Challenges for the 2001-2002 Season

VOLUME 25 July 2001 NUMBER 6 Challenges for the 2001-2002 Season

Chairman’s Commentary:  Add new subjects of interest in the Phoenix Section newsletter. I first would like to thank Keith Jenkin’s lead and  Increase attendance at our monthly section support as our Chair of the Phoenix Section this past meetings by providing a variety of interesting year. speakers and subjects.

As your newly elected section Chair I’m looking The success we have in meeting these goals and forward to providing our section with some objectives depends on the resources and time we challenging goals and objectives in the coming year. have. I’m sure we have members with some great I’m sure there have been times that some of you ask talent that could make a great difference to our yourself why you are or continue being a member of section and I welcome and encourage your support. AIAA. The greatest satisfaction would be to hear our membership say that being a member of AIAA has As the year progresses I hope that between the been rewarding and is a valuable resource to your Phoenix section of AIAA and the national AIAA profession. organization that we will provide you with value added activities and programs that demonstrates the Can we improve the value of being an AIAA advantages of being an AIAA member. member? I definitely think so. I have a saying “Nothing is impossible, difficult maybe, but not Remember your feedback in important to us if we are impossible”. to improve or develop new activities. If you have suggestions or complaints please contact anyone of It’s obvious our lives are being affected every day by your section officers or local AIAA company changes brought about by technology, business representative. mergers and personal demands, etc.. Professional organizations also need change to meet members In closing I want to thank those members who have needs. Your Phoenix section of AIAA this past year volunteered to become elected section officers and has been evaluating what its role should be in the others who have volunteered to fill other supporting its professional members. In search for positions in the Phoenix section. Currently the some of these answers, the section sent out a survey Membership Chair position is vacant and we would to all section members last year. The responses we very much like to fill this as soon as possible. Don’t received back from the survey provided some worry, we don’t bite, and you have a good staff for valuable information that we’ll be using to develop support. Please contact me or any of the section strategies and direction in the coming year. officers if you are interested in the Vice Chair position. You will be experiencing some of the following changes as we strive to meet new goals and Sincerely, objectives: Ron Roden, Chair Phoenix Section of AIAA  Provide an electronic newsletter instead of paper to members who want it.  Develop and provide some educational classes (no cost or very low cost).

Phoenix Section AIAA Newsletter July 2001 Page 1 Sky's the Limit for Tucson Sally Spray, director of the Arizona Department of Aerospace Sector Commerce's international trade and investment division. By Alan D. Fischer, Arizona Daily Star April 29, 2001, Reprinted with permission Arizona aerospace companies produced $7.5 billion Increased national defense spending and strong in products and parts in 1999. And the state's demand for small aircraft should mean a high-flying international aerospace exports of $1.1 billion last future for local aerospace companies. President year ranked seventh among U.S. states. Washington - George W. Bush has pledged support for a national home of Boeing Co., which may soon leave the state missile defense system. And despite a waning for a new corporate home in Denver, Dallas or economy, sales of private and regional aircraft Chicago - led the way with $19.8 billion, followed by remain strong as more companies buy private jets and California, Texas, New York, Florida and Kansas. more commercial airlines buy smaller planes. Both "In terms of hard dollars and economic impact, they those factors spell good news for Tucson companies lead the way," said John Grabo, interim president of such as Raytheon Missile Systems, which the Greater Tucson Economic Council. manufactures weapons for the U.S. government and other clients and is a key player in developing a Metro Tucson is home to about half the state's national missile defense program; Bombardier aerospace workers, many of them working for major Aerospace, where local workers finish the interiors of industry players such as Raytheon, Bombardier, business jets; and CO Guardian LLC, which Honeywell, Sargent Controls & Aerospace and manufactures cockpit carbon-monoxide detectors. Universal Avionics. Combined, those five companies account for 13,643 local jobs, according to the 2000 Factor in Tucson's reputation within the industry as a Star 200 listing of area employers. Also important business-friendly city, its pleasant weather and its are the smaller local firms providing components, many programs to train skilled aerospace workers, services and technologies for the giants. "You have a and local aerospace companies are poised for growth, number of large firms at the top, and many suppliers said Tony Velocci, senior business editor at Aviation supporting them," said GTEC's Grabo. "One of our Week & Space Technology magazine. "In my mind, big focuses is the local supply-chain development: that would position Tucson, Arizona, as a place to understanding what is needed by our aerospace attract additional investment by the aerospace companies and filling those needs locally," Pagnucco industry," Velocci said. said.

That growth - fueled in part by a challenge from Mayor Walkup, a retired executive from Hughes Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup to create 10,000 new Missile Systems Co., now part of Raytheon, has jobs in the next seven years - would build on an made aerospace a top priority. Just days after taking already strong local industry. The Tucson area boasts office, he told industry officials he wanted more 80 local aerospace firms with 21,126 employees, activity here. "I laid down an objective: 'I challenge according to the 2000 Aerospace Directory published you guys to come up with 10,000 new aerospace by the state Department of Commerce. The directory jobs,' " said Walkup, former chairman of the local lists 206 Arizona companies. aerospace cluster and past chairman of the Greater Tucson Economic Council. "We're looking for the Local industry revenues topped $1.1 billion last year, future strategic relocation of major aerospace up 53 percent from 1999. Add in the 45 local companies." Walkup said he believes his goal of companies that offer support services such as adding 10,000 aerospace jobs is attainable through software design and precision machining, and total continued expansion at existing companies and the annual sales soar to more than $4 billion, with a attraction of new operations here. "The aerospace payroll of nearly $1 billion, said Steve Pagnucco, co- industry is an enormous wealth producer to a chair of the local aerospace cluster and general community because of high wages and high values," manager of the manufacturing division at Universal Walkup said. "It can have a dramatic change on the Avionics Systems Corp. Workers for those economic prosperity of a community." companies earned an average of $57,476 in 1999 - 82 percent higher than the state's average wage, said Local groups are working to promote and grow the local aerospace industry. GTEC's Grabo said his

