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FY 20 CONGRESSIONAL SPENDING PACKAGE INCLUDES $4 MILLION FOR LUMETRICS TRANSPARENT ARMOR RESEARCH

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 …

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CONGRESS REITERATES SUPPORT FOR CONTINUED FUNDING OF WARFIGHTER RESPIRATORY RESEARCH LED BY NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH

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, …

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FY 20 CONGRESSIONAL SPENDING PACKAGE INCLUDES $14 MILLION FOR RIT/DOE REMADE MANUFACTURING RESEARCH CENTER

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 …

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U.S. HOUSE VOTE UNANIMOUSLY FOR $5 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE FOR AMERICAN SAMOA

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 …

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SENATE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE CALLS FOR DOD STUDY OF WARFIGHTER RESPIRATORY AILMENTS, NEED FOR RESEARCH

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 …

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SENATE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE APPROVES $2 MILLION FOR RIT OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH MILITARY SYSTEMS LIFE EXTENSION RESEARCH PROGRAM

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 …

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SENATE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL APPROVES INCREASE IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH FUNDING AND CALLS FOR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS

Monday, January 8, 2018 – The Senate Appropriations Committee, in its recently marked up FY 2018 bill and report, has approved a significant increase in infectious disease research funding and called for further DOD investments in infectious disease research and new partnerships with research universities with infectious disease expertise. The Senate Committee included $240 million …

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SENATE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL CONTINUES FUNDING FOR NATIONAL JEWISH WARFIGHTER RESPIRATORY RESEARCH – CALLS FOR STUDY OF RESEARCH EXPANSION

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 – The Senate Defense Appropriations Committee, in its recently approved FY 2018 bill and report, included continued funding and language supporting expanded respiratory research on warfighters currently being conducted at National Jewish Health, Denver Colorado, a client of The National Group lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. The continued funding for warfighter …

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NATIONAL GROUP ANNOUNCES SPECIAL HEALTHCARE REFORM LEGISLATION LOBBYING PRACTICE GROUP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact Person:  Vincent Versage, Partner Company Name:  The National Group Voice Phone Number:  202 427 5030 Email Address: [email protected] Website URL:  www.thenationalgroup.net NATIONAL GROUP ANNOUNCES SPECIAL HEALTHCARE REFORM LEGISLATION LOBBYING PRACTICE GROUP Monday, October 2, 2017 – The National Group, a federal government relations practice in Washington, D.C., announced today the launching of …

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ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-LED RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP WINS $70 MILLION NNMI GRANT FOR CLEAN ENERGY MANUFACTURING RESEARCH

Washington, D.C., January 24, 2017 – The Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) was selected by the Department of Energy, as part ofits “Manufacturing USA” initiative, to lead its new “Reducing Embodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute. REMADE will be a national research coalition, based at and led by RIT, that will forge …

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