Every Texas learner, credential, and employer on one screen.
The Texas submission for the U.S. Department of Education's Connecting Talent to Opportunity Challenge. One record per learner, from enrollment through credential to Texas employer, using systems the state already operates. Built on TEA, THECB, and TWC data, with the Texas Credential Library and BOMForge employer intelligence.
The only state with anchor-scale presence in all five.
Manufacturing employment 969,400 (second nationally). Manufacturing GDP $338.2B. Number one US exporter for twenty-three consecutive years.
Bell V-280 Amarillo, $632M
SpaceX Starbase 8,000 by 2026
NASA JSC Houston, 14,200
Boeing Kelly San Antonio, 3,000
South Texas Project 1,200 jobs
Dow X-energy Seadrift SMR
Natura MSR-1 ACU Abilene
Last Energy 30 micro PWRs
Meta Temple, $800M
Google Midlothian, $880M
Microsoft West TX, $2B
Apple / Foxconn Houston
Keppel AmFELS Brownsville
CC Army Depot 2,867
Port Houston #1 US exports
Port Corpus Christi LNG
Freeport LNG 3 trains
Rio Grande LNG Train 1 by 2027
HyVelocity Hub $1.2B DOE
Permian Basin ~40% US oil
Learners. Credentials. Employers.
Trade schools from BOMAtlas. Industry-based certifications from the Texas Credential Library via Credential Engine. Manufacturers from BOMForge with live federal-contractor data. The marketplace joins all three every time a learner, a school, or an employer asks a question.
··· employers
16,000+ credentials
Where the Marketplace closes the loop.
Eight Texas regions with anchor-scale demand matched to nearest credential-producing training partners. Rated by coverage. This is the narrative the CTO Challenge submission depends on.
Three layers, one marketplace.
Filtered to Texas for this demonstration. In production, every query across the state unions these three surfaces in milliseconds.
Texas is the only state with anchor-scale employer demand across all five DOE priority industries.
This demonstration supports a Tri-Agency submission convened by the Governor's office. BOMForge proposes as the employer-intelligence technology partner, alongside Credential Engine (incumbent behind the 16,000-credential Texas Credential Library) and the existing Tri-Agency workforce infrastructure. Below is the competition timeline. The Pre-Phase submission window closes in ten days.