2026-2030 Economic Development Strategic Plan

• Advanced manufacturing potential in the region focuses more specifically on reinforcing and repositioning legacy strengths from aerospace and similar production, including complex commercial and industrial machinery, microelectronics, and components. In service-oriented sectors, both engineering and drafting are a natural part of this landscape and thus also included in the cluster. • Cybersecurity is a refinement of opportunity within advanced business and professional services, protecting computer systems and networks against bad actors. An urgent demand from governments, businesses, and organizations of all sizes, the regional potential nearly a decade ago centered on a strength in simply training to fill unmet quality job openings. However, as capabilities and workforce production have expanded, along with acceptance of remote services, that possibility has extended to business and job creation. The technical and talent capacity in the region is converging with new relationships meeting needs of federal and defense agencies, emerging as a new base for economic growth in cybersecurity activities not already occupied by regions focused on basic research or a government operation. Inland SoCal has strong momentum in the cybersecurity sector. Over the past 15 years, the Center for Cyber and AI (CyAI) at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) has positioned the region at the forefront of cybersecurity workforce development. During this time, the Center for CyAI received high-profile federal designations from the National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science Foundation for excellence in cybersecurity education. Through these designations, the Center shapes standards and best practices in cybersecurity training nationwide.

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