DEPARTMENT: Office of Innovation
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Jose De La Cruz, Chief Innovation Officer
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City-wide
SUBJECT:
Briefing by Port San Antonio on the organization's strategic growth plans as a center of innovation and applied technology.
SUMMARY:
Jim Perschbach, President and CEO of Port San Antonio, will provide a briefing on the organization's growth strategy as a center of innovation and applied technology, including plans to spur greater connectivity and collaboration between cybersecurity, information technology and other regional industries.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The 1,900-acre Port campus has throughout its history been a major platform where military and commercial aircraft and components are modernized. That work continues and has created hundreds of jobs in recent months as the Port's customers are growing their workloads on an array of platforms to meet 21st-century needs, particularly securing the digital technologies that operate aircraft, prolong operational life and increase connectivity. Along with this robust aerospace expansion is the growth of some of the world's most sophisticated cybersecurity operations, which are also located on the Port campus. Today over 1,000 cybersecurity professionals work at the Port, anchored by the Air Force Cyber headquarters and several private-sector firms.
Given the parallel growth of these industries and significant global markets for the application of cybersecurity and other information technology innovations to safeguard and create greater efficiencies across many industries, the Port is uniquely positioned to foster greater collaboration between industries on its campus and throughout the region. The technological solutions developed through these collaborations can address innovation needs of global markets, including aviation, energy, medicine, ground transportation, manufacturing, financial services and supply chains-all with well-established centers of talen...
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