Space Coast Aerospace & Defense Hiring Report

What’s inside this issue

• The Space Coast Openings Index — a same-date count of 1,844 open A&D roles across a reviewed 21-company watch list, up 9.2% from August on a comparable basis — a third straight month of growth.
• Lockheed Martin, re-baselined — its careers platform has finished repopulating, and the largest single block on its Brevard list is 25 Orion requisitions at Kennedy Space Center.
• Quarterly county wage data — fresh BLS QCEW figures put Brevard aerospace-manufacturing employment at 10,341, up 13% year over year, with average weekly wages up 5.7%.
• Contracts & the demand signal — the quarterly federal contract census for Brevard County, the ~$193M wave of KSC facilities awards, and the COMET ground-systems option that runs Amentum to September 2028.
• Monthly Spotlight — building for the Moon: what the public record reveals about the Artemis III workforce at Kennedy Space Center.

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