Phoenix Section AIAA Newsletter July 2001 Page 2 agency is actively recruiting new companies. The Commerce study released in February. Walkup said state Commerce Department will take local firms to Tucson's aerospace activity - a mix of defense, exhibit at the Paris Air Show June 17-24, Spray said. commercial and general aviation - is broad-based Participants will be able to connect with new enough to remain strong, even if some industry international business partners and customers. segments slow. "It's very healthy - and getting Tucson's aerospace cluster has been around for about healthier," Walkup said. a decade, but is ramping up efforts to ensure the business climate helps the industry thrive and grow. This Newsletter is Going Digital "It's a rapidly maturing cluster, the one that's come together as fast or faster than any in recent memory," Your Phoenix Section of AIAA is about to begin a Grabo said. "It's going to help us attract companies, new fiscal year and we are planning to make some it's going to help us start companies, and it's going to changes that we feel will be valuable to you, our help us grow companies already here." members. Walkup said the aerospace cluster focused early on retaining and growing companies already here. That Starting this Fall, the Section newsletter is going to came to light in the early 1990s when Hughes be delivered electronically. A hardcopy/paper version acquired General Dynamics' missile systems division, will be provided if you tell us you want one. Our giving the company the option of consolidating assumption will be that if we have an e-mail address operations in Tucson or in California. The cluster for you, that is how you will receive this newsletter helped draft legislation for a state income-tax credit (in PDF format) unless we hear otherwise. If you for new job creation that helped sway the decision to want to continue receiving a hardcopy/paper move California operations here, Walkup said. That newsletter via the mail and/or both (electronically resulted in 6,000 new jobs that boosted Tucson's and mail) please reply back to us. economy, he said. I'm sure most of you can understand why the section Through the various efforts to grow the local wants to deliver the newsletter electronically. It will industry, aerospace seems poised to help the local save valuable funds, labor, delivery will be faster, economy soar. Arizona aerospace exports have seen and using the electronic media will provide the strong growth in recent years, Spray said, and now opportunity for you, the member, to communicate make up a significant portion of the state's exports. back. This is a significant change and will be a lot of The state's international exports in the aircraft and work for some of us. spacecraft category grew from $821 million in 1998 to $1.1 billion in 2000, and arms and ammunition Keep Up with the AIAA Phoenix Section on the Web: exports jumped from $109 million in 1998 to $244 million in 2000, she said. Statewide, aerospace businesses totaled 450 in 1999, up 94 percent from http://www.pr.erau.edu/~aiaa-az/ 232 in 1998, according to an Arizona Department of Welcome New Members

The Phoenix Section would like to welcome these new members and folks who have transferred in from other sections during May and June. We’d love to see you at an upcoming dinner meeting. May June Dr. Khaled K. Hassan Honeywell Inc Mr. Akif O Bolukbasi Boeing Mr. Mark N. Heflin Dr. Wen Tong TRW Mr. Charles J. Kappenstein Fac. of Sciences Robert Given ECIII Katherine V. Kelly US Army Prov Gnds Students Rilla M Pena US Army Prov Gnds Mr. Thomas B. Apker U of Notre Dame Scott T. Yee Boeing Mr. Bryan E. Falman ERAU Mr. Olovier Forget ERAU Students Mr. Erwin Sulaeman Virginia Tech Ms Geraldine Fritsch ERAU Mr. Jeff A. Mueller Univ of Notre Dame Mr. Samuel E. Stime ERAU

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Organizational Representatives

Honeywell Engines & Systems Liz Lieber 602-231-2815 Upcoming Section Events Honeywell Joe Vecera 602-822-3251 Lockheed Martin Section Council Meeting, Sat., August 18 Ken Van Meter 623-925-7239 Section Council meeting for all officers and Spectrum Astro interested members. TO be held at Mike Mike Mackowski 480-892-8200 Mackowski’s home in Gilbert. Breakfast will be Motorola - CGISS (Roosevelt) served at 9 am! RSVP. Doug Hill 480-441-8118 Boeing Helicopters Moutaz Helwani 480-891-6330 September Dinner Meeting Computer Access LLC Keith Jenkins 480-706-8317 A dinner meeting held sometime in mid to late Orbital Sciences September. We don’t have a date or speaker Scott Schoneman 480-814-6688 set right now, but stay tuned and we’ll have Arizona State University another newsletter and e-mail announcement Valana Wells 480-965-4777 Embry-Riddle University prior to the meeting. We’ll also plan to David Lanning 520-708-3930 recognize members with notable AIAA Northern Arizona University membership anniversaries. Tom Acker 520-523-8363 Tucson Section Kevin Kremeyer 520-882-7349

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