More than $2.7 billion has been appropriated for Michigan-based companies for fiscal 2006 as part of the U.S. Senate-passed defense appropriations bill. The Senate passed the bill 97-0 on Oct. 7. The Senate version included $1.4 billion in funding for research and development at several state universities including the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University , Oakland University , Eastern Michigan University and the University of Detroit-Mercy .