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Legislative Budget Committee Meeting Thursday,
November 8, 2007 Jim Walters Cessna Aircraft
Company
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Aviation Industry and Jobs

• The World View
• 1985 U.S. had nearly 80 of aerospace sales
• Today 60 of sales still the largest
• Global competition
• Canada, Mexico, Brazil, European Union, Russia,
  Japan and China

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Kansas Aviation Industry

• The State View
• Kansas is the Aviation Cluster for research and
  manufacturing
• 1.3 billion of the States 5.9 billion budget
  related to the aviation industry
• Manufacturing is the leading industry for Kansas

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Manufacturing is the leading industry for Kansas!
Kansas Real Gross State Product (Year 2000
dollars in billions)
Manufacturing
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Manufacturing is the leading industry for Kansas!
Kansas Real Gross State Product (Year 2000
dollars in billions)
Health Care
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Manufacturing is the leading industry for Kansas!
Kansas Real Gross State Product (Year 2000
dollars in billions)
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Aviation Jobs in Kansas Today

• 36,500 direct jobs
• Each aviation job generates 2.9 additional jobs
• Total of 142,350 direct and indirect jobs
• Kansas aviation wages of 2.4 billion a year

Source WSU Center for Economic Development
Business Research (J. Harrah)
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Kansas Aviation Wages -Total Economic Impact
Projected to more than double to 5.5 billion in
10 years
Source WSU Center for Economic Development
Business Research (J. Harrah)
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Aviation Jobs for Kansans
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Source WSU Center for Economic Development
Business Research (J. Harrah)
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Aviation Jobs for Kansans
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• Higher-skilled, higher-paid employees spend more
  on
• Homes
• Medical Care
• Cars
• Education
• Groceries
• Taxes

Source WSU Center for Economic Development
Business Research (J. Harrah)
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Workforce Requirements

• Hired 5,000 people in 2007
• Need additional 1,000 each of next 10 years
• In addition to 12,000 needed for retirement
  replacement

gt 20,000 skilled workers needed over the next 10
years
Source WSU Center for Economic Development
Business Research (J. Harrah)
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Workforce Requirements Keeping Aviation Strong in
Kansas

• Meeting Workforce needs
• Attract and Retain future workforce - (young
  people) are leaving Kansas
• Aging Workforce
• Lack of skilled workers, not keeping pace with
  changing technology

Technical Training System a must
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Competition for Jobs

• Alabama - ThyssenKrupp Steel Plant
• 2,700 jobs, 810 Million including 313 Million
  cash
• Mississippi - Toyota Assembly Plant 2,000
  jobs, State Incentives 294 Million
• North Carolina - 600 Million grant fund
• Oklahoma Opportunity Fund - 45 Million cash
  and no/low cost customized training
• Texas Enterprise Fund - 295 Million
  cash/Emerging - 200 Million cash

They want our high-paying jobs and tax revenue!
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Retain and Improve Kansas Competitive Advantage

• Retain existing aviation industry - strong
  companies and suppliers
• Grow our position as World leader in aviation
  research (NIAR)
• Leverage Kansas strong work ethic
• Access to potential workforce
• Missing piece (being addressed)
• 5. Flexible, business-driven, high-tech training
  to meet (and attract) skilled worker needs now
  and in future

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Addressing Workforce System Needs

• The Kansas Technical Training Initiative (KTTI)
  formed in 1998
• Four Wichita-based aviation companies, the State
  of Kansas, Sedgwick County, the City of Wichita,
  and the Wichita School District
• Mission
• To provide skilled employees to the aviation
  industry through a world-class, business-driven
  technical education system
• Responding to
• Insufficient labor pool
• Changing demographics
• Advances in technology
• A fractured, non-responsive technical education
  system in place

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Addressing Workforce System Needs

• The Sedgwick County Technical Education and
  Training Authority created in 2004
• Placed Wichita Area Technical College under
  Sedgwick County Authority
• Positioned Technical Training as a priority
  (beyond Aviation)
• Launching a large menu of new programs

Success Priority, Partnerships, Support
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Not just a building!

• Jabara Campus
• 40 Million investment by Sedgwick County
• Land contributed by City of Wichita at Jabara
  Airport
• Investments from Aviation Manufacturers
• Collaboration among education partners to provide
  business-driven programs

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• Aviations Future in Kansas
• Kansas is the leader in Aviation Manufacturing
  (retain)
• To protect our jobs
• We are and must remain the leader in aviation
  research
• We can and must be the leader in aviation
  training

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• To Assist the Kansas Aviation Industry
• Employs 36,500, tax revenues of 1.3 Billion,
  States leading economic sector
• Relationship between NIAR Tech Training

• Requesting 5 million for aviation training in
  each of the next five years (beginning in the
  States 2009 fiscal year)
• Building and construction
• Equipment and machinery
• Programs and curriculum

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• THANK YOU