TOP IMAGE:Artist’s rendering of an Antares launch

from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS). First launch is slated for 2012.

•Increase in general funds for the Higher Ed Equipment Trust Fund debt service to support research at the SCHEV-recommended level of $13 million in FY 14.

•Funding increases for STEM-related K-12 education initiatives.

•Senator Mark Warner in the Advanced Composites Initiative accelerating timelines to bring innovative composite materials/structures to market.

•The Virginia Congressional delegation in development of a Mid-Atlantic Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) test range over the Hampton Roads, Southern Maryland and Eastern Shore region.

•The Governor’s budget request for the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, including one-time funding of $4 million for launch pad improvements in FY 13.

•The necessary capital and operations investment in the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority/Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport to turn the Spaceport into a truly multi-use facility to attract new customers. •Sustained funding to the Virginia Space Grant Consortium for Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars Program as requested in the Governor’s budget.

•Creation of the Virginia Space Research Center in Hampton Roads to provide research and development with space industry in support of commercial space enterprise.

•Higher education funding proposed in the Governor’s budget for STEM education, high tech research, STEM retention and economic development related to Top Jobs legislation.

Aerospace – Virginia’s High Tech Economic and Jobs EngineA E R O S PA C E D A YVirginia’s Aerospace Sector Asks Policy Makers to Support:

“The new Advanced Composite Materials and Manufacturing Initiative has the potential to revolutionize the development of innovative aerospace products and dramatically accelerate the time to market.”

Charlie Harris, Director of Research, NASA Langley Research Center

-316 firms at 415 unique locations1

-$7.6 billion in economic impact for aerospace1; $28.8 billion for aviation2

-28,110 aerospace jobs from direct impact and ripple effects for aerospace1 plus 259,000 aviation sector jobs2

-Average annual wage of $99,385 compared to $48,334 for all Virginia industries1

-$11.1 billion in aviation wages2 -Aerospace companies and employees paid an estimated $57.5 million in state tax revenue (corporate and personal)1

-Each aerospace job in Virginia supports 2.11 additional jobs elsewhere in the state1

-Aerospace contributed 1.9% to Virginia’s gross state product while utilizing only 0.8% of total employment in the state1

-$1.3 billion in NASA funding to Virginia in 20113

-One of four states with an operational commercial spaceport capable of launching satellites to orbit

-Virginia is home to the largest commercial satellite manufacturing facility east of the Mississippi at Orbital facilities in Dulles, Va.

-Home to two NASA facilities – NASA Langley Research Center and NASA Wallops Flight Facility with combined economic impact of:4,5

1) $1.2 billion that supported 10,700 jobs in Virginia 2)$637.5 million in NASA funding for major procurements to Virginia businesses and universities6

-Home to national security facilities involved in aerospace research and technology, including Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Reconnaissance Office, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Space Office

AEROSPACE IN VIRGINIA

“Virginia’s aviation and space industry is expected to need at least 12,283 new workers over the next 10 years.” Source: Virginia Aviation and Space State of the Workforce, Performance Management Group, Virginia Commonwealth University for the Virginia Department of Aviation, 2012.

-Virginia’s military aerospace industry has over 26,000 uniformed, civilian and contract employees1

-Virginia ranks first in the nation for U.S. DOD prime contracts ($48.5 billion in FY 11)3

-Virginia’s universities offer outstanding engineering, science and technology education and research. Virginia Tech is sixth in the nation for engineering degrees awarded and tenth for bachelor’s degrees in Aerospace.7 University of Virginia leads the National Hypersonic Science Center, a 5-year, $10M research program with multiple partners

-Home to the National Institute of Aerospace and Virginia Space Grant Consortium, robust organizations promoting science and engineering education, workforce development and research

-Additional Aviation Statistics: 1) 66 public-use airports including Reagan and Dulles2

2)14,500 pilots and 5,800 FAA registered General Aviation aircraft2

3) NASA Wallops Flight Facility has a research airport

(1)Impact Analysis, Prepared by Performance Management Group, Virginia Commonwealth University, in partnership with Chmura Economics and Analytics, LLC. November 2010.(2)Virginia Airport System Economic Impact Study. 2011(3)Federal Awards by State in 2011. www.USASpending.gov. January 2012.(4)NASA Langley Research Center based on work by Chmura Economics & Analytics, Richmond, VA, company retained to assess Langley’s direct and indirect economic impact.(5)Data provided by Office of the Director, Wallops Flight Facility.(6)NASA Acquisition Internet Service Procurement Data website: http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/npdv/usmap02.cgi.(7)American Society for Engineering Education. Profiles and Data Book. 2010.

