JS Solutions awarded GSA MAS contract with Highly Adaptive CyberSecurity (HACS) capabilities

JS Solutions, LLC (JSS) was recently awarded the General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), and the award of the Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services (HACS) Special Item Number (SIN) 54151HACS. The GSA MAS Schedule consolidates GSA offerings under a single contract vehicle and gives ordering officials the ability to rapidly obtain a contract award […]

United Community Bank Acquires Huntsville’s Progress Bank

After 14 successful years of banking within and around the Huntsville community, Progress Financial Corporation announced this morning that the company was officially acquired by United Community Bank.  This merger agreement, where United will acquire Progress, was executed in an all-stock transaction with an aggregate value of approximately $271.5 million, or $23.52 per share of […]

National Science Foundation Grant Recently Awarded to Auburn University PhD Student at HudsonAlpha

Laramie Aközbek (nee Smith), a first year Auburn University PhD student in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences in the College of Agriculture, was recently awarded the 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.  Along with the recognition that comes with it, this three-year award will help fund Aközbek’s ongoing research that […]

Local Business Leaders Honored During National Small Business Week

Small business forms the lifeblood of the Huntsville area community, and in recognition of that, the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce commemorated National Small Business Week with an event held Tuesday in the Chamber atrium.  Chamber Vice President of Small Business Ashley Engels-Ross kicked off the event, which recognized the importance of small businesses to […]

Aerojet Rocketdyne – Lockheed Martin Partnership Advances Hypersonics Technology

The collaboration between two giants of the aerospace industry, along with the government agency DARPA and the Air Force Research Lab, has produced a new, more efficient and cost-effective hypersonic missile platform.  The Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, an air-launched hypersonic missile system, was successfully flight-tested. During its flight, it reached an altitude over 6https://www.rocket.com/5,000 feet, […]

Comcast Announces Multi-Million Dollar Expansion in Madison

Comcast has announced the expansion of its fiber-rich network to Madison, Alabama. The multi-million dollar expansion and investment in the Madison community will bring speeds up to 3 gigabits per second to homes and personal residences, and business speeds up to 100 Gbps.  With this expansion comes some exciting advantages for Madison businesses to take […]

AMCA’s Bi-Annual Show: A step into the past reveals Huntsville military present

During World War II and in the aftermath, Huntsvillle joined Tullahoma in Tennessee in the running to acquire some German ingenuity and labor when Prisoners of War were relocated to the United States and to get coveted engineers. Tullahoma seemingly got the better of it when 11 POW camps were opened there in the Volunteer […]

Audio Video Excellence Acquires Huntsville’s Audio Insight

Birmingham-based AV solutions provider Audio Video Excellence (AVX) announced that it is expanding into the Huntsville market with the acquisition of Huntsville company Audio Insight, located at 1229 Putman Dr. NW.  Founded by Huntsville native John Miller in 2000, Audio Insight focuses on designing and installing audio systems into homes and businesses across North Alabama […]

The Great Return, and the Future of Work

Like many other American cities, Huntsville is beginning to emerge from the COVID-induced hibernation, with companies recalling their workers to traditional offices.  A great many of these workers are part of the Federal workforce, who are following the directives of the Biden administration.  At the State of the Union speech, President Biden called on workers […]

UAH’s Office of Technology Commercialization Connects Innovators With Investors

Huntsville is known for the advanced technology of its defense sector, with firms developing bleeding edge advancements in fields as varied as computer engineering, hypersonic ballistics, and material science.  Since the advent of the Space Age, Huntsville has invested a great deal of resources into developing the intellectual infrastructure that has made this concentration of […]