LA Chapter July 20 Meeting

“Ensuring Future A&D Competitiveness”

As A&D customers outsource more assembly, engineering, and supply chain management, having access to qualified engineers is becoming critical to long-term survival of an A&D supplier. However, for many reasons there is a significant lack of such candidates in the US, which could lead to serious competitive disadvantages of US A&D companies versus international suppliers.

This month’s LA chapter meeting focuses on how to interest and inspire current and future generations in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Please join us in Los Angeles on Friday, July 20, 2012, 7:30 am – 9:00 am when Elizabeth Kennick, Project Manager, Teachers in Space, Space Frontier Foundation, will discuss the present situation and what we can do as individuals and A&D companies to help turn things around. David Knight will show sections of an upcoming documentary about the Space Shuttle that will excite the public, and especially our youth, in aerospace and STEM.

The meeting is free, but RSVP’s in advance to Ivan Rosenberg are required to attend.

The Los Angeles chapter of The Aerospace & Defense Forum was founded by Frontier Associates and the 62 Mile Club, and is sponsored by Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Mitchell, Moss Adams, Boyle, Ogata, Bregman, and Cal Poly Pomona.