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Expanding Opportunities for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

Expanding Opportunities for Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

The Export-Import Bank of the United States offers a number of tools to assist all U.S. manufacturers, and works to ensure that these opportunities are readily available to businesses owned by minorities and women. Watch video to learn more.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos stands next to a copper exhaust nozzle to be used on a space ship engine during a media tour of Blue Origin, the space venture he founded, Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Kent, Wash. The private space company opened its doors to the media for the first time on Tuesday to give a glimpse of how organizations like Blue Origin are creating the next generation of rockets for private and public use.

Blue Origin Plans 2017 Human Test Flights

Thousands of people have expressed interest in eventually paying for a trip on a suborbital craft.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said he's willing to just borrow the young people working in innovative fields in the private sector and he commended local business leaders for encouraging their employees to serve the nation.

Pentagon Wants to Borrow the Best Tech Minds

The defense secretary joked about the lengths they are willing to go to get technological help, saying they've even relaxed the dress code at the Pentagon, to welcome young people in hoodies.