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| September 2007 |
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Fasten Your Seat Belts (9/17)
"Fasten your seat belts," says Alan Stern, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "One of NASA's most amazing programs is about to get even better."
He's talking about Discovery--the adventurous NASA program that gave us the first rover on another planet (Mars Pathfinder), the first landing on an asteroid (NEAR's touchdown on 433 Eros), the first sample return from a comet (Stardust), the first sample return from the Sun (Genesis) and the possible discovery of water at the Moon's poles (Lunar Prospector).
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| August 2007 |
- Avocent's new launch improves remote technology management (8/7)
Cyclades Console Server was created for small, midsize data centers
Huntsville-based Avocent Corp. launched a new line of Linux-based serial console management switches Monday to improve remote management of computer equipment in small and midsize data centers and server rooms.
- SANMINA-SCI DEFENSE AND AEROSPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION’S FIRECOMM™ SELECTED BY WARNER ROBINS AIR LOGISTICS CENTER
Airborne Intercommunications System Part of United States Air Force F-15 Redesign
SAN JOSE, Calif. – August 1, 2007 – Sanmina-SCI Corporation (Nasdaq NM: SANM), a leading global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company, today announced its Defense and Aerospace Systems Division has been awarded a contract by the United States Air Force under the Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC) program administered by the Defense Technical Information Center to redesign the F-15C/D Integrated Communication Control Panel (ICCP).
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| April 2007 |
- Ovarian cancer drug study shows early promise (4/17)
Expression Genetics 'quite pleased' with phase I results
The Huntsville Times - Huntsville-based Expression Genetics announced the completion of a phase I clinical study for a possible drug to treat ovarian cancer. The study on the EGEN-001 drug candidate was conducted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Baylor College of Medicine, according to a company news release.
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| March 2007 |
- Open Biosystems Launches ORFeome Collaboration Clones (3/26)
A sequence-verified ORF collection for gene functional analysis
Huntsville, AL - Open Biosystems, Inc., a provider of tools for gene functional analysis, announced the initial release of ORFeome Collaboration Clones.
- Nissan Develops Crime-Buster Paint (3/26)
Nissan Motor is working with research partners to formulate a new type of paint that could make it easier for police to identify hit-and-run drivers based on residue left at the accident scene... Nissan is partnering with Operon Biotechnologies of Huntsville, Ala., and Tsunehiko Higuchi, a Nagoya City University professor of pharmaceutical sciences on the project.
- Avocent Announces New Wireless VGA Module Revolutionizing Digital Signage Media Distribution
(3/15)Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT), today announced a new wireless VGA and audio module for the professional A/V market.
- Icon Systems wins Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Combat Vehicle System (MILES CVS) SAN DIEGO, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego based Icon Systems, Inc., has been awarded a contract to provide Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) Combat Vehicle Systems (CVS) to the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). The contract, awarded through Tec-Masters, Inc., is worth $35 million if all options are exercised.
- Lockheed Martin Awarded $311 Million Arrowhead Modernized Tads/Pnvs Production Contract (3/5)
ORLANDO, FL, March 5, 2007 -- The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] a follow-on production contract for Arrowhead®, the new electro-optical system for AH-64 Apache combat helicopter pilots. The contract, valued at $311 million, was signed during a ceremony at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command in Huntsville, AL on February 28.
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| November 2006 |
- STI Electronics adds cleanroom to Alabama facility (PDF, 11/22)
Global SMT & Packaging - Glastonbury,UK
(STI), a full-service electronics organization, announces the addition of a cleanroom environment to its facility located in Madison, Alabama. ...
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| September 2006 |
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| July 2006 |
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| June 2006 |
- Huntsville software maker helps keep aging Venice afloat (6/16)
Birmingham News
An Alabama software company is a key part in one of the most intricate engineering jobs on the planet: preventing the erosion of Venice, the Italian city built in the middle of a lagoon. Huntsville-based Intergraph Corp. has been providing software to engineers on the project for about 15 years. Thursday, the company said its software is part of the most ambitious part of the effort to date. ..
- GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Completes Acquisition of SBS Technologies(6/8)
ZDNetIndia - Mumbai,India
... Memorial Pkwy, Huntsville, AL 35803, Phone: (800) 322-3616, Fax: (256) 882-0859, e-mail: info.embeddedsystems@gefanuc.com. GE Fanuc Automation, Inc. ...
- dealnews.com Makes PC World’s Top 100 of 2006
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
Huntsville, AL, June 01, 2006 --(PR.COM)-- dealnews.com, Inc., a leader in tracking online bargains, is ranked #24 in the just-released PC World 100 Best ...
