Employers in Tucson Arizona include advanced technology companies like Raytheon Missile Systems, Texas Instruments, IBM, America Online, Universal Avionics, Slim-Fast Foods, Misys Healthcare Systems, and Bombardier. The City of Tucson, Pima County, the State of Arizona and the private sector have all made commitments to create a growing, healthy economy with high-tech industries as its foundation. Tucson has become a leader and a model in the strategy of economic clustering. Tucson clusters include Aerospace, Advanced Composite Materials, Environmental Technology Industry, Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Optics.
The clustering strategy has helped Tucson become a leader in the new knowledge-based economy. Tucson now has more than 1,200 companies employing over 50,000 people in the high-tech industries of Southern Arizona. The optics industry is one of the most successful. This cluster, encompassing 135 entities, represents a broad range of products and services, including optical design and engineering, fiber optic components for telecommunications, lasers and semiconductors, metrology instrumentation, high volume precision plastic optics, telescopes, and optical coatings/thin films.
Credit: Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
