Turner celebrates topping out at Aerojet Rocketdyne plant

Turner Construction recently celebrated the topping-out for Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Huntsville. The facility began construction in March and is set for completion in December. The 136,000-square-foot industrial facility, sitting on 18.25 acres at the corner of Pulaski Pike and Prosperity Drive, will be used to produce subcomponents of the AR1 rocket engines, […]

Sentar awarded $12.1 Billion U.S. Army contract

  Sentar, a Woman-Owned Small Business, was recently awarded a potential, nine-year, $12.1 billion contract from the Army. The Huntsville-based company specializes in advanced cybersecurity and intelligence services and technology. The award is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-3 services, known as ITES-3S. The program  is expected to be the Army’s primary […]

Star Lab moves office to Stovehouse

  A Washington, D.C.-based security company has moved its Huntsville office to the city’s Westside. Star Lab, an embedded security company which provides solutions to defense and commercial customers, recently moved to the Stovehouse development. The company relocated its Huntsville engineering facility to a 4,626 square-foot space at the historic mixed-use development on Governors Drive. […]

HudsonAlpha Receives $1.29M for Digital Storytelling Tool

The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has received a five-year, $1.29 million grant to develop a story-driven digital learning platform for bioinformatics and infectious disease. The grant comes from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the NIH through the Science Education Partnerships Awards (SEPA). The program, called “Filtered,” takes students on a journey of […]

HudsonAlpha Scientist on Forefront of Addressing Rare Diseases

  Alabama is working to be among the leaders in diagnosing rare diseases and Dr. David Bick of HudsonAlpha’s Institute for Biotechnology is part of the strategy. Bick, a clinical geneticist and a faculty investigator at HudsonAlpha, sees rare disease patients at the Smith Family Clinic for Genomic Medicine located on the institute’s Huntsville campus. […]

Huntsville is Mainstage for Worldwide Hackathon

With a pronouncement of “We are going to be to space travel what the Silicon Valley is to electronics,” Dr. Deborah Barnhart, CEO of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, launched a press conference Tuesday of global proportions.

HudsonAlpha Holds Grand Opening for Paul Propst Center

The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday for the Paul Propst Center, the newest addition to the biotech campus.

Baron Weather Research Institute to Aid Transportation

Bob Baron has launched the Baron Critical Weather Institute, which will focus on the unique weather and safety challenges facing the transportation industry.

VT Miltope Opens Headquarters in Huntsville

VT Miltope, a producer of rugged computers, is setting a new course and, with it, moving to the Rocket City. The company announced Wednesday it is moving its headquarters to Huntsville from just outside Montgomery. market leader in ruggedized computers and wireless networking for tactical and aviation applications, is expanding its operations to Huntsville, Alabama. […]

Rapid Growth Spurs LSINC to Purchase Building in CRP

Less than a year from a ribbon-cutting ceremony when it moved into Cummings Research Park, LSINC has now changed addresses with the purchase of its own building elsewhere in the park. The time of rapid growth necessitated the purchase for the Huntsville-based company. It will allow LSINC to better serve current customers, as well as […]