New Mexico chamber report outlines high-tech economic diversification strategy focused on aerospace and quantum computing

Summary

A New Mexico Chamber of Commerce Foundation report outlines a strategy to diversify the state's economy by investing in high-tech sectors, particularly aerospace and quantum computing. The report highlights Spaceport America's role, with recent activity including Hermeus's supersonic flight and Virgin Galactic's planned return to commercial space flights. Spaceport America Executive Director Scott McLaughlin attributes the state's aerospace appeal to its "blue skies and open spaces" and assets like White Sands Missile Range. The report identifies the space and defense industry as having the "capacity to reshape" New Mexico's economic future.