CREC Staff Meets with NYSTAR
March 18, 2019As part of the OEA Industry Resilience Grants project (Formerly OEA – Defense Industry Adjustment), Mark Troppe and Lee Winkler traveled to Albany New York, to meet with the Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), who manages the state’s MEP centers. The group discussed NYSTAR’s efforts to work with the regional and state MEP centers to help New York’s defense industrial base diversify and get certified with NIST 800-171 cybersecurity requirements, through the Grantee’s subgrantee, Mohawk Community College. They heard from several defense manufacturing firms that were happy to work with NYSTAR’s regional Manufacturing Extension Partners in diversifying their customer base and capacity to serve commercial customers at a higher volume.