According to a University of Massachusetts study released in June by the Defense Technology Initiative, a New England-wide business and academic coalition promoting growth in defense technologies, Connecticut's defense-related entities earned nearly $12.7 billion from defense and homeland security contracts in 2011, providing 101,000 statewide jobs and $7.9 billion in wages.
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