Dayton is Ohio's official Aerospace Hub of Innovation & Opportunity – a designation that is creating state-supported projects for companies within the hub that develop aerospace and advanced materials technologies. To learn more about the Aerospace Hub, click here.

Tech Town tenants benefit from already-established relationships with the country's leading R&D facilities, leading to unlimited collaboration opportunities with:

• Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB)
• University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI)
• Wright State University Research Institute (WSRI)
• Institute for Development & Commercialization of Sensor Technologies (IDCAST)
• Dayton RFID Convergence Center (Dayton RCC)
• Technology Entrepreneurial Center (TEC)

To learn more about any of these organizations, click on their logos.

Especially important to the Dayton region is the close proximity to Wright-Patterson AFB, where the Air Force Research Laboratory is located. Just 7 minutes from Tech Town, the AFRL is considered the leading aerospace research organization in the USAF.

• Workforce by the Numbers
• 1.5 Million: Dayton's regional workforce exceeds.
• 2nd: Dayton's national rank for Science and Engineering PhD's.
• 90,000: Number of skilled manufacturing workers and technicians living in the region.
• 3,000: Master and Doctorate degrees are awarded annually.
• 24,000: WPAFB employees, including 10,000 civilians.