South Central Workforce Investment Board (SCWIB)
Department of Defense Logistics and Supply Regional Consortium

SCWIB Consortium Coordinator:
Donald J. Krysakowski, V: 717-887-7905, E: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Mission: On July 14, 2004, Governor Edward G. Rendell reaffirmed his commitment to retaining jobs at military installations throughout Pennsylvania during a tour at Tobyhanna Army Depot, where he received a first-hand look at crucial military work and presented a $75,000 grant to help make Pennsylvania the “Logistics and Supply Center of Excellence” in the country. This consortium intends to build upon the Governor’s intent by developing a partnership comprised of the regional DoD industrial activities and workers, the private contractors that support those activities, regional education and training programs and facilities, and the SouthCental Workforce Investment Board (SCWIB).

It is the mission of this consortium to operate as a “workforce intermediary,” a professed dual customer institution that connects and meets the needs of DoD activities, DoD workers, and DoD supporting contractor firms by connecting these activities with the region’s educational infrastructure. This partnership will give voice to and provide the vehicle for creating education and training programs that are industry driven responses to identified skills gaps. To provide additional sustainability to the partnership, the project will create linkages between the partners and the SCWIB by creating Defense Sectoral Experts at the eight CareerLinks.

Goals and Objectives:

• Provide a forum that brings together military facilities and companies to aggregate training and education needs to support the mission of the Department of Defense facilities located in the SCWIB region. Provide a link between Department of Defense activities, private businesses, and educational institutions to better align training and education to industry demand, particularly demand for higher skilled workers.
• Create opportunities to more effectively utilize information technology, advance the skill level of workers to take advantage of cutting edge technologies and improve Pennsylvania’s over-all location-based advantages and truly create a Military Logistics and Supply Center of Excellence.
• Create a vehicle to identify the training needs of the consortium partners including identifying the skill gaps critical to competitiveness and innovation. This will include identifying a critical job classifications and performing a thoroughly professional task analysis to determine the training needs assessment job classifications. This task analysis model and job task data base will be used to conduct further task analyses on other critical job classifications.
• Create an entity to help its partners to identify and work together to address common organizational and human resource challenges recruiting new workers, retaining incumbent workers, implementing high performance work organization, adopting new technologies and fostering experiential on-the-job earning.
• Insure the collaboration between the industry and youth councils, business-education partnerships, parents and career counselors.
• Establish a partnership that will work to develop new career ladders within and across companies, enabling entry-level workers to improve skills to advance into higher skill, higher wage jobs.
• Create a vehicle whereby new industry credentials could be developed that give companies confidence in the skills of new hires and workers more mobility across firms.
• Create specific DoD skill expertise at the eight CareerLinks that will be equipped to identify employment opportunities within the various DoD components, determine demand occupations, and the skills, knowledge and abilities needed to be competitive within these segments in each of our eight counties.

Charter Members: Letterkenny Army Depot, Defense Depot Mechanicsburg, New Cumberland Army Depot, The Naval Sea Systems Command, The Naval Sea Logistics Support Center, The Naval Sea Systems Command Inventory Control Point, The Defense Logistics Agency, The Pennsylvania State University, Shippensburg University, Dickenson University, Messiah College, York College, The Advanced Skills Center in York, the Franklin County Career and Technology Center, The Manufacturer’s Association of SouthCentral PA, MANTEC, and companies in the region providing products and services to the Department of Defense.