BRUNSWICK — Two new training hubs on Brunswick Landing will focus on the latest technology on sea and in space.

Maine Maritime Academy celebrated the opening of its new Maritime Industrial Workforce Training Center on Friday, while just down the street, Maine Space Corporation welcomed visitors to its new SpaceTech Facility.

The training facilities join the more than 150 businesses on-site at the redeveloped Brunswick Naval Air Station.

“Brunswick Landing continues to be a beacon of what’s possible when education, innovation, and industry come together,” state Senate President Mattie Daughtry, D- Brunswick, said in a prepared release. “This event marks a transformational moment for Maine — uniting our maritime heritage with our aerospace and manufacturing future. I’m proud to support these partnerships that are opening new doors for students, workers, and businesses across the state.”

The former Wayfair building on Burbank Avenue is now home to several shipbuilding and maritime industry training programs, including a paid apprenticeship co-led by Bath Iron Works and the Maine Maritime Academy. The 50,000-square-foot facility also offers an engineering and architectural design program for Region 10 Technical High School.

“This is a portal for Maine’s youth,” said Craig Johnson, MMA president.

Tom Stevens, director of training at Bath Iron Works, said BIW and the academy decided to build up the decades-old apprentice school when faced with a shortage of workers funneling into shipyards.

“BIW has a 6-7,000-employee workforce. Our economic impact across the state is in every single county. … I have to hire 600 people a year for the foreseeable future,” Stevens said.

BIW and MMA plan to train 100 apprentices a year in concentration areas like machining, welding, carpentry, electrical and HVAC, pipefitting, marine design, and more.

The new SpaceTech Facility, located in Brunswick Landing’s Hangar 5, provides testing equipment for products used in space — for example, specialized cameras. The 1,300-square-foot facility includes systems that test the products’ abilities to undergo intense vibration, shocks, and harsh temperature and humidity experienced during space travel.

“By combining our efforts and what’s going on [at the MMA] building and the SpaceTech facility, we will have a workforce that is highly skilled, both in the maritime industry and the space industry, and that’s how we can grow our economy,” said Terry Shehata, executive director of the Maine Space Corporation.

The Maine Space Corporation is a nonprofit, quasi-state organization created in 2022 by the state Legislature to grow Maine as a destination for the space industry.

“What we wanted to do with the Space Corporation is provide an opportunity and incentive for our students, both in high school as well as in undergraduate and graduate, to stay in Maine, because we have an opportunity for them to get into the space industry,” Shehata said.