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Monday, July 9th, 2012

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The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Biofuel Building. The Navy joins with the departments of energy and agriculture to announce July 2 that $30 million in federal funding is available to match private investments in commercial-scale advanced drop-in biofuels. The Air Force releases a so-called funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for the “Advanced Drop-In Bio Fuels Production Project,” which it says has a goal of establishing “one or more complete domestic value chains capable of producing…

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