The Virginia Aerospace Business Roundtable is now being organized with the assistance of the Virginia Areospace Advisory Council appointed by Governor Tim Kaine last year. The group hopes to attract corporate, academic, and individual members from throughout the state interested in aerospace-related business.
The aerospace business sector is not now organized as a business group in the mid-Atlantic state despite billions of federal dollars expended by NASA Wallops, NASA Langley and several USAF and Navy military-related facilities. But change is on the way.
Aerospace Days will be held February 4 and 5, 2009 in Richmond to market the sector to the Virginia General Assembly legislators while endeavoring to organize the Virginia Aerospace Business Roundtable similar to that in Maryland. Readers interested in participating should contact this Blogger via e-mail or cell.
Interest has expanded in Virginia aerospace following orbital launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport and the planned re-supply missions to be launched from Wallops Island in late 2010 by Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation. The Legislature has passed studies and commercial space flight legislation in 2007 and 2008 including a multi-million dollar bonds issue to build a new commercial launch pad in 2009.
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