High-Tech Instruments & Electronics Sector

The High‐Tech Instruments & Electronics sector focuses on research, design, and manufacturing of high‐tech components, electronics, instruments, and devices that serve a number of very different industries – including medicine, aerospace/defense, and marine/environment – but that share a number of commonalities in terms of workforce/skill needs, technologies/innovation approaches, and business processes. 

Key regional assets for this electonic manufacturing sector include a regional critical mass of firms, as well as an existing base of firms and organizations that are active developers/users of technology in the end‐user industries for High‐Tech Electronics & Instruments. Strong existing regional research and innovation assets in the medical and marine sectors (and to a lesser extent the aerospace/defense sector) provide a foundation for spurring and spinning off new technological innovations in Electronics & Instruments. 

The Tampa Bay region also has a solid workforce base for this sector, with expertise covering the range of entry‐level to highly‐skilled manufacturing positions, as well as functional knowledge in the end‐user industries. 

• Avionics / Aviation Electronics Manufacturing

  • Specialized lightweight, compact, and highly‐reliable electronics that are used in aircraft for the military and civilian markets, and especially focuses on fast‐growing avionics sectors such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors that they carry.  

• Marine Instruments, Sensors, Remote Monitors, & Optics Manufacturing

  • Focuses on the design, development, commercialization, and production of sophisticated marine instruments and related electronics

• Medical Instruments & Medical Device Manufacturing

  • Medical devices, including surgical and medical instruments, disposable surgical and medical supplies, diagnostic and electrotherapy equipment, and orthopedic implants, and especially focus on the integration of IT and “smart technologies” into medical instrumentation

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