In February 2024, DART, Monterey Bay Economic Partnership (MBEP), and University of California — Santa Cruz collaborated to convene the Monterey Bay Tech Hub (MBTH), a coalition of regional stakeholders who recognize the need for collective action to strengthen the opportunity for AAM-based economic growth and job creation in the Tri-County Monterey Bay region. The MBTH Program structure is modeled after DARTs successful programs. Along with serving on the MBTH Executive Committee and Leadership Council, DART facilitates the MBTH Infrastructure Working Group (IWG).

The objective of the IWG is to grow R&D-supporting and AAM operation-enabling infrastructure at Monterey Bay regional and local airports to accomplish the following:

• Attract additional R&D activity and public funding
• Pilot critical infrastructure and scalable approaches
• Support and expand existing R&D activity
• Strengthen relationships among AAM infrastructure stakeholder community from local to national scale
• Prepare strategic AAM infrastructure development plan(s) for consideration by larger Tech Hub group

The IWG meets virtually on the first Thursday of the month from 1-2pm. If you are interested in participating in the IWG, please reach out to DART directly via email. View agendas from past meetings below: