
Space Florida is touting its manufacturing capacity to attract new business as federal budgets tighten and political diversity through “ship-and-shoot” falls out of fashion.Space Florida President and CEO Frank DiBello said in the past 20 or 30 years, when budgets were fat and new start programs plenty, companies placed manufacturing facilities across the country to curry political favor. DiBello said in today’s space economy challenged by sequestration budget caps and fewer programs of record, companies are looking to consolidate their…