Arkansas Aerospace

The Arkansas #Aerospace & #Defense Alliance is dedicated to advancing the industry & training a qualified workforce.

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Two Arkansas Aerospace & Defense Alliance members are in the running for "Coolest Thing Made in Arkansas": Game Aerospace's GB1-GameBird and Ozark Integrated Circuits' UV-100 XNode.

Both are built right here in the state, and both deserve your vote. Voting closes July 10.

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Today's students are tomorrow's innovators, pilots, engineers, and industry leaders.

Hear why AADA Executive Director Chad Causey believes investing in the next generation is essential to the future of #ArkansasAerospace.

#ARisAerospace #NextGenAerospace #ArkansasEconomy

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L3Harris is hiring in Arkansas. Stop by SAU Tech Student Center this Friday, June 26, to talk careers, ask questions, and see what building the future actually looks like!

#ARisAerospace #ArkansasAerospace #HiringEvent

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Two AADA members made the Coolest Thing Made in Arkansas Super 16! 🎉
🛰️ UV-100 XNode — Ozarks Integrated Circuits
✈️ GB1 GameBird — Game Composites

Different matchups = vote for BOTH. Ballot closes July 10:
👉 https://t.co/XQwzN1Yhyd
#CoolestThingAR

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Most people don't know Arkansas had a major role in early American aviation. Eberts Field in Lonoke was one of the most significant training fields the U.S. Army maintained during World War I.

A century later, that legacy is still being written.
📸: Courtesy of Johnnie Bransford

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Precision in aerospace manufacturing is a requirement, not a talking point. One miscalculation at the wrong moment can mean the difference between a part that works and one that doesn't.

That's the standard Arkansas's A&D workforce is trained to meet, every single day.

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There's no room for error in aerospace manufacturing. CNC machining turns raw material into precision parts. This is what skilled work looks like in Arkansas.

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Precision isn't an aspiration at Arcturus Aerospace, it's the standard.

Based in Little Rock, Arcturus Aerospace is an AS9100D-certified CNC precision manufacturer producing machined parts for aircraft manufacturers to the strictest quality tolerances in the industry.

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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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$73k+
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.

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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.

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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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