Professional Aerospace Contractors Association of New Mexico (PACA NM)

All—-if you were a BFI attendee with did not receive the download link for the charts in the last couple of days, please message us here. Again, you must have been a registered BFI attendee and able to receive the sometimes-CUI or limited distribution material.

Please join us for our monthly luncheon next week, October 17th at the Albuquerque Country Club, 601 Laguna Blvd SW. The deadline to register is this Friday, October 11th at 2pm! Our program speaker is Mr. Roberto Acosta, the Small Business Director of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) where he will discuss “Business Opportunities with the AFNWC”. Link to register is in the first comment.

To my colleagues with recruiting and hiring needs in New Mexico: Through Professional Aerospace Contractors Association of New Mexico (PACA NM), I am building a public/private coalition of aerospace government organizations and private aerospace companies who have challenges in recruiting and hiring mid-to-senior level staff. (In other words, this is not about growing a STEM pipeline which is being handled by other efforts.) I’m calling this the Technical-talent Recruiting for Aerospace Coalition, or TRAC for short. This coalition is led by PACA, and co-sponsored by the Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance, the SpaceValley Foundation, and NewSpace Nexus. The TRAC campaign endeavors to: -Identify the full range of aerospace entities with recruiting and hiring needs in New Mexico, -Leverage substantial work already done by AREA to assist coalition members with top, pro-New Mexico recruiting materials, -Work with the SpaceValley Foundation on help with recruiting packages supported by NM hospitality and other industries in the state to attract talent for select, senior positions, -Launch a comprehensive study with the support of AREA and their existing access to national talent databases to understand demographics and labor markets as they pertain to the talent needs of the coalition, -Target the identified out-of-state talent markets with a pro-New Mexico advertising campaign, and -Culminate in a hybrid virtual and in-person hiring fair in 2025. I am working closely with the above sponsors to get a more accurate projection of what: 1. Is already paid for/done/in work 2. What we could collectively get additional state funds to pay for, and 3. What cost-sharing might be needed from coalition members. (So there are some unknowns at this time.) The QR code below will take you to a very short Google form survey. I am asking interested parties to complete the 5-question survey to indicate interest to guide my conversations with the other sponsors. More details can be found in the slides at the link in the first comment. I look forward to your feedback!

Aaaand that’s a wrap! Thank you to all our speakers for Day 3 of the PACA BFI!

PACA BFI Day 2 in the books! Andy Williams James Bieryla Dena Crain, CLCS, MLIS, CRIS Monica Hilbert Gabe Mounce Walt Ugalde Mary Burke

Day one of the 36th Annual PACA BFI is in the books! Thank you to all our wonderful speakers today. See y’all at Day 2 tomorrow!

THANK YOU to all who came out to play in our PACA BFI golf tournament today! Much fun was had by all. Congrats to Redwire Space for their first place win, Berger Briggs Insurance and Risk Solutions Inc coming in second, and Northrop Grumman coming in third! Well done!!!

Happening now at Sandia Resort & Casino golf course! All for STEM education! And what a beautiful day for golf! New Mexico’s weather is unmatched in terms of blue skies, perfect temps and no humidity!

Come join our partners NewSpace Nexus and their Ignitor companies at a pre-BFI pitch event this afternoon!

Did you know that we have the Director of Small Business Programs for the Air Force (Mr. Scott Kiser) as our special lunch speaker during the Tuesday lunch session at the BFI? You can only come if you’ve registered….so if you haven’t yet signed up, there’s still time!