The San Diego Foundation awards two planning grants to the East County and South County economic development councils.
The grants are aimed to "turn Gillespie into a hub for advanced precision manufacturing and research-and-development in unmanned flight systems" and making it an "aerotropolis", according to council officials. John Kasarda at the University of North Carolina endorsed the concept.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.