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Southern Arizona is home to:
Four major military bases
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200 aerospace-defense firms
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50,000 aerospace-defense-military jobs
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370 miles of the U.S./Mexico border, 8 ports of 
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entry, 32.8 million crossings annually
Targeted Industry Sectors:
Aerospace-Defense
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Information Technology
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Border Security
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Logistics
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IFA Promising Practices
 Regional Knowledge Xchange (ReX)
Regional Board and Partner SummitsIFA ReX platform
Partner-maintained content
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Collaboration work space and tools
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IFA Industrial Needs Survey
Web-based application
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Secure login for company-identifiable information
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“Visitor” login allows stakeholders to review
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aggregate data
WIRED Participant Tracking System
Supports common-measures reporting
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Tracks outcomes by industry and career path
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Idea Xchange
Social networking platform for sharing
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entrepreneurial resources and leads
TALENT • ENTREPRENEURSHIP • COLLABORATION
IFA Vision…
… the region is a center of excellence for homeland securityand advanced technology,capitalizing on its border proximityand the shared economic strengthof one of the nation’s premier aerospace-defense clusters. Ahome-grown talent base meets thedemands of aerospace and defenseand supports the emergence of other advanced industries.
 
IFA Contact:
Dorothée HarmonWIRED project manager (520) 243-6760dorothee.harmon@pima.govPima County One Stop2797 E. Ajo WayTucson, Arizona 85713
LOGISTICSCURRENT12-MONTH GROWTHINFORMATION TECHNOLOGYCURRENT12-MONTH GROWTHAEROSPACE DEFENSECURRENT12-MONTH GROWTH
IFA Results
Pima County One Stop
staff worked with SargentControls and Aerospace to create an Assembly Productiontraining program with Pima Community College. Trainingwill be held at Sargent Controls for groups of 8 – 10workers, with lab work woven into the training. The trainingwill be articulated and shared as part of the IFA RegionalCareer Ladder. The career ladder mapped by SargentControls moves from: 1. Entry Level Worker; 2. AssemblyProduction Worker; 3. Hydraulic Tech/Quality Tech; 4.Test Tech/Quality Assurance Tech/Mechanical Test Tech;5. Cell Leader; 6. Manufacturing Floor Line Supervisors.The company is providing a 50% in-kind match in trainingspace, equipment and employee wages while in training.
Funding: Innovation Frontier Arizona is funded by a $5 million WIRED grant and a $2 million Community Based Job Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The IFA partners have identified an
additional $8 million in expected leveraged resources. This is an equal opportunity employment program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.
The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship
at theUniversity of Arizona piloted IdeaFair April-May 2009.This K-12 entrepreneurship curriculum uses the sciencefair model to equip students to identify a problem theycare about, decide who is impacted by the problem,forecast and test a possible solution to the problem, andcommunicate the results. Six teachers and 89 studentsparticipated in the pilot, using teacher guides, studentworkbooks and teaching aides developed by McGuirebased on regional surveys. Pilot outcomes will beassessed and a plan to merge into the school year will bedeveloped during summer 2009.
IFA Success Stories
Regional Career Ladder 
Articulated career ladders in Engineering,
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Information Technology and Aerospace70 companies, 3 community colleges, 1 university
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STEM Education
High school model pre-engineering program
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30 online courses for K-8 teachers in science
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and math
Border Security
55 companies surveyed
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Pre-academy developed with Border Patrol
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and Customs$2 million grant awarded for training in
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Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Entrepreneurship
15 business educators trained in regional
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entrepreneurship curriculumFour K-12 schools are piloting IdeaFair 
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youth entrepreneurship curriculum
IFA INDUSTRYWORKFORCE
NEEDS
SURVEY
 
Strategies
1. Create Arkansas Delta WIRED Academy2. Through partnerships, create:
 
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Alternative fuel training and education capacity 
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Transportation, distribution, and logistics center of excellence 
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Expansion of advanced manufacturing infrastructure
3. Expand education infrastructure4. Establish entrepreneurship system5. Expand workforce development system
As illustrated in
Figure 1
, the workforce development modelis driven by continuous industry input and feedback and acontinuous trained worker pipeline. This includes three major resource pools for workforce talent development:
• Industry Training and re-training of existing workers• Workforce Investment System Unskilled and dislocated
workers
• ADTEC Secondary Technical Centers High school students
Workforce Development Model
The Arkansas Delta Training and Education Consortium(ADTEC) provides for a coordinated, regional responseto workforce development in the Arkansas Delta and isthe education and training arm of ADWIRED. ADTEC is apartnership of five community colleges: Arkansas NortheasternCollege, Blytheville; Arkansas State University – Newport;East Arkansas Community College, Forrest City; Mid-SouthCommunity College, West Memphis; and Phillips CommunityCollege of the University of Arkansas, Helena.
Business & Industry Demand-Driven Workforce Development
Business & IndustryBusiness & Industry
ADTEC
Job CompetenciesExisting WorkersHigh SchoolStudentsUnskilled &DislocatedWorkers Trained WorkforceK-12 Systemand Secondary Technical CentersWorkforceInvestmentSystem &One-StopCenters
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A Career Pathway provides a career-specific seamless
educational continuum that consists of multiple entry/exit
points and credential attainment levels (certificate of proficiency, technical certificate, associate degree, andbaccalaureate degree).
 
2. Center of Excellence in Renewable Energy TechnologyEducation (CERETE)3. Transportation Technology Center 4. ADTEC University Center 5. Minority Contractor Training Model6. Workforce Development Counselors
Results of WIRED Region
1. Career Pathway Model
Figure 2 
illustrates the Career Pathway model that is embeddedas part of the ADTEC Workforce Development Model. ADTEChas developed Career Pathways in Advanced Manufacturing;Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics; and Renewable
Energy Technology.
Bachelor of Applied Science DegreeAssociate of AppliedScience DegreeHigh School Graduation11th GradeCertificate ofProficiency
Recruiting and mentoring activites
9th Grade
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