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    $50M ‘Build to Scale’ Funding Opportunity Launched

    B2S grants fund programs that support innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups transforming ideas into the critical, emerging technologies of the future.
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    Recompete Awards $184 Million in Funding

    EDA names six Recompete Awardees to implement innovative strategies to create good-paying jobs and economic growth, focusing on some of the most economically distressed places in the country.
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    New Good Jobs Challenge Funding Available

    Apply now for the FY 2024 $25 million Good Jobs Challenge. The program builds off the success of the American Rescue Plan Act to invest in high-quality, locally led workforce training programs.
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Recompete Awards $184 Million in Funding New Good Jobs Challenge Funding Available

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September 10, 2024

EDA Supports Aviation and Aerospace Education on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Pearl River is just a short drive from the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. Operated by NASA, it is America’s largest and most productive test site for rocket propulsion systems, serving both the nation and the commercial sector. As early as 2005, school officials saw the need to develop a steady pipeline of skilled workers capable of supporting the growing aviation and aerospace fields on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves and other local officials welcomed faculty and students to the new facility in a ribbon cutting ceremony on August 5, 2024
August 13, 2024

EDA Helps the Wood Products Industry Branch Out in the Northern Forest

Timber markets are one of America’s most valuable, yet unpredictable, natural resource industries. It is no stranger to volatility, going from boon to bust and back again. As recently as 2019, paper mills and biomass electric plants were closing in Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont, a four-state region collectively referred to as the Northern Forest. As the plants continued to close, the demand for wood harvested in the region began to decline.
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Old black and white photo of the Great Northern Paper Company opened for business in 1899, employing multiple generations for more than a century. (Photo courtesy of the Maine Historical Society.)
July 16, 2024

EDA-Funded Manufacturing Revival Underway in New England

Pittsfield, Massachusetts is a small New England community about two hours from Boston. Throughout the 20th Century, it was known as a hub for manufacturing, providing residents with a host of jobs in regional production plants. General Electric (GE) was the town’s biggest employer, operating a plastic production facility along the Housatonic River.
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September 16, 2024

Economic Development Administration, Defense Innovation Unit Codify Partnership for Innovation, National Security, and Economic Growth

Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on September 5, 2024, at Commerce headquarters in Washington, D.C. This agreement aims to enhance American competitiveness by leveraging each organization's assets and connections nationwide, helping connect more American-made innovations to avenues for scaling, commercialization, and procurement.
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September 13, 2024

Senior U.S. Department of Commerce Official Visits KC BioHub in Kansas and Missouri

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Maryam Janani-Flores, Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), visited the Kansas City Inclusive Biologics and Biomanufacturing Tech Hub (KC BioHub), which serves both Missouri and Kansas. The Biden-Harris Administration, through the EDA, designated the KC BioHub, a coalition led by the BioNexus KC, as a Tech Hub in October 2023. 
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September 10, 2024

U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $3.8 Million for Building Renovations to Support Clean Energy Workforce Development in Flushing, New York

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.8 million grant to the Educational and Cultural Trust Fund of the Electric City in Flushing, New York, for building renovations to support clean energy workforce development in the region.
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September 10, 2024

U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2.9 Million to Expand Workforce Development for the Aviation and Construction Industries in Ohio

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is investing $2.9 million in the state of Ohio to support workforce development programs that will grow the aviation and construction industries throughout the region, including Appalachia.
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September 10, 2024

U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2.5 Million for Wastewater Infrastructure Improvements to Support Economic Growth at the Bay Mills Indian Community Reservation in Michigan

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.5 million grant to the Bay Mills Indian Community in Brimley, Michigan, for wastewater infrastructure improvements needed to support economic development in the region.
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