The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Inc. has hired three Hartford area subcontractors to create a worker retraining organization to prevent aerospace talent from abandoning Connecticut and western Massachusetts.
The East Hartford organization (CCAT) that promotes technology innovation and efficiency in the public and private sector would run the Aerospace and Defense Manufacturing Institute (ADMI).
The town of East Hartford won a $990,000 Department of Defense grant last September in the wake of threats in the defense budget to cancel the F-22 Raptor fighter, whose engines are built at Pratt & Whitney’s facilities there.
The town has engaged CCAT to help coordinate establishment of the organization.
To that end, Glastonbury consultant The Charter Oak Group got a $72,848 subcontract to design ADMI’s organizational blueprint for how it would function.
The University of Hartford Center for Professional Development won $24,676 to craft a model for assessing displaced workers’ skills and helping them find jobs.
Meantime, the Connecticut Community College System is being paid $17,500 to set up an online database listing all postsecondary courses and training available in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts to prepare displaced jet-engine builders for other jobs in manufacturing and related technologies.
