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State’s Office of Defense and Aerospace Innovation outlines programs to boost contractor competitiveness
Summary
The newly announced Michigan Office of Defense and Aerospace Innovation described grant, cybersecurity and bid-targeting services and highlighted a Calumet Electronics onshoring project supported with state and federal funds.
LANSING — Colonel John Gutierrez, representing the Michigan Office of Defense and Aerospace Innovation (ODAI), briefed the committee on the office’s mission to grow Michigan’s defense and aerospace sectors and to help companies win federal contracts.
“We are focused on supporting the Department of Defense and making our companies…as competitive as we can to compete and win those defense contracts,” Gutierrez told the committee. He said the office’s work rests on three lines of effort: proposal grants and writing services to cover up to 50% or $10,000 for proposal-writing services; a…
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