Newspaper: Ohio received $4.3 billion in defense contracts last year [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Newspaper: Ohio received $4.3 billion in defense contracts last year
April 04, 2004 7:52 AM

A newspaper review finds that prime defense contract awards to Ohio companies climbed more than 20 percent in fiscal year 2003.

That bumps the state from 15th to 12th among the 50 states.

But the Dayton Daily News reports that not all of the four-point-three billion dollars stayed in Ohio. The amount also did not account for work that Ohio subcontractors did for prime contractors in other states.

The 20-point-37 percent increase was the biggest percent jump in ten years of statistics.
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