The Rocket City maintains its position as a leading national destination for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. The latest national report from CoworkingCafe ranks Huntsville as the fourth-best mid-sized U.S. metro area (with a population between 500,000 and 999,999), based on factors such as job availability, wage growth, affordability, and educational infrastructure. The […]
On Wednesday, June 25, the Catalyst Center for Business & Entrepreneurship hosted the city’s latest NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) event. The agenda for the event included a welcome from Catalyst’s COO, Sandy Edwards; CEO Lisa Mays; and Don Carver, President of Cepeda Systems. For the main portion of the event, staff members from […]
HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology’s Dr. Emily Gordon introduced the classroom to the bookends of STEM simultaneously. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, known by its acronym STEM, is the basis for the “Spark’’ cohort at HudsonAlpha. The nonprofit in Cummings Research Park sponsors ongoing educational projects. The Spark program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), […]
Huntsville is no stranger to federal twists and turns. From Saturn V to today’s Artemis missions, the city has long weathered Washington’s ups and downs while steadily expanding its aerospace, defense, and tech footprint. Now, as the Senate weighs amendments to the “Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R. 1), local business owners are rightly asking how Sen. Ted Cruz’s proposed spending […]
As an ongoing political tug-of-war drags on between Alabama and Colorado to land the permanent Space Command headquarters, frustration grows among politicians from both states. The decision, with Dr. Troy E. Meink’s approval by the U.S. Senate three weeks ago as the new Secretary of the Air Force, is expected any day to either move […]
Those who have attended NASA rocket launches live at Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral tell of an inspiring experience. It wasn’t Florida, it wasn’t NASA and it wasn’t in-person, but the live showing of the Blue Origin NS-32 launch and landing in West Texas on a big screen at the U.S. Space & Rocket […]
In a ceremony both celebratory and symbolic, RNGD contractors placed the final steel beam atop the Lewter District development on Tuesday, marking a key milestone in one of Huntsville’s most anticipated mixed-use projects. But as the beam was raised into the spring sky, the moment also underscored the broader conversation unfolding at the national level—about […]
While residents, business folks, politicians and assorted local authorities and civic leaders await anxiously for the federal government to declare the future home of the United States Space Command, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center is moving SPACECOM’S cousin, Space Force, into the spotlight. On a night where talk of SPACECOM took a back seat, […]
Boeing, a global leader in the aerospace industry, is currently grappling with several significant legal challenges that cast a shadow over its workforce, including employees in Huntsville, Alabama. These lawsuits—some ongoing and others settled—raise pressing questions about corporate governance, employee treatment, and the company’s financial priorities, particularly as it undergoes a major restructuring that has […]
Shipbuilders live near docks. Likewise, the New York metro area doesn’t offer many prospects to make a living in the space and defense industries. With that in mind, architect turned engineer David Malott and a modest crew eventually left the Big Apple for the Tennessee Valley. Malott’s architecture practice morphed into an engineering company and […]
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