SUMMA Technology Inc.*, Huntsville, Ala., was awarded on July 11, 2007, a delivery order amount of $26,912,818 as part of a $78,016,971 firm-fixed-price contract for the Container Roll In/Out Platform. Work will be performed in Cullman, Ala., and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on Dec. 21, 2005, and six bids were received. The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-06-D-0269).

Most of us know about biotechnology, the combination of biology and technology.

Now Calhoun Community College is offering a 2-year degree in Biotechnology.

This is the only program like it in the state.

Researching the human genome and DNA has always been left up to post graduate and upper division schools, until now.

Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville is partnering with Calhoun Community College.

Huntsville, AL (OPENPRESS) June 29, 2007 -- ADTRAN®, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading supplier of networking equipment, today announced that MegaPath, a leading provider of managed IP voice, data and security services in North America, has selected ADTRAN’s NetVanta® 3120 and 3130 IP Fixed-port Access Routers for deployments with their services to Small and Midsized Business (SMB) and Enterprise customers.

“ADTRAN’s NetVanta routers provide the business-class features we need at an attractive price point,” said Beth Tyebjee, senior vice president of marketing, MegaPath. “These products give us a compelling hardware solution offering Virtual Private Networking (VPN), dial back-up, and Quality of Service for Voice over IP (VoIP) applications. In addition, these platforms offer superior quality and reliability. This is especially important for our SMB and Enterprise customers where downtime is simply not an option.”

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been selected by the International Committee on Technical Interchange for Space Mission Operations and Ground Data Systems, also known as the SpaceOps Organization, to host the international SpaceOps Conference in 2010 in Huntsville.

The international forum in 2010 will discuss state-of-the-art space operations principles, methods and tools, and will enable managerial and technical interchange on all aspects of space mission operations, including such areas as robotics, human, Earth orbiting and deep space operations.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems will lead an industry team in pursuit of a contract to support NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center with the design, development and production of Instrument Unit Avionics (IUA) on the new Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle. With the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2010, the Ares I is the next generation of space transportation as NASA continues to lead mankind in space exploration and scientific discovery.

The exclusive team, lead by BAE Systems as prime contractor, includes United Space Alliance, General Dynamics, Harris Corporation, Goodrich Corporation, Wyle Laboratories, Arcata Associates. Inc., Barrios Technology and AURA Instrumentation. The BAE Systems team has long-standing relationships with NASA and significant experience supporting the U.S. space program. Additional small businesses will be added to BAE Systems’ IUA team over the next few weeks.

Raytheon Company (NYSE:
RTN) has been awarded a $10.1 million U.S. Army contract option to provide
16 Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment (RAID) Tower Systems with Base Defense
Operation Centers to help protect U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan
and Iraq.
"The equipment Raytheon is providing to support U.S. military
operations is helping to save the lives of our warfighters," said Pete
Franklin, vice president, National & Theater Security Programs for Raytheon
Integrated Defense Systems. "The joint Raytheon and U.S. government team
takes great pride in rapidly delivering this critical capability to our
soldiers."

Avocent Corporation, announced customer partnership with Gas Station TV providing programming through video monitors and speakers integrated into gas station pumps at leading gas retailers. Avocent’s wireless HD distribution technology delivers news and advertising content to each gas pump display while GSTV supplies rich media content geared towards motorists.

“Consumers spend, on average, four and a half minutes at the gas pump with nothing to do. Using Avocent’s wireless HD technology for enhanced video and audio at the gas pump allows GSTV to offer superior digital signage to consumers when refueling,” said David Leider, CEO of GSTV.

Avocent’s Emerge MPX1000 media distribution system delivers a synchronized stream of high-definition computer graphics or video and associated audio from one source to as many as eight display devices. Manageability is provided through an onboard web interface and device control is accommodated through extension of serial, IR and HDMI control data. The Emerge MPX1000 extender solution supports VGA and HDMI/DVI digital video and audio signals.

The Emerge MPX1000 extender solution provides connectivity for professional audio and video applications that require moving high-definition quality content from one source to multiple destinations. High resolution VGA or HDMI/DVI computer graphics up to 1280 x 768 resolution, and HD video including 720p are supported. Demonstrations of the Avocent wireless VGA and HDMI/DVI distribution system will take place at the Digital Signage Expo booth (#815) in Chicago, IL, May 16 - 17.

Federal regulators gave final approval Tuesday for the Tennessee Valley Authority to restart its oldest nuclear reactor after a 22-year shutdown that was prompted by safety concerns.

The green light came after Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors determined that the unit met standards to go online again.

"TVA has completed an extensive refurbishment of Unit (nyse: UNT - news - people ) I and the NRC staff has closely monitored their progress throughout the project," said Victor McCree, a deputy regional administrator for the commission.

TVA, the nation's largest public utility, said it spent $1.8 billion over five years overhauling Unit 1 at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, located in rolling cotton fields about 95 miles north of Birmingham.

The AEgis Technologies Group, Inc., a leading supplier of simulation software, training, and engineering services to the international modeling and simulation community, announces the release of the Microsoft Excel Add-in for acslXtreme. The acslXtreme Excel Simulation Interface is an add-in utility for Microsoft Excel which allows models created in acslXtreme to be controlled and analyzed using Microsoft Excel.

This utility works by associating cells in an Excel workbook with specific model variables. In particular, cells associated with model constants can be used to specify the values of those constants prior to a simulation run; model outputs of interest may similarly be collected and inserted into specific cells at the conclusion of the run. Since the model inputs and outputs are simple Excel cells, the complete mathematical, plotting and data import/export facilities provided by Excel may be used in the analysis of acslXtreme simulation data.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 8 - Dynetics and Aerospace Integration Corporation (AIC) announced today that the companies have entered into an exclusive teaming agreement to pursue the upcoming Army Aircraft and Airframe Structural Components contract for the operation of PEO Aviation's Logistics Support Facility Management Activity (LSFMA) in Huntsville, Alabama.

As the contracting agency for the LSFMA effort, the Army Sustainment Command, based in Rock Island, Illinois, plans to award a single Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract later this year. The IDIQ vehicle will be used to provide various engineering, production, modification and hangar facility support to the LSFMA customer. The potential value of the contract is $350 million over 5 years.

Tom Baumbach, President of Dynetics said, "This team will bring unmatched facilities, the very best engineering, integration, and maintenance personnel and processes to the revamping of the Army's helicopter fleet. Together, Dynetics and AIC will bring resources which are not available elsewhere to Army program managers."