A2: Federal Funding

The Detroit Free Press reports that the recently passed federal budget bills contain $3.5 million earmarked for the Ann Arbor-to-Detroit rail project. [Source] A Detroit News report on the defense appropriations bill, passed by the U.S. Senate on Saturday, notes that several Ann Arbor companies will receive funding, including $1.2 million to Cybernet Systems Corp., for work on a shipboard wireless device for Navy ships. [Source]