SECNAV announces $50 million Michigan workforce development initiative

By Nick Wilson / July 22, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro today announced the official start of the new Michigan Maritime Manufacturing Initiative -- a shipbuilding jobs program that aims to build a training pipeline to staff thousands of defense industry jobs across the state of Michigan and the larger Great Lakes region. The M3 initiative, a partnership between the Navy, the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity and other state institutions, will “implement a tailored and accelerated training curriculum focused on maritime welding and...

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