Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation announced Friday that the state Department of Labor has been awarded more than $3.8 million in federal funding for job-training programs.

The announcement came the day after the labor department announced that the state’s unemployment rate dropped to 6 percent in May, the lowest it’s been in nearly seven years.

In addition to funding training programs, the federal grant will enable the state’s five workforce investment boards, including the Eastern Workforce Investment Board, to partner with the labor department in working with community groups to determine which jobs are in demand and develop programs that create a pipeline of skilled workers in advanced manufacturing and healthcare sectors.

“In eastern Connecticut, our workforce training pipelines have delivered excellent results for workers, families and employers,” U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd Disrict, said in a statement. “This grant strengthens the strategies already in motion to elevate our workforce skills to support the submarines supply chain and other advanced manufacturing industries. As U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez noted during his recent visit to Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut’s workforce training initiatives are working and are a model to replicate around the country.”