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December 23, 2010
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Business Intelligence Report
January,
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Aerojet to Expand Huntsville Operations |
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Aetos Systems Grows in Huntsville |
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“Master of the Message” to Deliver Keynote at Chamber’s Annual Membership Meeting |
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Huntsville/Madison County Builders Association Wins Top Honors in the State |
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Chamber’s Annual Wage Survey Kicks off Soon |
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Member News |
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Contracts of Interest
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Camber Corp. was awarded a $13,094,877 firm-fixed-price level-of-effort contract. This award provides support for small arms readiness evaluation teams to inspect and repair Army weapons at various installations worldwide. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2011. Two bids were solicited and one bid was received. The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armament Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity |
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Raytheon Co. is being awarded a $209,027,172 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to exercise an option for the procurement of 196 fiscal 2011 Tomahawk Block IV all up round missiles. The Tomahawk Block IV missile is capable of launch from surface ships equipped with the vertical launch system (VLS); submarines equipped with the capsule launch system (CLS); and submarines equipped with the torpedo tube launch system. This modification provides for the procurement of 132 VLS and 64 CLS missiles. The work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz. (32 percent); Walled Lake, Mich. (9 percent); Camden, Ark. (8 percent); Anniston, Ala. (5 percent); Glenrothes, Scotland (5 percent); Huntsville, Ala. (4 percent); Minneapolis, Minn. (4 percent); Midland Ontario, Canada (4 percent); Fort Wayne, Ind. (4 percent); Ontario, Calif. (3 percent); Spanish Fork, Utah (3 percent); El Segundo, Calif. (2 percent); Westminster, Colo. (2 percent); Vergennes, Vt. (2 percent); Middletown, Conn. (2 percent); Largo, Fla. (2 percent); Farmington, N.M. (0.2 percent); and various locations throughout the United States (8.8 percent). Work is expected to be completed in July 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. |
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Camber Corp. is being awarded a $19,397,932 modification under a previously awarded contract to exercise an option for technical and educational support services to the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Civil Military Relations education and training program. Work will be performed in Kailua, Hawaii (2 percent); Huntsville, Ala. (2 percent); Monterey, Calif. (9 percent); Tampa, Fla. (2 percent); various continental U.S. locations (17 percent); and various outside the continental U.S. locations (68 percent), and work is expected to be completed by December 2011. Contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. This effort includes services for the governments Austria, Egypt, Indonesia, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia (all less than 1 percent)under the Foreign Military Sales Program. This contract was competitively procured via Navy Electronic Commerce Online, with two offers received. The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity. |
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| Announcements |
Aerojet to Expand Huntsville Operations
Company Plans to Grow in the Southeast U.S.
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Scott Seymour, Aerojet President
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Aerojet recently announced plans to expand its presence in the Huntsville community by hiring 25 additional engineers. This growth will allow Aerojet to provide collaborative engineering expertise, program management support and business development outreach to government and prime customers located in the Huntsville area and across the Southeastern United States.“Huntsville is an important location for our DoD, NASA and industry customers,” said Scott Seymour, Aerojet President and GenCorp President & CEO. “Growing Aerojet’s technical capabilities in Huntsville will allow us to better serve our customers and expand Aerojet’s business base.”
Don Nalley, Chair of the Board of Directors, Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County, praised the company for investing in the Huntsville community.
“I want to thank Scott and the Aerojet corporate team for investing in our community and for the confidence shown in our community,” Nalley said. “It is a very competitive environment we are in. We certainly appreciate the fact that Aerojet could’ve selected other communities to invest in, but instead recognized what we see – our community is a smart place to live, work and play and a place where businesses know the sky truly is not the limit.”
Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle also praised the announcement.
“You bring a tradition of excellence to this community. And that excellence helps us grow our community and our economy,” Battle said.
Aerojet’s expanded presence in Huntsville will provide a better customer interface for all business development and engineering activities, Seymour said. This includes not only Aerojet’s DoD and NASA customers, but its prime contractors, supplier partners, local and regional universities, professional societies and community development organizations as well. The expansion also will enable Aerojet to examine new product opportunities related to the company’s current business base and Huntsville’s expanding aerospace and defense market opportunities.
The additional Aerojet engineers will include technical expertise in solid, liquid and gel propulsion; warheads, specialty metals and fire suppression systems. They will provide face-to-face, hands-on technical interaction with all of the company’s Huntsville customers for current and future programs. They also will serve as an integral link to the breadth of technical and programmatic capabilities across Aerojet.
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Aetos Systems Grows in Huntsville
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| Donna Coleman, President and CEO of Aetos Systems, and John Coleman, executive vice president, cut the ribbon for the company’s new office in Huntsville. |
Aetos Systems recently held a ribbon cutting to celebrate the growth of the company and its new office in Huntsville.
Aetos, founded in 2007 with just one employee, has seen exponential growth during the last three years, according to the company’s founder Donna Coleman. The company now has 17 employees and revenue of $6.5 million.
