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. The president held a rally at The Broadmoor World Arena.
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Members of the Colorado Springs, Catalyst Campus Commercial Space Operations Center transition exercise operations to the Australian team at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia, during the Watch Hand-off. The December commercial Sprint Advanced Concept Training for Space Situational Awareness exercise allowed the Department of Commerce and Air Force to demonstrate around-the-clock daytime-only operations on three continents.
ASCTE kicks off capital campaign to raise funds for new campus
ASCTE kicks off capital campaign to raise funds for new campus By Kellie Miller | January 8, 2021 at 9:22 AM CST - Updated January 8 at 9:46 AM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - The Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering (ASCTE) is ramping up construction of its permanent campus in Cummings Research Park.
Students are currently based at Oakwood University until the new state-of-the-art facility is ready in 2022.
Right now, 70 students are enrolled in ASCTE but in three years it could be five times that. In fact, by 2024, there could be upwards of 350 to 400 students on the new campus.
Huntsville looks to 2021 with economic confidence, but a lot has changed
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
Posted Jan 01, 2021
Construction continues in August 2020 on the Greene Street parking garage in downtown Huntsville. (Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com)
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When 2020 started, Huntsville’s economy was doing quite well. It had issued 590 non-residential building permits in 2019 alone including the $1.6 billion Mazda Toyota USA Manufacturing facility, a giant Facebook data center and a $150 million tower addition to regional health care giant Huntsville Hospital.
Long-term investments by the federal government on Redstone Arsenal and by aerospace giants in Cummings Research Park had led to major roles for the city in America’s return to the Moon, and new federal tenants such as the FBI were growing fast on the base. The city ended 2020 a finalist to be headquarters home of the country’s new Space Command.
Lockheed Martin purchases Aerojet Rocketdyne in $5 billion deal
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
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Lockheed Martin announced Sunday it has purchased Aerojet Rocketdyne for $5 billion in a transaction involving two major high-tech companies with strong presence in Huntsville.
Lockheed Martin has operated in Cummings Research Park for almost 60 years after being recruited to Huntsville by Wernher von Braun while Aerojet Rocketdyne opened its defense headquarters in the park last year as well as its advanced manufacturing facility in North Huntsville Industrial Park.
The $5 billion sale will be an all-cash transaction, the announcement said.
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been unanimously approved by each company’s board of directors, Lockheed Martin will acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $56.00 per share in cash, representing a premium of approximately 33 percent to Aerojet Rocketdyne’s closing stock price on December 18, 2020 and a premium of approximately 42 pe