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Issue No. 4 — the first quarterly flagship. 1,844 tracked openings, up 9.2% from August on a comparable basis and a third straight month of growth, with Lockheed Martin back on the board after its careers-site migration and fresh county data showing Brevard aerospace-manufacturing employment up 13% year over year.
Read this issue →Issue No. 3. The Index's strongest month yet: about 1,630 tracked openings, up 12.5% from July on a comparable basis, as Blue Origin and L3Harris drove the gains and second-shift hiring spread across at least five tracked employers.
Read this issue →Issue No. 2. The tracked Space Coast market reached about 1,547 open roles, up 9.5% from June, as manufacturing hiring accelerated and the competition for skilled technicians intensified.
Read this issue →Issue No. 1. Who is hiring across Brevard County's aerospace and defense employers, what the market pays, the federal contracts shaping demand, and a spotlight on security clearances — compiled from public, verifiable data.
Read this issue →Issue No. 5. A new series high: 3,092 on-site roles across all 16 tracked employers — 2,085 in the LA/OC Aerospace Corridor and 1,007 in San Diego — up 13.6% from September, led by SpaceX's Hawthorne site and Lockheed Martin's Palmdale site, with growth on every cut and just 8 A&D workers in WARN notices.
Read this issue →Issue No. 4, a quarterly flagship. The highest reading in the series: 2,721 verified on-site roles across all 16 tracked employers — 1,716 in the LA/OC Aerospace Corridor and 1,005 in San Diego — with growth holding at +2.8% to +5.2% even after stripping out job-board and counting effects.
Read this issue →Issue No. 3. The first fully verified issue: 2,453 open on-site roles across all 16 tracked employers — 1,607 in the LA/OC Aerospace Corridor and 846 in San Diego — with the headline gain driven by tag changes, an underlying market flat to modestly softer, and every verified gain landing in San Diego's mid-tier.
Read this issue →Issue No. 2. The first fully verified SoCal count: 2,349 open on-site roles across 16 tracked employers — 1,333 in the LA/OC Aerospace Corridor and 1,016 in the San Diego Defense Cluster — with Northrop Grumman overtaking SpaceX as the Index's largest employer and zero active A&D WARN notices.
Read this issue →Issue No. 1. The first directly sourced, aggregator-free count of on-site aerospace and defense hiring across Southern California — 2,268 open roles spanning the LA/OC Aerospace Corridor and the San Diego Defense Cluster, what the market pays, the federal spending driving demand, and the WARN watch.
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