www.coaerospacealley.com<\/a>. The virtual presentation will air this Thursday, October 29th at 6:30 pm MST.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSurpassing the states of Florida and Texas, Colorado has\nbecome the nation’s second largest aerospace economy, behind only California,\naccording to the U.S. Department of Labor & Statistics. Given the vast\npopulation difference between Colorado and California, this means that Colorado\nnow has the highest per capita aerospace industry in the nation. The total\naerospace industry contributes more than $15 billion to Colorado’s economy on\nan annual basis and is rich with opportunity for new jobs amidst the nation’s\nnow struggling economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“For nearly 70 years, the combination of Air Force\npresence, open space, high altitude, and space-related science has made\nColorado an increasing hub for the nation’s aerospace economy. But because of a\nlong history of developing rocket engines, space defense tools, and GPS\nsatellites, and because we have not served as a physical rocket launch site due\nto our inland geography, little is spoken about aerospace here in Colorado,”\nsaid Major General John Barry, co-founder of the Aerospace Alley initiative and\nPresident and CEO of Wings Over the Rockies. “That is all about to change,\nthough, thanks to the increasing commercialization of space and the sheer\namount of training and talent our state brings to the aerospace industry.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Much in the same way that Silicon Valley earned its title as\na result of a remarkably large concentration of small tech companies clustering\nin the greater San Francisco area, Aerospace Alley in Colorado is already home\nto more than 500 aerospace companies today. Of those 500 companies, 64%\ncurrently employ less than 10 people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Our robust and dynamic aerospace ecosystem deserves an\nidentity to protect it and nurture it,” said Dianne Primavera, Colorado’s\nLieutenant Governor and the current Chair of the Colorado Space Coalition.\n“This week’s formal launch of America’s ‘Aerospace Alley’ will do just\nthat; by capturing the unique collection of industry, educational, and cultural\npartnerships that allow Colorado’s Aerospace industry to thrive. ‘Aerospace\nAlley’ will ensure that Colorado continues to lead, to innovate, and to grow in\nthe crucial aerospace industry.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, Colorado’s aerospace companies are leading the next\ngeneration of GPS and military space operations, creating innovation in solar\nand electric-powered aviation engines, and studying the science of black holes,\nneutron stars and pulsars. The state is also home to numerous military space\ncommands, federal agencies, and specialized educational institutions all\nfostering breakthrough research in the field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Colorado Space Coalition has helped recruit some of the\nnation’s top aerospace companies to the state, so Colorado is well-positioned\nto provide the hands-on training the workforce needs today. As the industry\ncontinues to expand into an increasingly commercialized sector, it will also\nneed more manufacturers, people with entrepreneurial and business skills, legal\nexpertise, communications, and problem-solving abilities as well. Major educational\npartners are now also providing formal classroom education, across all ages, to\nhelp fill the critical and high-paying roles that aerospace offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“From K-12 STEM programs, to post-secondary aerospace\nprograms, state educational institutions such as the University of Colorado at\nBoulder, the Colorado SKIES Academy in Denver, and Spartan College in\nBroomfield, a technical college focused on this industry, we are readying more\nastronauts, aviation technicians, pilots, engineers and scientists here in our\nstate to feed the industry’s ongoing drive for innovation,” said Nicholas\nBrown, Campus President at Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To celebrate Colorado’s strong and thriving aerospace industry and workforce training infrastructure, and to learn more about the Colorado Aerospace Alley initiative, go to www.WingsMuseum.org\/launch<\/a> to register for the Aerospace Alley launch event this Thursday, October 29, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, key organizational partners across Colorado, hand in hand with some of the nation’s leading aerospace and aviation companies, well-known industry personalities, and education leaders, will launch the “Aerospace Alley” initiative. This new initiative was created in an effort to celebrate the aerospace and aviation innovation underway across the State of Colorado and will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aerospace-Alley.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16737,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions\/16737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}