Reinventing Manufacturing
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<strong>Reinventing</strong> <strong>Manufacturing</strong><br />
San Diego Area<br />
Consisting of San Diego and Imperial Counties, the<br />
San Diego Area hosts the largest regional military presence<br />
in the US and is home to the Navy’s largest West<br />
Coast base. Given the region’s military assets and large<br />
number of veterans, the defense industry accounts for<br />
one out of every four San Diego Area jobs. <strong>Manufacturing</strong><br />
provided 6.2 percent of the region’s employment<br />
in 2014. With aerospace and defense as its base,<br />
advanced manufacturing produces 23 percent of the<br />
San Diego Area’s gross regional product. 50 Much of this<br />
activity comes from small manufacturers.<br />
The San Diego Area offers unique workforce and<br />
geographic characteristics that attract manufacturers<br />
to the region. Military veterans are often well prepared<br />
for manufacturing roles when they return to the civilian<br />
workforce. San Diego’s close proximity to machine<br />
shops in Mexico that can take advantage of low labor<br />
costs has allowed for the formation of cross-border<br />
supply chains. Life sciences research taking place at UC<br />
San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies<br />
has also created a strong cluster of biotechnology and<br />
pharmaceutical companies in the region.<br />
Of the 84,615 manufacturing jobs in the San Diego<br />
Area in 2014, a large portion are defense-related. This is<br />
particularly true in the region’s leading sector, Computer<br />
& Electronic Product <strong>Manufacturing</strong>, which made up<br />
26.2 percent of manufacturing employment with 22,134<br />
jobs in 2014. Among the largest employers in the sector<br />
are aerospace and defense companies Lockheed Martin,<br />
Northrup Grumman, and BAE Systems.<br />
The sectors with the fastest growing employment have<br />
been Beverage <strong>Manufacturing</strong> and Food <strong>Manufacturing</strong>.<br />
Although Beverage <strong>Manufacturing</strong> lost jobs between<br />
1990 and 2010, it experienced and a robust 146.0 percent<br />
employment increase between 2010 and 2014, achieving<br />
a 2014 total of 2,349 jobs (slightly over 1,000 more jobs<br />
than it had in 1990). Food <strong>Manufacturing</strong> showed a similar<br />
pattern with job losses between 1990 and 2010, followed<br />
by a 63.6 percent employment increase between 2010<br />
and 2014, achieving a 2014 total of 4,744 jobs (slightly<br />
over 1,100 more jobs than it had in 1990).<br />
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