December 20, 2019 – In approving a sweeping Fiscal Year 2020 federal spending bill, Congress included $4 million in additional U.S. Army R&D funding allocated for continued research into manufacture and maintenance of transparent armor used in military combat vehicles.  Rochester, New York-based Lumetrics company, a leader in transparent armor optical inspection technology, will have

December 20, 2019 – In approving a sweeping Fiscal Year 2020 federal spending package, Congress has approved continued funding of medical research into deployed warfighter respiratory disease which has been led in recent years by National Jewish Health, the nation’s leading lung research institution.  National Jewish Health is a client of The National Group, Washington,

December 20, 2019 — In approving a sweeping Fiscal Year 2020 federal spending bill, Congress included $14 million in continued funding for the REMADE Institute, a Department of Energy manufacturing research center located at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York.  This funding brings the total of DOE funding for REMADE to $70

The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously passed an amendment to a supplemental emergency disaster relief appropriations bill offered by American Samoan Congresswoman Amata Radewagen which would provide $5 million to the Territory of American Samoa for emergency nutrition assistance.  The National Group, which represents the Governor of American Samoa before the federal government, coordinated

The Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee today approved the Fiscal Year 2019 Department of Defense Appropriations bill and included direction to the Department of Defense to conduct a study on respiratory ailments of deployed warfighters and to expand research into treating both acute and long-term effects of toxic battlefield exposures. Senators Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner

The Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee today approved the Fiscal Year 2019 Department of Defense Appropriations bill and included $2 million for the Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) decade-long research partnership with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) aimed at development of technologies designed to extend the service life of military combat vehicles and reduce costs