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| March 2006 |
- ADTRAN Enhances Carrier Ethernet Capabilities; Technology Assets Acquired from Luminous Networks (3/30)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ADTRAN(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading supplier of next-generation network solutions, today announced that the company has enhanced its carrier Ethernet capabilities with the acquisition of all intellectual property and world-wide product rights from Luminous Networks. In addition to integrating the Luminous technologies into existing and future ADTRAN products, the company will continue to manufacture selected Luminous products.
- Avocent Partners With Electrograph to Expand Presence in Audio-Visual Channel
Connectivity and control solutions take a greater leap into professional audio-visual distribution (3/17)
HUNTSVILLE, AL – Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT), a leading provider of audio-visual connectivity and control solutions, today announced the expansion of its presence in the audio-visual channel, teaming up with Electrograph Systems, Inc., a top distributor of professional audio-video systems. Electrograph will now offer Avocent connectivity and control products to its nationwide base of resellers and systems integrators
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| January 2006 |
- Open Biosystems Announces Availability of Lentiviral shRNAmir Library; Lentiviral shRNAmir Vectors Allow Efficient Gene Silencing in Primary & Non-Dividing Cells (1/24)
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA
Open Biosystems, Inc., focused on the commercialization of leading-edge life science research tools for drug discovery, today announced the availability of its lentiviral microRNA-adapted short hairpin RNA (shRNAmir) library.....
- MSFC to breathe life into space base
Support system could solve oxygen problems at station (1/24)
NASA's $50 million Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is a mass of wires, tubes and metal pipes - and looks like a plumbing school training aid. But to space hardware engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center, looks come second to function.
- Marshall helps push New Horizons
$700M Pluto probe set to take off today atop Titan V rocket (1/17)
A $700 million Pluto probe slated to be launched today will be riding on a column of smoke and fire generated by a Titan rocket and on the expertise of Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center.
- Chandra turns from far space, looks at Earth
Telescope finds aurora borealis filled with X-rays (1/16)
The orbiting Chandra X-ray telescope generally plucks secrets from far-flung galaxies and star clusters, but Huntsville scientists have used the telescope for the first time to look back on planet Earth.
- VoIP Magazine Names Digium as One of the Top 20 Companies to Watch (1/5)
eCoustics.com (press release) - USA
HUNTSVILLE, AL and SAN FRANCISCO, CA-- (January 4, 2005)-- Digium Inc., the creator of Asterisk® and pioneer of open source telephony, announced today that ...
- Chandra Looks Back At Earth (1/3)
Aero-News Network - FL,USA
... The researchers -- led by Dr. Ron Elsner of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL -- used Chandra to observe the Earth 10 times over a four ...
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| December 2005 |
- Open Biosystems' shRNAmir Technology Adopted by Duke University, National Institutes of Health, Lee Moffitt and Fox Chase Cancer Centers (12/19)
MicroRNA-adapted Short Hairpin RNA Library Helps Researchers at Four Cancer Centers Identify Tumor Suppressors, Potentially Advancing Treatment Options
Open Biosystems, Inc., focused on the commercialization of leading-edge life science research tools for drug discovery, today announced that four renowned cancer centers have adopted the company's short hairpin RNA (shRNAmir) technology to aid in the identification of advanced cancer treatment options. Duke University, the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute, Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Fox Chase Cancer Center have invested in human and/or mouse shRNAmir whole genome libraries to accelerate research related to cancer biology and drug discovery......
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| November 2005 |
- Terra Soft Assists Colsa to Gain 15 of Top500.org
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In June 2004, COLSA, located in Huntsville, Alabama, began construction of their 1,566-node Apple Xserve G5 cluster for the United Stated Army. In late 2004, COLSA contracted Terra Soft to help prepare a system-wide Linux installation using the then beta Y-HPC cluster construction and management suite.
- Using laser beams and electric fields, NASA researchers are probing the curious behavior of moondust. (11/21)
.... These are questions Abbas is investigating in his "Dusty Plasma Laboratory" at the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama.....
- Firm says test speeds detection of bird flu
Huntsville's Genaco currently working with China officials (11/17)
A Huntsville biomedical company has developed a test that it says can detect all known strains of the avian flu and other respiratory-related bacteria and viruses within four hours...
- Open Biosystems Acquires Exclusive License to Tranzyme Pharma's Proprietary Trans-Lentiviral Vector Technology; Open Biosystems Provides Researchers and Biopharmaceutical Industry Access to Products and Services based on Trans-Lentiviral Technology (11/14)
- COLSA Upgrades World's Largest Apple Cluster to High-Speed Myricom Solution (11/8)
ARCADIA, Calif. & HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--COLSA Corp., a provider of high-performance computing systems and services to government agencies, has completed upgrading the world's largest Apple-based cluster to high-speed Myricom interconnect technology...
- A job for Rocket City
Expect similarities but no Apollo clone for lunar missions (11/6)
Working in secret, engineers in Huntsville are competing to come up with the design for the spacecraft that will take astronauts back to the moon.
