"...Resolution, LLC, a Huntsville-based veteran-owned small business, has been selected as an awardee for a contract with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) program. The SHIELD contract supports the development of a multi-layered defense architecture designed to provide continuous protection against a range of evolving threats.
Faster acquisition of the technology needed to underpin homeland defense is a strategic goal of SHIELD. SHIELD is a 10-year contract with a $151 billion ceiling..."
Reference: huntsvillebusinessjournal.com
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"...Lockheed Martin has opened its $17 million, 17,000-square-foot Hypersonics System Integration Lab on its Huntsville campus.
The integration facility will bring together advanced test equipment, simulation tools and an integration environment under one roof. The new facility will shorten development cycles and fielding higher performance systems for the U.S. Army...."
Reference: www.al.com
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"...Huntsville is home to a new high-tech defense contractor, Camgian, which cut the ribbon on its Rideout Road office Monday.
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Why it matters: Starkville, Mississippi-based Camgian is an example of the high-tech focus of air and missile defense centered in Huntsville that's going to drive development of Golden Dome and other initiatives. ..."
Reference: www.axios.com
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"...Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has secured a $111 million modification expanding its role in the Space Systems Command’s space-based interceptors effort, increasing the total value of MTSI’s systems engineering, integration and testing contract to $226.9 million. The work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, through Jan. 10, 2030, the Department of Defense said. SSC obligated $1.6 million at the time of the award.
What Was Updated in the Modification Notice?..."
Reference: www.govconwire.com
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"...The Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) seekers work with the PAC-3 interceptor to identify, track and destroy hypersonic threats, hostile aircraft and ballistic and cruise missiles. ..."
Reference: www.al.com
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"...HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Cummings Aerospace, a small business based in Huntsville, Alabama, recently introduced a new drone the company believes can play a part in the Golden Dome missile defense architecture.
The Hellhound S4 is a tube-launched, turbo-jet-powered unmanned aircraft that can carry a variety of payloads, the company’s CEO Sheila Cummings said in an interview at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in August. ..."
Reference: www.nationaldefensemagazine.org
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Article Title: Trump Set to Announce US Space Command Will Move to Alabama
Snippet of Article: "...President Donald Trump is set to announce that he’s basing US Space Command in Huntsville, Alabama
The decision is a win for Alabama’s Republican-dominated congressional delegation and Governor Kay Ivey. Colorado’s elected officials, including Governor Jared..."
Source: www.bloomberg.com
[tag] US Space Command Will Move to Alabama, Trump Action,Huntsville Alabama, Rocket City, [/tag]
"...Huntsville, Alabama, is positioned to play a central role in one of the nation’s most ambitious defense initiatives. The Golden Dome missile defense program—a proposed multi-layer system combining space-based sensors, interceptors, and ground assets—aims to counter emerging missile threats, including maneuverable hypersonics and advanced cruise missiles. Announced by President Trump in early 2025, the program could drive billions in federal investment and reshape Huntsville’s already robust defense sector.
The defense and aerospace industry is Huntsville’s largest employer, with more than 70,000 workers and over $6 billion in annual economic impact ..."
Reference: huntsvillebusinessjournal.com
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"...The University of Alabama in Huntsville announced Thursday that it was offering up to $8,000 in scholarship money to graduates of Space Camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. ..."
Reference: www.al.com
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"...Gov. Kay Ivey is also feeling good about Space Command coming to Alabama. She says she’s already been working with The White House and is confident that it’s only a matter of time.
“We’re counting on it coming here,” she said. “We’ve been in touch with President Trump and his staff, and we are very optimistic that it will soon be officially announced that Space Command is coming to Huntsville.”..."
Reference: www.waff.com
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"...Media are invited to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, at 2 p.m. CDT Thursday, Aug. 14 to view the final piece of space flight hardware for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the Artemis II mission before it is delivered to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All other elements of the SLS rocket for Artemis II are stacked on mobile launcher 1 in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy. Artemis II, NASA’s first mission with crew aboard the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, is currently scheduled for a 10-day trip around the Moon no later than April 2026.
The Orion stage adapter, built by NASA Marshall, connects the SLS rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage to NASA’s Orion spacecraft. The small ring structure is the..."
Reference: www.nasa.gov
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"L3Harris helps develop the missiles used by troops around the globe. ...“We’re seeing that demand signal, and we’re prepared for it,” said Mark Farley, the Vice President of Site Operations & Manufacturing at Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris company.
The company recently opened a second solid rocket motor manufacturing facility in Huntsville.
“The components that we’re making here go into the solid rocket motor,” Farley said. ..."
Reference: whnt.com
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"...The U.S. Army is about three months away from releasing its air and missile defense strategy for 2040, Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey, commander of the service’s Space and Missile Defense Command, said Tuesday at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium.
One year ago, at the same conference in Huntsville, Alabama, Gainey announced that a strategy was in the works to address a variety of new and emerging complex threats and would roll that document out in October 2025. ..."
Reference: www.defensenews.com
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"Defending America at Home and
Abroad ...The SMD Symposium is the leading educational, professional development and networking event in the space and missile defense community. The symposium is widely attended by leaders and professionals from the United States and our allies around the world...."
Reference: smdsymposium.org
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"...budget request instead puts emphasis on investing in the private space industry...The White House previewed the cuts in a budget outline released last month. In that document, the administration called for the elimination of the Space Launch System and its Orion crew capsule, dismissing them as, “grossly expensive and delayed.” ..."
Reference: www.al.com
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"President Trump recommended cuts to multiple federal programs, including ones that would affect the Rocket City. ..."
Reference: https://spotonalabama.com/al-mountains/1269368/proposed-2026-budget-phases-out-sls-rocket.html
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"...A key missile defense component manufactured by Boeing in Huntsville has been named the “coolest thing made in Alabama” this year.
Manufacture Alabama, a trade association for the state’s manufacturers and partner industries, announced the award for the company’s Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) seeker Thursday at the conclusion of its annual Manufacturing Madness competition.
The PAC-3 seeker component allows the Patriot air defense system’s interceptors to identify, track and defeat threats, including hostile aircraft and ballistic and cruise missiles. Patriot is fielded by U.S. forces and global allies. Boeing produces the seekers as a subcontractor to Lockheed..."
Reference: www.al.com
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"...“There remains no doubt Redstone Arsenal should be home to the permanent Space Command Headquarters,” Sen. Britt (R-Montgomery) said in a statement.
“Huntsville finished first in the Air Force’s Evaluation Phase and Selection Phase and had the most advantages in the decision matrix, a point I raised to Secretary Hegseth in our meeting prior to his Senate confirmation and something I know the Secretary of the Air Force will take into consideration once confirmed.”..."
Reference: yellowhammernews.com
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"...Defense and aerospace contractor Peraton cut the ribbon Tuesday on a new 27,000-square-foot facility in the Redstone Gateway.
Peraton serves multiple federal customers, including the Defense Intelligence Agency/Missile and Space Intelligence Center, US Army, FBI, Missile Defense Agency, and NASA. ..."
Reference: www.al.com
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"...Fans of billionaire Elon Musk are now saying that a book written more than 70 years ago by the rocket scientist who helped put Huntsville on the map predicted the SpaceX and Tesla CEO becoming the leader of Mars.
A portion of the 1953 book “Mars Project” by aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, who led development of rocket technology for the Nazi party in Germany and later developed rockets in Alabama.
In the book, von Braun says that “the government of Mars consisted of ten men.”..."
Reference: www.military.com
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