Governor Announces $10.8 Million Award to The Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, OHIO (October 27, 2003) - Governor Bob Taft today announced that The Ohio State University will receive a $10.8 million Third Frontier award to establish the Ohio Center for Advanced Propulsion and Power. The Center will help position Ohio to capture a significant share of the estimated 80,000 jobs that will be created from new propulsion technologies over the next 20 years.
This project - to develop next generation propulsion systems - will position Ohio to be a major supplier of engines to power new state-of-the-art aircraft for military, commercial, and even space applications.
"This project is a great example of what we hope to achieve through the Third Frontier Project," Taft said. "The Center will create thousands of high-paying jobs for Ohio and will maintain our state's longstanding position as a world leader in the aerospace industry."
The Ohio Center for Advanced Propulsion and Power represents an unprecedented level of collaboration among Ohio's leading aerospace institutions. Collaborators include The Air Force Research Laboratories at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and NASA Glenn Research Center, both of which concentrate on aero-propulsion. Ohio also has the world's leading manufacturer of gas turbine engines - GE Aircraft Engines - plus a multitude of Ohio-based suppliers such as Parker Hannifin, Timken Corporation, Argo-Tech Corporation and WebCore. In addition to these collaborating companies, the Center will also bring together talent from six major engineering schools - The Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Dayton, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Akron and the Air Force Institute of Technology. Other collaborators include Glennan Microsystems, Inc. and AEP Em Tech, LLC.
The Third Frontier Project is Taft's $1.6 billion job creation program to expand Ohio's high-tech research capabilities and promote start-up companies to create high-paying jobs. The final part of the Third Frontier Project, a $500 million bond program up for voter approval in November, would allow the state to allocate $50 million annually over the next 10 years to create new, high-paying jobs for Ohioans and transform Ohio's economy.