Top image: Governor Bob McDonnell is given an overview of the integration process at NASA Wallops Flight Facility of Orbital Sciences’ Antares launch vehicle which will begin carrying supplies to the International Space Station in 2012. Opposite page images from left to right: 1) Rolls-Royce’s advanced manufacturing facility opened in May 2011 in Prince George, Va.; 2) A Rolls-Royce Crosspointe Rotatives factory team member manufactures discs for a V2500 engine and some of the company’s newest civil aerospace engines including The Trent 1000 for the Boeing 787 Dream-liner; 3) Virginia Tech and University of Victory students prepare a miniature Joined-Wing Sensor Craft for flight testing;

“[The] overarching goal is to make Wallops Island the premier spaceport in America that attracts aerospace companies and high paying jobs that in turn fuels economic growth.”Source: Virginia Commercial Space Flight

Authority: Governance, Organization and

Competitive Landscape Review, November

2011. KPMG.

NASA/Wallops Flight Facility – The nation’s premiere site for management and conduct of suborbital and

small orbital missions, and NASA’s only launch range.

MARS (Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport) – A commercial spaceport under the Virginia Commercial

Space Flight Authority and one of four US Spaceports licensed by the FAA to launch rockets into orbit.

During 2012, NASA/Wallops and MARS will launch:-11 suborbital missions supporting space science, technology development, and education.

-Virginia-based Orbital’s Antares rocket. The first launch is targeted for the first half of 2012. The Antares will provide

supplies to the International Space Station using the Cygnus vehicle that will rendezvous and berth with the Interna-

tional Space Station.

NASA Langley Research Center – A global leader in research and technology with concept to flight facili-

ties and expertise to solve the tough problems for any aerospace project… at any airspeed from launch to landing.

Space Tourism – The Virginia Tourism Corporation is leading efforts with the hospitality industry and its

counterparts in Maryland and Delaware to develop a marketing plan to promote “space’’ tourism throughout the

Delmarva Peninsula and Hampton Roads region. Building on existing tourism marketing plans and assets, Wallops

and MARS will add to an already exciting, educational and interesting portfolio of activities for Virginia’s visitors.

VIRGINIA’S GATEWAY TO SPACE:

“Aerospace is a technology priority in the Commonwealth Research and Technology Strategic Roadmap.”Source: Center for Innovative Technology

“Establishing an Atlantic Unmanned Aerial Systems test range will provide Virginia aerospace companies a means to reduce time-to-market for key UAV technologies in a highly competitive marketplace.” Carl G. Schaefer, Jr., Director, Small UAS

Programs Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation

4) Langley Aerospace Research Student Scholars Intern, Ami Patel, conducts research; 5) Artist’s rendering of Orbital’s Cygnus spacecraft approaching the International Space Station; 6) NASA’s Horizontal Integration Facility; 7) Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars Alyssa Rumsey, Jadyne Turner, Jackie Harris and Andrea Beale (clockwise from top left) show off their Mars surface exploration robotic rovers. 8) Aurora Flight Sciences, headquartered in Manassas, provides high performing and logistically efficient Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) to provide first-hand intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for pop-up and fleeting threats.

-$1.5 million in FY 11 funding for the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority and Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.

-Exemption from Virginia’s sales tax for customers of the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority’s commercial spaceport MARS.

-Matching funding for the Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars program enabling more than 400 high school juniors each year from across the state to participate in the program, which includes a NASA-based online course and intensive NASA Summer Academy providing 4 college credits.

Thank you, Policy Makers, for Your Support and Advocacy of Aerospace in the Commonwealth:

-R&D tax credit for qualified research and development experiences related to university research.

-$10 million in research/commercialization funding 1) $4 million to Center for Innovative Technology for “gap” funding; 2) $6 million for Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund.

-$15 million to higher education institutions for research. -Top Jobs legislation with goals of: 1) Increasing college degree attainment in the Commonwealth, especially in STEM high-demand, high-income fields; 2) Calling on the Secretaries of Education and Finance to create a STEM public-private partnership; 3) Creating a Higher Education Advisory Committee to advise SCHEV on increasing STEM degree production and research, including regional and public private collaboration.

Images from top to bottom: 1) Orbital’s Dulles, Va. Satellite Manufacturing Facility (SMF) is one of the most modern in the world and is designed to produce high-reliability commercial communications and broadcasting satellites, Earth and space science spacecraft, national defense satellites and deep-space spacecraft; 2) Funding for the new Research and Innovation Laboratories at the National Institute of Aerospace was provided by the General Assembly in 2008. The Laboratories will open in February 2012; 3) The 18,000-pound Orion test article makes a splash into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA Langley’s historic Landing and Impact Research Facility. Each of the nine Orion tests simulated different conditions and provided more data toward a future where the next deep space exploration vehicle will carry astronauts into space, provide emergency abort capability, and ensure safe re-entry and landing.