Mississippi rising

300+ companies within 200 miles in space; defense; aviation; and maintenance repair, and overhaul (MRO)

Gulf Coast

Home to one of the nation’s highest concentrations of avionics/aircraft maintenance personnel

Stennis Space Center

America’s largest rocket and engine test complex

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) manufacturing

• Aurora Flight Sciences
• Northrop Grumman Unmanned Systems
• Stark Aerospace

Research & Development (R&D)

Mississippi State University

• Raspet Flight Research Laboratory
• Materials design, testing, fabrication
• Flight test instrumentation, test assistance
• UAV engine performance testing
• Hardware/software integration
• Aerospace Engineering degrees
• Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems
• Helping businesses improve engineering, manufacturing, design technologies
• Simulation/experimentation of aerospace materials

University of Mississippi

• Center for Manufacturing Excellence
• Degree in manufacturing engineering
• Research facilities
• Co-op, extension programs

University of Southern Mississippi

• Mississippi Polymer Institute
• Composites, advanced materials, polymers, plastics

Redstone Arsenal

• United State Army missile, missile defense, aviation programs, helicopter research
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Sources: www.mississippi.org; www.tapintoindustry.com; www.workforcems.org; http://economicdevelopment.mississippipower.com/industries/aerospace-defense