West Michigan Companies Receive $667,000 in Military Contracts

February 4, 2008 5:13 PM |

Local companies in West Michigan doing work for the US military received $667,351 in contracts from the military last month. The money was awarded to the following companies according to research done as part of our military contractors database:

* L-3 Communications received $98,366 in two contracts.

* Woodward FST received $529,165 in two contracts.

* GE Aviation (formerly Smiths Aerospace) received one contract worth $50,000.

Additionally, an L-3 Communications facility out of Muskegon received a $8 million contract to "remanufacture" transmissions for Bradley Fighting vehicles. The vehicles are widely used in the US occupation of Iraq.

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