Location. Location. Location. That’s the famous phrase about real estate. And, according to defense contractor Dayton T. Brown, that’s the reason it opened its Solid Rocket Motor Qualification & Production Test Center in the Rocket City. DTB’s facility on Pulaski Pike is a couple minutes down Pulaski Pike from L3Harris’ Advanced Manufacturing Facility – North, […]
As demand grows for advanced drone capabilities, Huntsville-based Performance Drone Works is looking to Ukraine for technology shaped by the realities of modern warfare. The collaboration advances PDW‘s strategy to field battle-tested technology through American engineering and industrial capacity, with planned Kurbas camera qualification and production, and exploration of U.S. thermal sensor manufacturing. Performance Drone […]
A pair of companies are coming together to give a boost to American defense technology. Huntsville-based Performance Drone Works announced that Booz Allen’s new mission autonomy software will be integrated on its attritable multirotor drones. The software supports autonomy-enabled mission execution, helping operators execute parts of the mission workflow with reduced manual control while retaining […]
To help the “urgent replenishment” of the nation’s missile supply, Raytheon has secured a five-year contract to produce Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptors. The $6.3 billion contract, with two additional option years, provides long-term production stability for critical missile defense capability, the defense contractor said. “This award underscores Raytheon’s commitment to increasing production of critical […]
With a target of shorter lead times and lower costs, EOS Defense Systems USA is expanding production at its Huntsville facility for the next generation of Slinger, the company’s flagship counter-drone Remote Weapon System. The product is in the final stages of development with upgrades focused on autonomy to meet the current threat, the company […]
PPG is making a $70 million investment to expand its aerospace transparencies work in Huntsville, the company announced Wednesday. The investment is part of a series of multi-year projects that support PPG’s efforts to increase production capacity and continued growth of its aerospace transparencies business. “Demand for aerospace transparencies continues to grow across commercial, military […]
“Location. Location. Location.” is the most famous rule in real estate. It also applies to navigation. And, in these ever-changing times, some vital navigation technology is not keeping pace with growing demand. So, to meet that demand, Advanced Navigation America, the U.S. arm of global robotics company Advanced Navigation, is expanding manufacturing in Huntsville to […]
What’s Huntsville’s “secret sauce?” According to Mayor Tommy Battle, it’s building relationships across all levels of government and industry. And that is what helped the Rocket City earn recognition as a Secret Sauce Community, according to Heartland Forward. The Bentonville, Ark.-based think-and-do tank honored three cities — Huntsville; Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Oklahoma City — […]
With the aim of preparing the future workforce to meet the demands of manufacturing and artificial intelligence, the Manufacturing Institute and the Alabama Community College System signed a Memorandum of Understanding to bring the institute’s AI Skills for Manufacturing Training Suite to community colleges across Alabama. The agreement was signed Monday in a ceremony at […]
Huntsville’s aerospace and defense ecosystem continues to be a magnet for business. The latest business to be drawn to the Rocket City is Davis Management, a Boston-based real estate investment, development, and management firm. Davis recently acquired an 80,000 square-foot, industrial research and development facility on Wall-Triana Highway, across from the International Intermodal Center. “We […]
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