Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Military contracts help building contractors weather the recession - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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The amount of military work is expected to stay plentifull in coming years despite work through the Departmentof Defense’s base closin and realignment initiative peaking, said Alan Watt, vice presidentf of aerospace and defense. Projects put off by the 2005 Defensre Base Realignment and Closurse Commission will now get their chancw tobe bid. There have been more opportunitiexs for military contracting in the past two particularly with the federalstimulus package, said Stevs Wetherell, project director. With the increase of available Wetherell has noticed more firms thatnormally wouldn’t bid on militarh contracts doing so. Haskell Co.
spokesman David Balz said his companty has had success in applying its specialties tomilitary work. For instance, the company’s education division can build chils development centers forthe military, and its aerospac division can construct paint hangars for the U.S. Air Force. In the past the company completednearly $90 million worth of governmeng work and was recently awarded about $100 million

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