The Jacobs ESSSA Group joined forces with our corporate leaders and other Jacobs Technology business segments to establish ongoing relationships with targeted schools, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities & Minority Institutions. This collaboration brought representatives to Huntsville from 10 of these institutions across the United States for the First Annual Jacobs Technology, Education and Business Symposium and HBCU/MI Summit July 27-29, 2009. This summit was a forum for knowledge sharing that targets development of educational curriculum, business networking and talent development. The Jacobs ESSSA Group currently has Blanket Order Agreements with several HBCU/MIs which focus our efforts toward mutually beneficial goals and enables rapid tasking. "This activity illustrated how Jacobs is a trail blazer as to how a corporation in the 21st Century should operate," Dr. Norman Munroe, Florida International University