Coleman says the company plans to continue that growth.
“There are tremendous growth opportunities for us as we plan for strategic growth. We have been honored by the great support of the community. There is no better place than Huntsville to start a small business,” she said.
Don Nalley, Chair of the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County Board of Directors, said that Huntsville’s reputation is seen in companies like Aetos.
“A company like Aetos Systems illustrates that we are growing with quality people and quality companies that reinforce our community as a smart place to live, work and play.” said Nalley
Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle said that the key to the success of this community is the team work.
“What is most unique about this community is that we know how to work together. You will keep us as a community moving forward,” Battle said.
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“Master of the Message” to Deliver Keynote at Chamber’s Annual Membership Meeting
Mark Penn, noted corporate and political strategist, and author of the book Microtrends, will deliver the keynote address at the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County’s 75th Annual Membership Meeting, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 at the Von Braun Center North Hall.Penn has been called “The Master of the Message” by Time magazine and “The Guru of Small Things” by The New York Times. He is credited with inventing both the overnight poll, now standard in high-profile elections; and the “mall test” – a method of showing shoppers prospective ads and learning their reactions in real time.
Penn helped to elect more than 25 leaders in the United States, Asia, Latin America, and Europe in addition to serving as chief adviser to President Bill Clinton in the 1996 presidential election and to Hillary Rodham Clinton through her Senate and presidential races. Penn also serves as a strategic consultant to top Fortune 500 companies, including Ford Motor Company, Merck, Verizon, BP, McDonald’s and Microsoft, and has been a key adviser to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer since 1998. In 2000 and 2004, Penn was awarded the highest honor in his profession, the American Association of Political Consultants’ “Pollster of the Year” Award.
The Annual Membership Meeting, presented by S3, will also be the site for the honoring of the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor the Chamber bestows upon a community leader. The event begins at 11:30 a.m. To register, click here.
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Huntsville/Madison County Builders Association Wins Top Honors in the State
At the Home Builders Association of Alabama’s annual meeting the Huntsville/Madison County Builders Association received the President’s Trophy for the Best Large Association in the State of Alabama.
The Huntsville/Madison County Builders Association was also the recipient of six President’s Awards in the following categories:
- Best Education Program
- Best Public Relations Program
- Best General Membership Meeting
- Best Service to Members
- Best Communications to Members
- Best ABPAC Fundraising Program
The Huntsville/Madison County Builders Association competed for these awards against other local home builders associations in the State of Alabama.
They also installed the 2011 slate of officers and executive committee members as follows.
- President: Steve Steele, Steve Steele Custom Homes
- 1st Vice President: Todd Slyman, Slyman Construction Company
- Governmental Affairs Chair: Sandra Steele, Enfinger Steele Development
- Past Associates Committee Presidents Chair: Jimmy Jones, Associated Masonry Products
- Presidential Appointee: John Allen, Southern Construction & Design
- Presidential Appointee: Jim Neighbors, Old Towne Homebuilders
The Huntsville/Madison County Builders Association is a non-profit trade organization representing the residential and light commercial building industry in the Madison County area.
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Chamber’s Annual Wage Survey Kicks off Soon
The Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County’s annual Wage Survey will kick off Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. The Wage Survey costs $130 to Chamber member participants. The Chamber annually conducts a wage survey for its membership. The Chamber encourages all members to participate in the survey to ensure that the survey remains a valuable resource for the business community by providing an accurate picture of wage and salary rates for benchmark positions in the Huntsville/Madison County area. Survey results are coded to ensure the confidentiality of each participant.
For more information or if you would like to participate in the Survey, please contact Amy Locke, alocke@hsvchamber.org or 256-535-2083.
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Ribbon Cuttings (Click photo to enlarge)
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Wright Line Ribbon Cutting
Chamber of Commerce Auditorium
Dec. 15
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Stream Cosmetics Ribbon Cutting
Chamber of Commerce Auditorium
Dec. 14
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Grogan Jewelers Ribbon Cutting
Bridge Street Town Centre. Huntsville, AL 35806, Dec. 14
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Commerce Kitchen Ribbon Cutting
300 Franklin Street Huntsville, AL 35801
Dec. 9
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Hardin-Junkin & Company Wealth Solutions, LLC Ribbon Cutting
203 Greene Street, Suite 310 Huntsville, AL 35801, Dec. 7
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Global Recruiters of Huntsville Ribbon Cutting
125 Northside Square Suite 100 Huntsville, AL 35801, Dec. 6
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2 Invite U Ribbon Cutting
7830 Highway 72 W Ste 280, Madison, AL 35758, Dec. 1
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| Ribbon Cutting Ceremonies are a great way to introduce your business! Take advantage of this free service provided by the Chamber of Commerce for its members.
Visit the photo gallery of the recent ribbon cutting events. »
Upcoming Ribbon Cutting events »
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