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| September 2005 |
- Intel, Digium Jointly Develop Channel Driver to Enable Asterisk Business Edition on Intel Building Blocks (9/20)
TMCnet (press release) - USA
HUNTSVILLE, AL - (September 20, 2005) -Digium Inc., the creator of Asterisk and pioneer of open source telephony, today announced that it will incorporate ...
- Arrowsight Opens Food and Beverage Division Office in Huntsville , AL (9/13)
The Open Press (press release) - USA
Arrowsight Opens Food and Beverage Division Office in Huntsville, AL, Appoints Mark W. Moshier President. Mt. Kisco, NY ...
- Cabinet NG Announces Support for Intuit's QuickBooks 2006; CNG-Books is the First Document Management Solution to Deliver the Performance and Integration that QuickBooks 2006 Mid-Sized Businesses Users Demand (9/13)
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco
... process. Cabinet NG is privately held and headquartered near Huntsville, Alabama. For more information, visit www.cabinetng.com.
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| August 2005 |
- Avocent® Announces First Integrated Solution of Serial over LAN and Console Management
Enables Access to IPMI for Simplified Data Center Management (8/8)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT) extends its leadership in providing connectivity solutions with the addition of IPMI Serial over LAN (SoL) functionality to its CCM console management appliances. Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) and SoL are rapidly gaining momentum as the next-generation industry standard for server and data center device management. IPMI-enabled servers are currently shipping from Dell, IBM and other OEMs. Continue »
- National Space Science center gets 5-year extension (8/2)
The contract between NASA and Alabama's research universities which form Huntsville's National Space Science and Technology Center, or NSSTC, has been extended for an additional five years, NASA and University of Alabama in Huntsville officials announced Monday. Continue »
- Planet gives city native star turn
Grissom grad has 'nerve-racking' wait to announce find (8/2)
A Huntsville-born scientist is behind the discovery of a possible 10th planet in the solar system. Dr. Mike Brown, with the California Institute of Technology, actually discovered the yet-to-be-named planet in January with Chad Trujillo, of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii, and David Rabinowitz of Yale University. However, they had to wait to get time on the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to confirm their findings. Continue »
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| July 2005 |
- Intergraph Featured on ABC News
Video Analyst System a Weapon Against Terrorism (7/25)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.-- Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ: INGR): Video Analyst System a Weapon against Terrorism Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ: INGR)was recently featured in an ABC News report on high-tech video as a weapon against terrorism. Continue »
- Intergraph Wins Air Force Process Improvement Contract
Company Provides Expertise for Military Operational Excellence Programs (7/20)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 20, 2005 – Intergraph Corporation announced today it has signed a four-year contract with the U.S. Air Force worth up to $11.4 million to deploy and manage operational excellence programs. The contract covers Continuous Process Improvement/Lean/Six Sigma programs for the Air Force Materiel Command at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Ga. Continue »
- DRS Technologies Receives $16.8 Million Contract to Provide .Embedded Diagnostics Systems for U.S. Army Combat Vehicles (7/14)
Parsippany, NJ, - DRS Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: DRS) announced today that it was awarded a $16.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to deliver new embedded diagnostics systems for installation on the M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles. ...Work for this order will be accomplished by the company's DRS Test & Energy Management unit in Huntsville, Alabama. Product ... Continue »
- Open Biosystems to Distribute Kreatech's Universal Linkage System (ULS) for Nucleic Acid & Protein Labeling (7/5)
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands and HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Kreatech Biotechnology BV and Open Biosystems today announced a partnership whereby Open Biosystems will exclusively supply Kreatech's ULS(TM) solutions to laboratories in the United States. The partnership will expand US life science investigators access to innovative non-enzymatic nucleic acid & protein labeling solutions. Kreatech's Universal Linkage System (ULS(TM)) allows for the rapid attachment of a variety of labels directly to DNA, RNA and proteins. These products are centered around a proprietary platinum-based system that produces highly stable labels under a wide variety of conditions. The ULS(TM) products are available with a wide variety of industry standard dyes, offering a versatile solution for the labeling of RNA in microarray and DNA in CGH applications. Continue »
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| June 2005 |
- Cray Inc. Wins Order for Two Supercomputers for U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (6/30)
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... The Cray X1E upgrade with 32 multistreaming vector processors is scheduled to be installed this month at SMDC's Simulation Center in Huntsville, AL, where it ...
