State awards defense grants

Northwest Florida will get more than $900,000 in defense grants, Gov. Rick Scott announced Tuesday. Santa Rosa County will get $360,000 through Florida's Defense Reinvestment and Infrastructure Grant Programs and $41,310 from the Florida Defense Support Task Force for Naval Air Station Whiting Field. Okaloosa County will get $300,000 through Florida's Defense Reinvestment and Infrastructure Grant Programs for Eglin Air Force Base and Hurlburt Field. Escambia County will get $170,000 through the Defense Reinvestment and Infrastructure Grant Programs for Naval Air Station Pensacola, and Walton County will get $38,000 through the Defense Reinvestment Grant Program to support Eglin. (Sources: Pensacola News Journal, Northwest Florida Daily News, 06/30/15)