Thu, Apr 15, 2010
Independent Analysis Shows 11,800 Direct Jobs and $6.1 Billion
In Economic Impact
Newly released results from The Tauri Group, an independent,
analytic consulting firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, reveal that
the new NASA Commercial Crew and Cargo Program funding in the
President's FY2011 Budget Request will result in an average of
11,800 direct jobs per year over the next five years,
nationwide. The Tauri Group study was commissioned by the
Commercial Spaceflight Federation for an objective estimate of jobs
resulting from NASA's proposed spending of $5.8 billion on
Commercial Crew and an additional $312 million on Commercial Cargo
from FY2011 to FY2015.
"The Tauri Group's analysis indicates a peak of 14,200 direct
jobs in FY2012 will result from the design and development of
capsules to take astronauts to and from the International Space
Station, 'human rating' of rockets, upgrades to launch
infrastructure at Cape Canaveral, launch vehicle manufacturing, and
demonstration launches during the development phase," said Bretton
Alexander, President of the Commercial Spaceflight
Federation.
The study used a government economic impact model developed by the
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and provides average job figures
resulting from the assessment of over 50 possible program
competition outcomes. The job figures considered only the
proposed new NASA funding of $6.1 billion under the Commercial Crew
and Commercial Cargo budget lines, so the job figures do not
include additional private investment above the NASA funding.
Additionally, jobs created by operational flights of commercial
crew vehicles following their development were not included in this
study, nor were activities funded under the existing Commercial
Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program funding of $500
million and the follow-on operational cargo flights to the
International Space Station under the $3.5 billion Commercial
Resupply Services (CRS) program. Indirect and induced jobs in
the communities surrounding these activities were also not
included, with only direct jobs being counted.
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