Leidos Donates $1M Toward Huntsville Cyber School

It is the only public magnet high school in the nation to integrate cyber technology and engineering into all its academic disciplines. Thanks to a $1 million donation from Leidos, the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering is getting an academic and residential facility to support Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education.  Leidos […]

Crestwood Offers Monoclonal Antibody Treatment to Help Combat COVID-19

In the ongoing battle against the pandemic, it’s important to have a variety of weapons in the medical arsenal. The Delta variant has clearly demonstrated that vaccines alone might not be enough in the war against COVID-19. Although vaccines have been highly effective for many, acquiring the breakthrough COVID has been a real concern, especially […]

A Microgravity Vote for Huntsville is a Macro Boost for Local Economy

The Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce is taking some homemade technology on the road and could use a little help from its friends. The Chamber has partnered with three Huntsville companies – Sierra Space, Rhodium Scientific and SustainSpace – to compete against more than 300 other entries at the international 2022 South by Southwest Conference […]

Northrop Grumman Opens Missile Defense Futures Lab in Huntsville

Northrop Grumman has chosen Huntsville for its flagship Missile Defense Futures Lab designed to quickly develop, test and field an integrated missile defense system. The lab joins the developmental center of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System at the company’s Cummings Research Park facility. The message could not have been clearer at […]

HudsonAlpha’s Neil Lamb: A Unique Combination of Researcher and Educator

Enthusiasm is contagious. If one is passionate about the work they do, it can ignite a “fire” in others, merely by association. It’s something that’s often been observed in the educational realm. Anyone can stand at a lectern and read from a text. It’s not hard to do, but it IS boring for the audience.  […]

SMD Symposium Focused on Defense in New Era

The annual Space & Missile Defense Symposium begins today at the Von Braun Center with dozens of exhibitors, a list of distinguished speakers and a focus on the future. About a dozen top military officials are scheduled to speak in person or virtually. This year’s symposium theme is “Space and Integrated Air and Missile Defense […]

Drake State Awarded $1.2M from NASA for STEM Workforce Development, Outreach

Drake State Community & Technical College is one of six colleges and universities to win NASA’s Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) award. The awards are made possible through NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) and provide up to $1.2 million for a […]

Madison County Legislators Secure Funding for Drake State Space Research Program

The Frontiers Research Program at Drake State Community & Technical College recently received $315,000 in state funding thanks to the efforts and support of the Madison County Legislative Delegation. The money will be used toward the purchase of equipment and technology that will  help the college continue its research in additive manufacturing for NASA’s Moon […]

Sitdown with Success: Ashok Singhal of CFD Research

Sitdown with Success is a feature of the Huntsville Business Journal on entrepreneurs and their keys to success. Our July subject is Ashok Singhal, founder of CFD Research. According to the textbooks, computational fluid dynamics uses complex computer algorithms for modeling and simulating the flow of fluids, gases, heat, and electric currents to make technological […]

Huntsville’s QuantiTech and Subsidiaries Combine Forces as Axient

With a vision, Sheila Brown founded QuantiTech in 1991 as a Woman-Owned Small Business providing engineering expertise and management advisory services to government and commercial customers. In 30 years, QuantiTech has grown into a family of four companies with engineering capabilities in the aerospace and cyberspace industries. Now, QuantiTech, Millennium Engineering and Integration, Dynamic Concepts, […]