Washington Business Winter-Spring 2014 | Page 45

business backgrounder | industry As of mid-January, Air Washington had trained 2,441 workers, including 357 veterans, in skills such as advanced manufacturing expansion alone is l i st , h e l a n d e d helping the supplia job at Angeles of composites, ers have the skilled Composite Tech electronics, avionics, workforce they need to nologies, Inc. aircraft assembly compete.” (ACTI), which man and aircraft maintenance. The technicians trained ufactures composite through Air Washington components for Boeing, funding and coordination are Lockheed-Martin and Bomcertified by the Federal Aviation bardier Aerospace. Administration in maintenance, repair “I signed up for the classes just and operations. They can work for Boeing, a because composites are new and exciting,” commercial airline or any of the 1,400-some aerospace Weishorn said. “Then I happened to get a job here companies spread across all but four counties in Washington, doing composites. The school called and said, ‘You