The joint venture has committed to build a Airports in Virginia are manufacturing operation expected to receive that projects to employ $399,740,660 in federal 2,500 people and funds over the next five produce up to 60 billion years as a result of the medical gloves a year. bipartisan infrastructure “This is about investing deal signed into law last to bring jobs back to month. The two DC-area the United States from airports, then Richmond overseas and doing and Norfolk get big it right here in rural chunks of that. Locally, America. This can be Roanoke-Blacksburg transformational for all Regional: $14,977,645 of Southwest Virginia,” and Virginia Tech/ said Northam. The Montgomery Executive: Commonwealth will $1,480,000 were in the chip in $8.5 million for mix. A spokesperson infrastructure upgrades for ROA said they were at Progress Park. studying how that money Personal Protective can be used, per FCC Equipment - PPE guidelines etc. became a prized and ____________________ sometimes scarce commodity during the PPE plant coming height of the pandemic to Wytheville shutdown. ____________________ Governor Ralph Northam attended a Who spends groundbreaking last that money? month for Blue Star NBR, LLC and Blue After President Joe Star-AGI, Inc., a joint Biden signed the venture between Blue bipartisan $1.2 trillion Star Manufacturing (or so) infrastructure and American Glove deal there have been Innovations. They have people worried about committed to invest the federal government $714.1 million to establish wasting that money an advanced, nitrile or not distributing it butadiene rubber fairly. Senator Tim Kaine manufacturing plant. believes the solution lies Airport funding
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largely in state and local governments. “I think local leaders often are the ones that make the best decisions, about how to use these dollars.” Kaine told the assembled remote media last month, “this money will go to the Commonwealth Transportation Board. So, on the road and bridge [portion of the bill] we let the local officials make the priority decisions.” Kaine also agreed with Biden's decision to appoint Mitch Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans and former Lieutenant governor of Louisiana, to help monitor the distribution. ____________________
“this partnership with Northrup Grumman will dramatically enhance the university’s work in a field that has the potential to reshape industry – and profoundly alter the dynamics of national security.” The Virginia Tech Innovation Campus plans to invest almost $16 million on top of the gift from Northrop Grumman to establish the Center for Quantum Architecture and Software Development. ____________________ BWX expansion
BWX Technologies, Inc., in Lynchburg, a leading supplier of nuclear components and fuel to the U.S. government, VT Innovation Campus has announced a multimillion-dollar Virginia Tech has investment to create announced a gift it says a manufacturing and will enhance research research and development and education at the center to be called the Innovation Campus in BWXT Innovation northern Virginia, and Campus. It will sit on in Blacksburg. Tech an 11-acre property President Tim Sands adjacent to the company’s announced last month existing facility and that Northrop Grumman will ,”showcase their will provide $12.5 million services and technology towards the expansion in Campbell County.” of work in the field of The company currently quantum information has three locations in science and engineering: Central Virginia and
