Welcome to the first Bi-Annual Meeting

August 4, 2016

About AMP SoCalWe are a partnership that collaborates across government, academia and industry, to strengthen the Southern California A&D manufacturing economy through provision of the tools, talent, and capacity to master the future. AMP SoCal is focused on the southernmost ten counties in California, a federally designated Investing in Manufacturing Community Partnership (IMCP) region.

An IMCP designation carries the advantage of preferential access to $1.3 billion in Economic Development Administration funding, which has been allocated toward bolstering the economic

ecosystem of manufacturing across the country.

Federal IMCP DesignationAMP SoCal is among the nation’s first federally designated regions of the Economic Development Administration’s Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (IMCP) initiative, it was selected from more than 70 applications as one of only 12 initial IMCP communities.

Source: Madison Region Economic Partnership (MadREP)

Who We Are

Partners Include:

AMP SoCal is led by the USC Center for Economic Development (CED), an applied research center of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, in partnership with the City of Los Angeles and over 100 companies and organizations.

Our Main ObjectivesGoal Metric

Increase employment in A&D OEMS, Top Tier Suppliers and SMMs # Jobs created or retained

Increase A&D sales and exports Increase in sales

Increase number of SMMs adopting advanced manufacturing technologies

# Companies adopting new advanced technology

Train and educate the workforce with industry input and feedback # Trained or Placed

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For More InformationVisit http://AMPSoCal.org