Port of Huntsville - Huntsville International Airport on LinkedIn: Boeing ’s Starliner capsule launched Wednesday its first astronaut-crewed… (2024)

Communities that host space industry centers have seen economic and educational benefits. For example, Huntsville, Alabama, home of the Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, has attracted an educated workforce with one of the highest rates of engineers per capita. Almost half of residents over the age of 25 in Huntsville have a bachelor's degree or higher.https://lnkd.in/esZjrZUw #huntsvilleinternationalairport #portofhuntsville #spaceflight #space #education #economy

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Lockheed Martin , in collaboration with the United States Department of Defense and Governor Kay Ivey, celebrated the grand opening of its new $18 million engineering facility in Huntsville. The new facility spans 122,000 square feet and has space for up to 500 employees, aiming to advance national security capabilities and foster innovation in North Alabama.The Huntsville site builds upon Lockheed Martin's more than 60-year legacy of partnership with the Huntsville community, supporting various defense domains such as air, space, land, sea, and cyber. With this new facility, Lockheed Martin's footprint in Alabama expands to 30 work sites, employing over 3,300 people across the state.https://lnkd.in/eHPRieAQ #huntsvilleinternationalairport #portofhuntsville #DoD #nationalsecurity #engineering #mda

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Thank YOU for voting Huntsville International Airport as the Newsweek Readers' Choice Best Small Airport! We are so thankful for the continued support.Thank you for choosing to #FlyHSV!https://lnkd.in/eCk44v4z#FlyHSV #HuntsvilleInternationalAirport #BestSmallAirport #NewsweekBestSmallAirport #ReadersChoice

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Thanks to the in Huntsville, Alabama already has a reputation for being home to rocketry. The state now has cause to celebrate that fact, as students from Tharptown High School in Russellville, AL created a rocket that won the top spot in the world's largest rocketry competition.The team was named the National Champion out of a record-setting 922 teams at this year's American Rocketry Challenge.In addition to a prize of $20,000 — and rocketry bragging rights, of course — the students will also now represent the United States in the International Rocketry Challenge at the Farnborough Air Show in July.https://lnkd.in/evD5VqH2#flyhsv #huntsvilleinternationalairport #portofhuntsville #rocketry #tharptownhigh #fas #farnboroughairshow

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Sentar Inc. (Sentar), a women-owned small business specializing in advanced cyber intelligence solutions and technology, has been selected by FORUM (formerly FedHealthIT) as a 2024 FORUM Innovation Award recipient in collaboration with the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic (NIWC) and Defense Health Agency (DHA). Selected by a panel of peers for driving innovation across the Federal Health Community, Sentar is being recognized for the Risk Management Cyber Hygiene Analytics Platform (CHAP)."Sentar's Risk Management Cyber Hygiene Analytics Platform (CHAP) is revolutionizing healthcare cybersecurity for the United States Department of Defense ," says Nathan Swab, Executive Director at Sentar. "We're honored to receive this recognition from FORUM alongside our partners at Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic and Defense Health Agency. CHAP empowers better decision-making through real-time risk assessment, ultimately ensuring the best possible care for our nation's heroes."Sentar and its government customers will be recognized at the FORUM Innovation Awards and Networking Reception to be held on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, from 1:30-4:30 PM ET at The City Club of Washington in Washington, D.C.https://lnkd.in/eF88jhG8#flyhsv #huntsvilleinternationalairport #portofhuntsville #cybersecurity #dod #healthcaredefense

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Aerojet Rocketdyne , an L3Harris Technologies company, has completed several milestones as it executes the $215.6M cooperative agreement signed last year with the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to expand and modernize facilities to support increased production demand primarily focused on Javelin, Stinger and the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS).The cooperative agreement aligns with the DoD's goal of increasing domestic production of solid rocket motors as it replenishes its ammunition supplies of the missile systems that have proven crucial to Ukraine's defense from Russian attacks.https://lnkd.in/eJ4vsxBJ#flyhsv #huntsvilleinternationalairport #portofhuntsville #dod #missiledefense #gmlrs

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Lockheed Martin has secured a $756 million contract from the US Army to produce additional battery equipment for a ground-based hypersonic strike weapon system.The contract also covers the provision of logistics and systems and software engineering services in support of the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon system, the defense contractor said Friday.The United States Department of Defense said in a separate announcement that work will occur at Lockheed’s facility in Huntsville, Alabama, through Feb. 28, 2028.https://lnkd.in/du7K2Syi#flyhsv #huntsvilleinternationalairport #portofhuntsville #hypersonic #mds #aerospace #engineering #rocketcity

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