Mapping Community Defense Industry & Installation Support Supply Chains

Association of Defense CommunitiesMarch 16, 2015

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Session Overview

❖ Chris Chmura, CEO & Chief Economist, Chmura Economics & Analytics – DoD Economic Impact Supply Chain Tool

❖ Pat Downs, Senior Advisor, Education & Workforce Training, Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology - Strategy: Policy and foundational support for defense sector

❖ Andrea Morris, Director, Urban Resilience, Arlington Economic Development – Tactical: helping defense firms diversify

Why Map the DoD Supply Chain?

“Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.”

W. Edwards Deming

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Applying Procurement Impact Model Information: Benefits

❖ Identify firms for business retention and expansion program outreach

❖ Enables the region to focus on potential occupation impacts

❖ Workforce: transition skills

❖ Mitigation strategies….minimize loss

❖ Marketing opportunity….maximize firm attraction

❖ Informs Congressional representatives about the economic impact from specific defense cuts

❖ Tabulates impact data to support applications for federal or state assistance programs.