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FloridaMakes is offering a Cybersecurity Resiliency for Defense Contractors workshop on April 2. Held at the Hilton Pensacola Beach, this workshop will teach manufacturers how to protect the information and future of their business. With the Department of Defense (DoD) ramping up its focus on cybersecurity for the supply chain, specific steps need to be … Read more

Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Nearly $5 Million Job Growth Grant

Press Release: Pensacola, Fla. – Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced he is awarding nearly $5 million to the city of Pensacola for infrastructure enhancements to the Pensacola International Airport through the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund. The Governor was joined by Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) Executive Director Ken Lawson and Enterprise Florida Inc. (EFI) President … Read more

Pensacola Young Professionals

Last Thursday, I had the honor of taking part on a panel at Pensacola Young Professionals Quality of Life Survey Event, Perception vs. Reality. I was reminded of how far Greater Pensacola and Escambia County have come in the last few years. Public perception is that our economy has improved. According to the Quality of … Read more

Students at Pine Forest High School will benefit from a statewide investment by AT&T this year – one that seeks to increase understanding of how classroom curriculum translates into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers. For ten consecutive years, AT&T is working with the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations (CFEF) to provide experiential learning … Read more

A Pensacola-based health technology company was selected by Microsoft to participate in a new grant program to help expand the company’s work using retina imaging to detect disease. Microsoft’s AI For Good initiative announced on Wednesday the start of new $40 million, five-year program called AI for Health that hopes to use artificial intelligence to help solve health … Read more

The University of West Florida has been awarded a five-year grant totalling approximately $2.4 million to prepare cybersecurity students for federal, state, local and tribal government organizations amid a cyber workforce shortage. The National Science Foundation CyberCorps® Scholarship For Service grant will provide scholarships for 23 undergraduate and graduate cybersecurity, computer science and information technology … Read more

Why Should You Export to the Caribbean Region? The Caribbean region represents a sizeable export market of 44 million people who collectively imported over $27 billion of U.S. goods and services in 2018. Huge Demand The region is the third largest export market for U.S. manufactured goods in Latin America behind only Mexico and Brazil. … Read more