{"id":348634,"date":"2026-06-05T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348634\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:04:07","slug":"governor-newsom-visits-space-beach-and-highlights-californias-aerospace-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348634\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom visits Space Beach and highlights California\u2019s aerospace dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investments into the aerospace & defense sector<\/p>\n

Within\u00a0Governor Newsom\u2019s California Jobs First Economic Blueprint<\/a>, the first statewide economic development strategy in more than 20 years, aerospace & defense is an \u201caccelerate\u201d sector \u2013 one where additional investments from the public and private sectors have the capacity to \u201cbend the curve\u201d to catalyze sustained growth, contributing an estimated $35 billion annually to California\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP).<\/p>\n

Accordingly, the state has made a number of targeted investments into the sector over the past year, including:<\/p>\n

Regional Investment Initiative<\/p>\n

Last August, the state\u00a0awarded<\/a>\u00a0$16.95 million to two projects designed to provide ecosystem support and uplift the aerospace & defense sector\u2019s infrastructure and workforce in the Central Coast.<\/p>\n

CalCompetes Tax Credit Program<\/p>\n

Last June, A.S. Aerospace\u00a0received an award<\/a>, resulting in a $19 million investment to continue manufacturing precision aerospace hardware in Palmdale and Santa Clarita.<\/p>\n

Last November, Hadrian Automation, Inc. was a beneficiary,\u00a0creating 650 jobs and investing $52 million<\/a>\u00a0in Torrance and Northern California to expand its aerospace component manufacturing. True Anomaly also received an award to expand its satellite manufacturing facilities in Long Beach, creating 400 jobs along with a $12.7 million investment.<\/p>\n

NASA Centers in California<\/p>\n

In the Golden State, NASA has three main centers and facilities focused on research, flight, and robotic exploration that all contribute to the state\u2019s economic competitiveness, create high-paying jobs, and inspire the next generation of explorers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ames Research Center\u00a0in Silicon Valley has led NASA in conducting world-class research and development in aeronautics, technology, and science since 1939.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Armstrong Flight Research Center\u00a0at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards is NASA\u2019s primary center for high-risk, atmospheric flight research and test projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u00a0in Pasadena leads in robotic space exploration, sending rovers to Mars, probes to the farthest bounds of the solar system, and satellites to advance understanding of our planet. JPL manages the Deep Space Network which is an international array of giant radio antennas, as well as a major center for quantum research at the Quantum Space Innovation Center (QSIC).<\/p>\n

Generations of aerospace & defense leadership<\/p>\n

California\u2019s role in powering human spaceflight stretches back decades. The Saturn V rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the moon was built almost entirely in California and the original Apollo spacecraft itself was manufactured across the state. The Space Shuttle fleet was assembled in Palmdale, the first U.S. space station, Skylab, was built in Huntington Beach, and the RS-25 engine \u2013 originally developed for the Shuttle and now powering the Space Launch System for Artemis II \u2013 has been designed and manufactured in the San Fernando Valley since the 1970s.<\/p>\n

As of late 2024<\/a>, California is the top state in the country for:<\/p>\n

NASA spending: NASA procurement spending at $5.8 billion, accounting for 25% of NASA\u2019s total procurement nationwide and resulting in $18.6 billion in economic output for California.<\/p>\n

NASA-supported R&D: California\u2019s share of NASA procurement in the R & D services sector is 67%, representing 19% of NASA-supported jobs in the state.<\/p>\n

NASA Employment Impact: Each NASA job in California supports an additional 35.7 jobs across the state, resulting in a total employment impact of 66,208 jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investments into the aerospace & defense sector Within\u00a0Governor Newsom\u2019s California Jobs First Economic Blueprint, the first statewide economic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-348634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}