HUNTSVILLE, AL—Northrop Grumman Corp. has renovated and opened an assembly facility here to support the U.S. Air Force’s Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program.
PALMDALE, CA—NASA has released a time-lapse video showing the progress Lockheed Martin (LM) has made in building NASA's X-59 QueSST test aircraft at LM's Skunk Works factory here.
ZURICH—Researchers from the Complex Materials Group at ETH Zurich university have developed a lightweight composite material that changes color as soon as it is deformed. The result of this color change, in effect, is the material inspects itself.
FLORHAM PARK, NJ—Emerson is donating regulators to students in the Texas Rocket Engineering Laboratory at The University of Texas for use in its Halycon bipropellant liquid propulsion rocket, hoping to set a new height record.
PARIS—Nine French software companies focused on Industry 4.0 have joined together to create The Industrial Alliance Consortium, designed to help manufacturers efficiently digitalize their factories and build the Industry of the Future.
CARLSBAD, CA—Machine Builder and integrator MiQ Partners is expanding its production space here by 17,000 square feet to meet the increasing automation needs of west coast manufacturers in many industries.
PONTARDAWE, Wales—The global materials engineering group Wall Colmonoy has completed a major upgrade to its casting foundry here to improve efficiency and reduce its environmental footprint.
SPRINGFIELD, MA—Weapons maker Smith & Wesson announced last week that it will relocate its headquarters to Tennessee in 2023, citing the increasingly hostile political climate here.
CAMBRIDGE, MA—Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed the RoboGrammar system, which automatically generates an optimal structure and controller for an arthropod-inspired robot to traverse a given terrain.