Local Companies Receive $11 Million in Military Contracts

January 2, 2008 1:10 PM |

Companies located in West Michigan received over $11 million in military contracts in December according to research conducted as part of Media Mouse's ongoing work monitoring military contracts. These contracts included:

  • $432,620 awarded to Woodward FST in two contracts for aircraft engine components for the Air Force.

  • $5,274,671 awarded to Wolverine Worldwide for dress footwear for the Army and Marines.

  • $5,865,922 awarded to Smiths Industries Aerospace for ongoing support for the 600 C-130 aircraft used by the military throughout the world.

This month, local military contractors received some coverage in the local corporate media--a rarity--with the contractor Corporate Security Solutions (CSS) being the subject of a lengthy article in the Grand Rapids Press. Unfortunately, an analysis of the article by the Media Mouse-affiliated Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy (GRIID) found that the article failed to move outside of the typical media frame that fails to question contractors or provide a larger context for the work that they do. However, the article did reveal that Corporate Security Solutions has 200 employees deployed in Iraq.

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