Gov. Jack Dalrymple was in Grand Forks today to sign more than $120 million in legislation that will help create jobs and opportunities in an effort to grow and diversify North Dakota’s economy. Dalrymple signed Senate Bill 2018, the North Dakota Department of Commerce budget bill, and highlighted the bill’s appropriation of $5 million to develop an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) test site in North Dakota.
The Governor signed the bill during a news conference at the Ina Mae Rude Entrepreneur Center in Grand Forks. He was joined by University of North Dakota (UND) President Robert Kelley; Al Palmer, director of the Center for UAS Research, Education and Training at the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences; legislators and other local officials.
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