Priscilla Beal

The Keystone Space Collaborative (KSC) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to support and serve the Tri-State Region’s (PA, WV, OH) growing space industry. Comprised of regional stakeholders representing industry, academia, economic development and government and economic development organization, KSC is committed to establishing a formal network and infrastructure across the region to support and grow the rapidly emerging commercial space sector and to attracting and expanding the next generation of space industry businesses and talent in the region. The region’s technological, research and manufacturing strengths are directly applicable to the strategic development of this sector, and KSC, as the centralizing, leading space industry organization in the Tri-State Region, will build strategic partnerships and programs to achieve the following goals: • Create and draw space-related funding opportunities to the region; • Amplify the space-related activities and strengths of the region to key external industry stakeholders (such as NASA, DOD and the global space ecosystem); • Accelerate space business activities within the region; • Attract space businesses to the region; • Support space entrepreneurs, start-ups and emerging technologies across the region; • Develop opportunities for space education and innovation at regional schools and universities; and • Develop and keep high-level talent within the region by creating access to space-related job opportunities, and support overall space-related job growth in the region.