New Radiance Technologies facility ‘brings family back together’

There will be a family reunion when Radiance Technologies’ new headquarters is finished next year. At the company’s ground-breaking ceremony, Radiance President Bill Bailey said they were ‘bringing the family back together.” The employee-owned company will be housed in a 100,000 square-foot facility in Cummings Research Park bringing the 500-member “family” together from its current […]

HudsonAlpha ‘Cloud Whisperer’ to present at Google conference

SAN FRANCISCO – HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology Technology Director Katreena Mullican has been invited to present at the Google Next ‘18 conference. Google Next is an international conference where more than 10,000 developers, technology leaders, and entrepreneurs come together to have a collaborative discussion about the Google Cloud Platform. The conference is Tuesday through Thursday. […]

BAE expansion in Cummings Research Park to create hundreds of jobs

“It’s rainy outside but we have sunny news today.” And, with those words, Joe Newberry, past chair of the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber, began Monday’s economic announcement. BAE Systems announced a $45.5 million project to expand its operations in Huntsville’s Cummings Research Park. The expansion will bring hundreds of jobs and the new building is expected […]

Teledyne to start space-based imaging

A Teledyne Brown Engineering-built sensor system will soon be sending images from the International Space Station. Teledyne Technologies announced the successful launch of the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) to the International Space Station (ISS) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.  Over the next three months, the DESIS instrument, designed and built by the […]

‘Strong community partner’ LG Electronics expands in Huntsville with solar panel plant

Life’s good in Huntsville – literally and figuratively. LG Electronics, a long-time player in Huntsville has business announced plans for a $28 million solar panel assembly plant. The plant will create 160 jobs and workers will assemble LG’s “Neon 2” series 60-cell modules. The high-performance solar panels will generate more than 17 percent more power […]

BWX Technologies: Huntsville’s nuclear option

Huntsville has undergone several identities over the past century: From cotton capital to the Rocket City to the Silicon Valley of the South.

Now, there’s a new addition to the city’s monikers – The New Wave of Nuclear.

CFDRC acquisition to speed discovery of new antibiotics

A pair of HudsonAlpha companies are combining to speed the discovery of new antibiotics. CFD Research Corp. has acquired the drug discovery division of iXpressGenes; both are associate companies at Huntsville-based HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. As part of the acquisition, CFDRC obtained iXG’s high-throughput antimicrobial discovery platform called EMAD (Extremophilic Microbiome Antimicrobial Discovery) and all […]

Facebook likes Huntsville; company to build $750 million data center

It’s the perfect connection: A digital giant and a high-tech capital. So, when Facebook announced it was building a large-scale data center, it was no surprise.

Planes, drones, special missions aircraft on display at Sierra Nevada Industry Day

MERIDIANVILLE — A cost-effective solution for retrofitting old Black Hawk helicopters with the most technologically advanced electronics and equipment was unveiled recently by Sierra Nevada. The event was held during Sierra Nevada’s Industry Day at the company’s facility at the Huntsville Executive Airport. SNC acquired the older model Air Force UH-60L Black Hawk through Huntsville’s […]

FBI’s Abbate says cyber threats ‘more complex’ than ever

The associate deputy director of the FBI had an ominous warning Wednesday at the 2018 National Cyber Summit. “When will a cyber 9/11 occur?” he asked the audience. “… it’s already begun.”