It's been one year since the Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit working with

commercial companies, spearheaded the Space Workforce 2030 Pledge.

It's a four-pronged plan to boost the diversity of the industry's talent pool.

Now from the same space conference where I unveiled the initiative,

the nonprofit is releasing its first annual report.

We're an industry based upon trying to do the ambitious things that seem to be the

impossible and we know that if we're going to remain at the cutting edge and be a

global leader that we've got to have a more inclusive workforce.

And we had found that we're competing often

for the same kind of talent.

So instead of competing for that talent,

why don't we band together and try to do something

which I'm not aware of another industry doing this in the way that we're doing

and the way working together to really expand that pool.

On this episode I speak with CEO Steve Isakowitz about the business case for a more diverse

workforce as well as aerospace's work bridging, private, and public sectors.

I'm Morgan Brennan, and this is Manifest Space.

Steve, thanks so much for joining me today.

Absolutely, thank you for inviting me.

So you have some news coming out this week.

Space Workforce 2030, a pledge was made here exactly a year ago and this is the first year that we get

an annual report.

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