Seven companies have been awarded funding to reimburse training costs for 67 New Mexicans through $1.7 million in Job Training Incentive Program grants awarded in December.
Cabinet Secretary Rob Black
Deputy Cabinet Secretary Isaac Romero
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December 22, 2025
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
State approves $1.7M in training funds for 67 jobs
Job training program supported 1,330 new jobs across New Mexico in 2025
SANTA FE — Seven companies have been awarded funding to reimburse training costs for 67 New Mexicans through $1.7 million in Job Training Incentive Program grants awarded in December.
The Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) is a state program designed to boost economic development and job growth by offsetting training costs for new hires.
This year, JTIP awarded more than $19 million to 84 companies across the state to support up to 1,330 jobs. Of these, 809 were manufacturing jobs in rural communities — more than 60% of the total positions funded. The average hourly wage of funded jobs statewide was $28.44.
Included in this month’s awardees is Mantis Space, which recently announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters to Albuquerque and a $2.5 million Local Economic Development Act grant from the state earlier this month. This JTIP allocation represents the beginning of the company’s local hiring efforts.
“JTIP isn’t just an ordinary grant program; it truly has the power to transform communities and lives by making it easy for companies to thrive and expand while upskilling New Mexicans,” said Cabinet Secretary Rob Black. “With over 1,300 new jobs and 800 of those jobs in rural communities, we are helping families throughout the state build brighter futures.”
This month’s approvals went to five companies creating new jobs, one requesting an amended amount from a previous request, and one looking to upskill current employees for advancement.
- 3D Glass Solutions, Inc., Albuquerque, 13 trainees at an average hourly wage of $51, for an award up to $370,674. The company designs, prototypes and produces next-generation glass micro-devices, circuits and bio-arrays.
- BlackVe, Inc., Albuquerque, 11 trainees with up to $55,323 in Step Up grants, a JTIP program that assists in training current employees with more advanced skills. The company is focused on delivering space capabilities for national security.
- Gnomad LLC (dba Gnomad Canna Co.), Tatum, 11 trainees at an average hourly wage of $17, for an award up to $89,570. Gnomad is a woman–owned cannabis company that produces and sells cannabis flower, edibles, salves and topicals, vape pens and cartridges, and pre-rolls. This is the company’s first JTIP application.
- Mantis Space, Albuquerque, 8 trainees at an average hourly wage of $85, for an award up to $391,551. Mantis Space is building orbital infrastructure that will deliver power directly to on-orbit assets such as satellites, habitats and lunar operations. This is Mantis Space’s first JTIP application.
- Quantinuum LLC, Albuquerque, 7 trainees at an average hourly wage of $75, for an award up to $300,117. Quantinuum is a quantum computing company, born from the merger of Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum. It delivers trapped-ion quantum hardware, advanced software platforms and cybersecurity solutions.
- Redwire Space, LLC, Albuquerque, 14 employees at an average hourly wage of $58, for an award up to $455,483. Redwire’s Albuquerque site is dedicated to advancing the development of space-based defense systems and support work under its $45 million contract with Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate to design, develop, and test prototype software and hardware for mission-critical technologies.
- UbiQD, Inc., Los Alamos, 3 trainees at an average hourly wage of $48. The company has applied for JTIP funding on 16 previous occasions, and this application is an amended award for $94,191 to hire additional staff. UbiQD is an advanced materials company specializing in the development and manufacture of safe, high-performance quantum dot nanomaterials for applications in agriculture, clean energy and security.
Learn more about the JTIP program at EDD.NewMexico.gov/JTIP.
