The Puerto Rico Minority Business Development Agency Center, a nonprofit run by the Puerto Rico Products Association, received funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce to establish a technical assistance program to help minority companies join the aerospace industry supply chain.
The Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico inaugurated Thursday a new aerospace laboratory at its Hato Rey campus that houses the first flight simulator on the island. The facility aims to train future aerospace engineering professionals to enter the highly specialized field currently booming on the island, school officials said.