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Welcome to one of the country’s leading technology communities. Since the early 1950s, Huntsville, Alabama has been one of the United States’ principal centers for space and defense technology. Home to the work of Dr. Werner von Braun and America’s rocket development programs, the Huntsville community and Redstone Arsenal became the location of choice for the country’s best and brightest aerospace engineers and scientists. Rocket City USA, as the region was known, gave original meaning to the term “rocket science”.

Today, Redstone Arsenal is a diverse federal campus for more than 60 federal agencies and organizations providing the highest level of technology development for national defense and space exploration. Army commands manage key missile and aviation programs while NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is responsible for large components of America’s space program. Other federal agencies perform a wide variety of intelligence and homeland security functions on Redstone. Cummings Research Park, one of the country’s original and largest science and technology parks, is home to many of the 300+ national and international aerospace and defense contractors that call Huntsville home.

The Huntsville community is recognized nationally by Inc. magazine, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal as one of America’s leading technology communities. Local and state leaders provide strong support for business growth including fostering a strong education system, a high quality of life, low costs of living and doing business and the infrastructure needed for companies to attract workers and be successful. With the highest concentration of engineers and technology workers in the country, Huntsville, Alabama continues to be the preferred location for America’s best and brightest.