The Arkansas #Aerospace & #Defense Alliance is dedicated to advancing the industry & training a qualified workforce.
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Behind every aircraft in the air is a workforce that knows exactly how it works — and in Arkansas, that workforce starts in places like SAU Tech's aviation program in Camden. From the classroom to the sky. Arkansas aerospace is built from the ground up.
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Another week of the BYA Flight Academy at KSUZ is in the books and the questions are getting good! Students are getting hands-on exposure to aviation through experiences that go far beyond the classroom. This is what investing in Arkansas's next generation looks like.
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That's what aerospace and defense jobs pay in Arkansas on average annually.
It reflects the precision, the training, and the standard this industry holds its workforce to. Over 3,000 Arkansans meet that standard every day.
#ARisAerospace #ArkansasAerospace #ArkansasMade
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What takes decades to build can't be replicated overnight.
Arkansas's aerospace and defense industry is built on experience, expertise, and a commitment to what's next.
#ARisAerospace #Aerospace #DefenseIndustry #ArkansasEconomy
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There are 190 aerospace and defense companies operating in Arkansas right now. Not clustered in one city. Not concentrated in one corridor. Spread across the Natural State — building, maintaining, and shipping products that reach markets around the world.
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Aviation careers don't begin in a cockpit or on a factory floor—they begin with curiosity.
This week, the Bryant Youth Association Flight Academy gives students a chance to explore the world of flight, aerospace, and the opportunities that exist right here in Arkansas!
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Arkansas shipped $950 million in A&D products in 2024. Not raw materials. Not agricultural goods.
Precision-machined components, aerospace-grade parts - built by skilled workers in communities across this state and shipped to programs around the world.
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Most people think of Arkansas and picture agriculture. Rice fields. Timber. Poultry.
What they don’t picture is nearly $1 billion in aerospace and defense exports leaving this state every year, reaching markets around the world.
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Some gave everything so the rest of us could have anything. This #MemorialDay, we remember them.
#HonorTheFallen
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SAU Tech has been training Arkansas's aerospace and defense workforce since 1968. Not as a stepping stone. Not as a backup plan. As the deliberate, long-term investment of a state that understood what this industry could become.
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Behind every export figure and market projection is something more fundamental - the companies, the bases, and the classrooms that make it all possible.
Arkansas has 190 A&D companies and 35 educational institutions actively training the next generation of industry workers.
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Arkansas aerospace and defense products don't stay in Arkansas.
From precision components to missile systems to maintained and overhauled aircraft — the work being done across this state ships to markets on every continent.
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10,000 workers. 190 companies. Over $1.3 billion in goods exported. Arkansas didn't stumble into aerospace and defense, it built it.
The Arkansas Aerospace & Defense Alliance exists to grow that foundation and make sure the Natural State gets the recognition it's earned.
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The global aerospace and defense market sits at $847 billion today. By 2030, it's projected to cross $1.18 trillion, growing at 7.1% annually. Arkansas exported $950 million in aerospace and defense products in 2024 alone.
The demand is there and Arkansas is ready to meet it.
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Since 2010, Arkansas has added more than 10,000 aerospace and defense jobs - generating nearly $4.5 billion in total economic output and paying workers an average wage of over $72,000 a year. That's not a pipeline. That's a foundation.
#ARisAerospace #Aerospace #DefenseIndustry
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Arkansas Aerospace retweeted
Beyond just doubling in one year, Air Force munitions spending is poised to grow nearly eightfold in the 2020s, according to OMB’s projections.
MORE: airandspaceforces.com/pentag…
#AirForce #Airman
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Great to see USAF Chief of Staff General Ken Wilsbach and CMSAF David Wolfe visiting Arkansas to see the outstanding work Airmen at Ebbing ANGB in Fort Smith are doing. #Arkansas #Aerospace #ArkansasGuard aetc.af.mil/News/Photos/igph…
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Excited for AADA Member Company @DassaultFalcon and can't wait to see their new jet!
#Falcon10X #AADA
A perfect show, a perfect moment... watch the video of the #Falcon10X unveiling, new top of the line Falcon.
dassault-aviation.tv/dassaul…
Retrouvez la vidéo "#DassaultAviation dévoile le #Falcon 10X"
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And Little Rock Air Force Base is home of the Mighty Herk!
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Arkansas Aerospace retweeted
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Proud to deliver this advanced technology our forces need to fight and win!
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U.S. Army High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) provide unrivaled deep-strike capability in combat against the Iranian regime.
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