Toyota USA Foundations announces $6.7 million in grants with Jemison and Lee High Schools as primary focus

Toyota USA Foundation announced late last week at a press conference at Mae Jemison High School that the organization is donating grants of up to $6.7 million over the next five years to prepare Huntsville City Schools’ students for future careers in STEM fields such as science, technology, engineering and math. The collaboration is part […]

Davidson and D-Wave bring quantum computing to missile defense scenarios

During the busy schedule at the 2023 SMD Symposium, Davidson Technologies and D-Wave announced a partnership that will allow the two companies to make use of quantum computing to generate missile defense scenarios with a demonstration of an unclassified defense scenario generated using DecisionOne. D-Wave, a commercial quantum computer and supplier Davidson Technologies announced that […]

NASA and IBM announce first of its kind open-source AI to combat climate change

In the midst of a week filled with groundbreakings, partnership announcements, and the SMD Symposium, NASA and IBM stepped up to give an important update on their current project. Back in February, the two companies started work on an AI foundation model for NASA’s earth science satellite data that would allow for NASA’s Earth-observing satellite […]

Real Estate Update: Sales continue to rise despite drop in new listings

The Huntsville Area Association of Realtors (HAAR) has compiled its report for the Huntsville/Madison County real estate market, dated to the last week of July.  New listings for single-family units decreased by 17.4%, even as inventory increased 14.2% for that same period. With sales continuing their modest rise – a 0.4% increase in this instance […]

2023 SMD Symposium highlights advances, products, services in missile defense

The 2023 Space and Missile Defense Symposium has come to a close, and so with it one of the busiest weeks for Huntsville this year. The event, held August 8-10 at the Von Braun Center, featured 20 Tech Track discussions and over 260 exhibitors showcasing products and services ranging from weapon systems and precision machining […]

Huntsville business cuts ribbon on new Interceptor Engineering Center

Helping kick off a busy week here in Madison County, Raytheon hosted a ribbon cutting for its new Interceptor Engineering Center in its facility at 401 Jan Davis.  The new Interceptor Engineering Center is an expansion of the facility in Tucson, Arizona. The Interceptor Program is a missile defense program focusing on detecting and destroying […]

Huntsville’s Avilution successfully demonstrates new experimental technologies at EDGE

Avilution LLC, a Huntsville-based avionics software startup company, soared to new heights with its successful demonstration of new experimental technologies at this year’s U.S. Army Experimental Demonstration Gateway Exercise (EDGE 23), held at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground. Avilution participated in the exercise from May 15 through May 18, 2023. Because of the critical need to […]

Bank Independent hires new Community Engagement Representative

Bank Independent announced that Ashlyn Biggers has joined the team as the Community Engagement Representative for Huntsville and Madison County. Biggers joins Bank Independent after spending the past year co-founding The Vessel, a ceramics studio and curated space for art education, community and retail shopping. Before launching The Vessel, she spent three years at Holtz Leather Company where […]

Women in Missile Defense Luncheon tackles women’s issues in industry

The Women in Missile Defense Luncheon kicked off the Space and Missile Defense Symposium at 11:30 on August 7, highlighting the achievements of and hurdles faced by women working in the male-dominated industry. The panelists were Lynn Troy, Troy 7 President; Angela Rittenbach, CEO and President of Riverstone Solutions; and Janice Chen, Associate Director for […]

City of Huntsville chosen to host global event for the first time

To kick off an exciting and busy week here in Huntsville, Mayor Tommy Battle announced a unique global sporting event that city will play host to in 2026.  Over the past few years, Huntsville has garnered national and global attention with the ever-growing sports industry that is burgeoning in Madison County. In the past year […]