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State Gives $3.6 Million to Calstart Projects: The Governor’s Council on Defense Conversion and Technology will either fund or endorse 13 projects proposed through the Calstart consortium, the public-private effort to promote a transportation manufacturing industry in California. The projects run from fuel cells being developed by Torrance-based Aerojet Corp. to advanced batteries by Trojan Battery Co. of Santa Fe Springs, to a new UCLA degree program in advanced transportation manufacturing.