Three Utah organizations have united to form a collaboration designed to build a talent pipeline for building a source of employees for the aerospace and defense sectors within the state.
YouScience, a science and technology education platform based in American Fork; Ogden-based Apogee Worx, an aerospace and defense manufacturing company; and 47G, the state’s newly formed aerospace and defense industry association, announced the new effort in late September.
Utah’s defense industry plays a crucial role in the state’s economy, contributing more than $19 billion in economic activity and supporting 211,000 jobs, the new group said. Since 2015, the sector has nearly doubled in Please log in to see the rest of this story.
