Future Growth in Defense for Northeast IndianaLilly Endowment Inc. will provide $20 million to an affiliate of the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne to accelerate the development of northeast Indiana's workforce and talent resources. The Talent Initiative will develop education, training and talent initiatives in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The program -- an unprecedented collaboration in Northeast Indiana -- will better prepare the region's workforce to capture the high- quality job opportunities available in the near term and those of the future.
Components of the Talent Initiative include support for the following critical initiatives:
. Retraining at least 1,200 adult workers in Northeast Indiana over the next three years
. Enhancement of the Advanced Manufacturing program at Ivy Tech - Northeast
. Expansion of the systems engineering and wireless technology programs at Indiana University-Purdue University- Fort Wayne (IPFW)
. Creation of New Tech High Schools within school corporations in northeast Indiana, with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses
The Talent Initiative includes significant and targeted educational and workforce programs for the aerospace and defense industries. One immediate goal is to prepare workers to assume more than 4,000 projected new and replacement jobs in these industries. The programs also will be relevant to the workforce development needs of other advanced manufacturing sectors in northeast Indiana. Northeast Indiana is home to over 160 defense/aerospace prime contractors and suppliers. During 2005 and 2006 the six largest firms in this sector received a total of $2 billion in prime contracts from the Department of Defense.
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