Kentucky COMPETES explores Department of Defense (DoD) relevant, innovative, and futuristic changes leading to a design that advances the DIB ecosystem to achieve modernization and economic diversification, allowing elevation of Kentucky’s manufacturing, aerospace, and distribution and logistics sectors as nationally competitive industries.
A Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs (KCMA) grant-funded project focused on examining ways to expand innovation of defense industrial base (DIB) businesses in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
This project creates an opportunity to understand workforce needs, policy recommendations, infrastructure priorities, and emerging concepts and industries needed within the state. The Federal funding builds upon previous grant work activities to modernize and diversify its defense sector in alignment with the DoD Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation’s (OLDCC) Diversification and Modernization Program for Economic Adjustment Assistance for State Governments.
This study was prepared under contract with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, with financial support from the Office of Local Development Community Cooperation (OLDCC), Department of Defense. The content reflects the views of Kentucky and does not necessarily reflect the views of OLDCC.
