Booz Allen to Award Grants for Solutions to COVID-19 Impact

Huntsville gets a chance to do what she does best: combine her creative thinking skills, her complex problem-solving expertise, and advanced technology capabilities to find ways to combat the wide-ranging negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. These opportunities arise from an Innovation Fund created by the Booz Allen Foundation. The fund will award up to […]

Dynetics to develop NASA’s Artemis Human Lunar Landing System

Huntsville-based Dynetics has been awarded a contract under NASA’s Artemis program to design a Human Landing System and compete to build a system to take the first woman and next man to the lunar surface by 2024. Dynetics is one of three prime contractors selected. The Dynetics approach enables near-term reusability and sustainability and provides […]

Speaking from Experience, Astronaut Hoot Gibson on Living Through Quarantines and Confined Spaces

Up until now, he was one of only a handful of people on Earth who knows what it feels like to go through self-quarantine, and live with other people in a small, confined space for more than five weeks. Retired NASA astronaut and Navy pilot Robert “Hoot” Gibson was a bit puckish with his opening […]

RCP, gener8tor Announce Emergency Response Program for Artists, Musicians

RCP Companies, developer of MidCity District, and gener8tor have launched an initiative supporting Huntsville artists, musicians and others affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Under the Huntsville Emergency Response Program, artists, musicians and others in creative crafts will have access to a free, week-long webinar series designed to identify and leverage critical resources in order to […]

Talk of Reopening Local Businesses Gains Steam

With the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Madison County flattening the curve, talk of reopening business is growing steam. The number of positive tests for COVID-19 was the same Saturday — 205 — as it was Thursday. That figure was 198 to start the week. The number of deaths in the county related […]

Facebook Launches $100M Small Business Grant Program

To support COVID-19 relief efforts in the Huntsville Data Center community, Facebook has launched a Small Business grant program. Facebook is building a 970,000 square-foot data center in the North Huntsville Industrial Park. It was scheduled to be operational this year but construction has slowed due to the pandemic. For the grant program, here is the […]

Area Hospitality Industry Weathering COVID-19 Storm

It officially began with a health order from the state March 20. That’s when all on-premise consumption of food and beverages in restaurants and bars had been officially banned. Then, Gov. Kay Ivey’s “Stay at Home order” followed on April 4 thus further delineating “essential” versus “nonessential” businesses. One thing that is certain since COVID-19 […]

Chamber Launches GetYourGiftOn.Org to Support Local Restaurants and Stores

If you were not hungry before, you will be after visiting the new GetYourGiftOn.org website (https://www.getyourgifton.org/), launched by the Huntsville-Madison Chamber of Commerce in support of local small businesses, especially restaurants and retail establishments. The website features retail and dining establishments which can quickly and easily upload detailed information about their business, including any promotional […]

Crestwood CEO: What We’re Doing, What You’re Doing, is Working

Universal Source Control. That’s the new buzz phrase coming from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) regarding the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Crestwood Medical Center CEO Dr. Pam Hudson said that was a “fancy way to say, ‘We can’t tell who all has it, we might each have it ourselves. If we all put a mask […]