“NAAMCE Hires Executive Director to Lead Organisation in Fast-Growing Industry”

The Nation­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty Cen­tre of Excel­lence (NAAMCE), based at the Spring­field-Beck­ley Munic­i­pal Air­port in Ohio, recent­ly announced it has hired Ted Angel as Exec­u­tive Direc­tor to lead the organ­i­sa­tion in the fast-grow­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try, reports a press release.  

NAAMCE works from a 30,000 sq. ft. office facil­i­ty, which hous­es an admin­is­tra­tive, lab­o­ra­to­ry, meet­ing and col­lab­o­ra­tion space, with an addi­tion­al 25,000 sq. ft. air­craft hangar space for the U.S Air Force and pri­vate indus­try. It is the only U.S ameni­ty of its kind, sup­port­ing the expand­ing work of man­u­fac­tur­ers and oper­a­tors from the AAM field includ­ing eVTOL air­craft.

The USD10 mil­lion facil­i­ty opened in Decem­ber 2023 with USD6 mil­lion sup­port from the U.S DoD Defence Com­mu­ni­ty Infra­struc­ture Pro­gram; USD2.9 mil­lion from the Job­sO­hio Ohio Site Inven­to­ry Pro­gram (OSIP); and USD1.1 mil­lion from the City of Spring­field.   

The release states, “Angel has a long, sto­ried career in avi­a­tion, aero­space, mil­i­tary and inno­va­tion. He most recent­ly served as the Direc­tor of Projects and Busi­ness Devel­op­ment for Aero­space & Defense for the Day­ton Devel­op­ment Coali­tion (DDC), part of the Job­sO­hio net­work of region­al eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment part­ners.”

At DDC, Angel held var­i­ous lead­er­ship roles, includ­ing as Direc­tor of Project and Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, Aero­space & Defense; Direc­tor of Aero­space Affairs; and DoD Skill­bridge Intern­ship at Day­ton Devel­op­ment Coali­tion Aero­space & Defence office. 

Angel com­ment­ed, “The world of AAM holds enor­mous promise in terms of eco­nom­ic oppor­tu­ni­ty and how peo­ple live their lives now and in the near future, and Ohio is primed to lead the way. I am look­ing for­ward to help­ing Ohio chart the course for AAM and all the oppor­tu­ni­ties this rapid­ly expand­ing sec­tor holds.” 

The release con­tin­ues, “In his new role as NAAMCE’s Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Angel is respon­si­ble for the attrac­tion, expan­sion and reten­tion of AAM part­ners, com­pa­nies and sup­pli­ers through­out Ohio. He will con­vene key AAM stake­hold­ers across the state includ­ing researchers, indus­try lead­ers, mil­i­tary per­son­nel and gov­ern­ment offi­cials, to fos­ter col­lab­o­ra­tive efforts align­ing with Ohio’s indus­try strat­e­gy.”

It adds, “Ohio’s AAM lead­er­ship team is unique­ly posi­tioned to part­ner with pub­lic and pri­vate enti­ties, lever­age state and fed­er­al invest­ment, accel­er­ate research and devel­op­ment activ­i­ties, and max­imise the pub­lic ben­e­fits of AAM.” 

The Open­ing Cer­e­mo­ny in Decem­ber, 2023 (Cred­it: NAAMCE)

J.P. Nau­seef, Job­sO­hio Pres­i­dent and CEO, remarked, “Ted’s role reflects Ohio’s oppor­tu­ni­ty to push the bound­aries of this fast-grow­ing sec­tor where tech­nol­o­gy, inno­va­tion, trans­porta­tion and avi­a­tion con­verge. This is part of a long-term strat­e­gy ini­ti­at­ed more than 20 years ago to ensure that the Day­ton Region and Ohio are strong­ly posi­tioned for the future of aero­space and avi­a­tion.” Adding, “And it’s work­ing!”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://springfieldohio.gov/city_services/naamce/  

https://www.jobsohio.com

(Top image: Ted Angel)

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