending on defense and aerospace industries. There, Wisconsin is a dismal third, and it helps t...

Defense contract helps Plexus gain record profits

The company's financial picture is tempered, h...

Chippewa Valley to get $46 million in defense spending

Secured by Democratic , the allocations still need approval from the U.S. Senate and President B...

Company defends RFID implant product

Scott Silverman, chairman and CEO of Applied Digital, the parent of VeriChip Corp., said the company's practic...

State defensive on new Oracle contract

Independent evaluator Dale Cattanach, retired former director of the Legis...

Small Tree receives $3.4M Defense funding for networking system

The money is part of the fiscal year 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill. Small Tree credits U.S. representative Dave Obey, D-Wausau...

Wisconsin consortium aims for defense business

Congress has approved a $500,000 start-up grant for the recently announced Wisconsin Security Research Consortium, a non-profit group for classified, defense-related projects. The consortium, led by the Wisconsin Technology Council, will also initially include the UW System, the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, and the Milwaukee School of Engineer...

Alfalight garners $1.4 million defense funding for diode program

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Medical College of Wisconsin researcher gets national defense appointment

Whelan, a professor of neurology and director of the college's hyperbaric medic...

Platypus keeps gathering federal funding with $750,000 for defense research

The Defense Adv...

Wisconsins untapped defense might: why saving military bases is just a start

MADISON Gov. Jim Doyles effort to keep Wisconsins five military installations off the Pentagons closure list deserves a crisp salute and not just because those bases bring nearly $850 million per year to the Wisconsin economy. Wisconsin is a hidden fortress of ideas and materials to be used in the ongoing war against terrorism; those assets should come to the atte...

Federal command center is at the front line of defense for public health emergencies

WASHINGTON A strain of avian influenza is detected on a poultry farm in Texas. Soon, there are reports of the same flu strain on farms in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. How can health officials be mobilized to stop the flu from making the leap from birds to humans? That process may well begin at the All-Emergency Room, the high-tech command center built by Health and Human Servi...

UW-Madison Gets Federal Biodefense Funds

MADISON, WI - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week the development of eight Regional Centers of Excellence (RCE) for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is collaborating with 11 other Midwestern institutions to form the Midwestern center as part of a $350 million national initiative. The Midwestern center, based...