- Winning the Globalization Game (6/21)
Managing Automation Magazine - New York,NY,USA
Not long ago, manufacturers such as telecommunications equipment maker Huntsville, AL-based ADTRAN Inc. launched the globalization ... Continue »
- MTC Wins Share of $20 Billion AMCOM Express Award (6/22)
MTC is on the winning team of Analytical Services, Inc. (ASI), a small business in the “Business and Analytical” domain. MTC is also a subcontractor to CAS, Inc. (CAS), which won a large business award in the “Programmatic” domain. Both ASI and CAS are headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. ... Continue »
- $48.4M for Rapid Aerostat Deployment System (updated) (6/14)
Defense Industry Daily - Chesapeake City,MD,USA
.. Work under the contract will be done by Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems in Andover, MA and Huntsville, AL, along with support from Raytheon Technical ... Continue »
- ADTRAN Expands Industry-Leading Total Access Series With New Carrier-Class VoIP Integrated Access Devices
ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN), the market-leader for packet/IP and TDM-based Integrated Access Devices ... Continue »
- Digium and Cepstral Announce Text-To-Speech Partnership for Linux ... Market Wire (press release) - USA (6/6)
PITTSBURGH, PA and HUNTSVILLE, AL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Digium and Cepstral announced a partnership agreement today to provide Cepstral Swift Text ... See all stories on this topic Continue »
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| May 2005 |
- NASA's Chandra finds Saturn reflects X-Rays from
Sun Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow, UK
HUNTSVILLE, AL, UNITED STATES (UPI) -- When it comes to mysterious X-rays from Saturn, the ringed planet may act as a mirror, reflecting explosive activity ... Continue »
- Quantum3D Receives Follow-On Production Award from General Dynamics for U.S. Army Stryker Embedded Training Graphics Subsystems (5/16)
Quantum3D is a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, CA, with development centers located in Phoenix, AZ, Huntsville, AL, and Orlando, FL. ... Continue (PDF) »
- Virtual Media Now Available in Avocent DSView® 3 Management Software (5/3)
Huntsville, AL (OPENPRESS) -- Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT), the leading supplier of connectivity solutions for enterprise data centers, today... Continue »
- NASA TV'S Digital Conversion Detailed in Engineering Telecons (5/2)
NASA - Washington,DC,USA
... Grubbs, of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has headed the agency's television digital-conversion effort since it was initiated in ... Continue »
- Boeing, Lockheed Martin to Form Launch Services Joint Venture (5/2)
The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) have entered into an agreement to create a joint venture that will combine the production, engineering, test and launch operations associated with U.S. government launches of Boeing Delta and Lockheed Martin Atlas rockets. The joint venture, named United Launch Alliance, will reduce the cost of meeting the critical national security and NASA expendable launch vehicle needs of the United States. Continue »
- The Avocent DSView® 3 Software Named One of Midmarket ‘Products of the Year' by CMP’S VARBusiness Magazine (5/2)
Huntsville, AL -- Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ:AVCT) today announced that the DSView ® 3 management software was named a midmarket "Product of ... Continue »
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| March 2005 |
- Young techies "get their wings" at space camp (3/24)
- Avocent Corporation Earns Five-Star Rating
eCoustics.com (press release) - USA
Huntsville, AL, March 21, 2005 -- Avocent Corporation, (NASDAQ: AVCT) today was recognized by CMP Media's VARBusiness magazine as one of North America's top ... Continue »
- Intergraph Ships SmartPlant Instrumentation 7.0
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, March 11, 2005 - Intergraph Corporation is shipping SmartPlant® Instrumentation 7.0, the intelligent life cycle software for... Continue »
- Digium Launches The Asterisk Business Edition
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- Raytheon Demonstrates Homeland Defense Capability Using A2C2S
PRNewswire-FirstCall – March 1, 2005
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., -- A command and control system designed by Raytheon Company for the U.S. Army, recently demonstrated its ability to support the Army National Guard's homeland defense mission. Called Army Airborne Command and Control System (A2C2S), the flying tactical operations center has logged more than two thousand hours in support of combat and peacekeeping missions in the Middle East. On February 24th, during a Homeland Defense Communications Module concept demonstration, the system proved that it could track and control first responder vehicles, retransmit video and "crossband" otherwise incompatible communications systems. Continue »
- TEAMS Week features robotics expert: Technology expo also targets young professionals
The Huntsville Times – March 2, 2005
A co-founder of the company whose products include the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner and the bomb disposal robot PackBot is among the speakers scheduled during TEAMS Week 2005. Helen Greiner, iRobot Corp. chairman, will speak during one of five sessions in the fourth annual Southeastern Software Engineering Conference that's held during Technology Exposition for Advancing multi-Market Solutions, or TEAMS, Week. The event runs March 28 through April 1 at the Von Braun Center and is designed to build relationships among the business community, government and academia. TEAMS also aims to promote the Huntsville community nationally as a technology center. Greiner was recently named "Innovator for the Next Century" by Technology Review magazine and the Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneurs of the Year for 2003, along with another iRobot co-founder, Colin Angle. Continue »
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