by MBJ Staff Published: January 10,2012
Tags: aerospace, aviation, defense, employment, expansion, jobs, manufacturing, military, research and development, space, technology, workers
HANCOCK COUNTY — Rolls-Royce North America is adding a second jet engine test stand at the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center, according to a release from the governor’s office. The project represents a company investment of at least $50 million and will create 35 new jobs.
Currently, Rolls-Royce employs 45 workers at its existing test [...] [...]
OXFORD — ChromaDex Corporation, an Irvine, Calif.-based natural products company that provides proprietary, science-based solutions and ingredients to the dietary supplement, food and beverage, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries, has completed enrollment in the first human clinical study of its proprietary pTeroPure.
The purpose of the randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study is to evaluate whether pTeroPure will lower [...] [...]
HATTIESBURG — No other Mississippi university receives more federal funding for chemical research and development or spends more on those initiatives than the University of Southern Mississippi, according to a report published by Chemical & Engineering News.
The study included data provided by the National Science Foundation, comparing figures between 1999 and 2009. The latest figures [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Jackson County will apply for $20 million in funds to help Huntington Ingalls build a land-based test facility in Pascagoula.
The Mississippi Press reports the Board of Supervisors agreed to apply for the money on behalf of Ingalls Shipbuilding.
Officials say the money would come from Hurricane Katrina-related supplemental community development block grant funds handled [...] [...]
TUPELO — Circadence, a Boulder, Col.-based provider of WAN and network optimization solutions for commercial and government customers, has issued its 21st United States patent, which focuses on network optimization to further enhance UDP streaming.
This latest patent is a product of Circadence’s development team at its Advanced Research and Development Facility in Tupelo.
The technology provides [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 30,2011
Tags: business incubator, colleges, defense, education, Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, higher education, manufacturing, military, research and development, startup companies, universities
HATTIESBURG — RSDecon recently hosted an open house of its patented Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion (RSDL) that is produced at the University of Southern Mississippi’s materials science laboratory and business incubator, The Accelerator.
RSDecon is a subsidiary of Bracco Diagnostics’ Healthcare Protective Products Division (HPPD).
“I can tell you that one of the major selling points to [...] [...]
STARKVILLE — Camgian Microsystems Corporation has successfully completed the development and initial testing of its next-generation Quantus satellite router technology within the oil and gas industry.
The smaller, more compact router device supports the integration of advanced sensor technologies with ORBCOMM’s low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite data communications network. Combined with Camgian’s cloud-based operations intelligence software, the [...] [...]
JACKSON — Gov. Haley Barbour has unveiled MissiON, the Mississippi research network, an expanded broadband technology system to serve the state’s research universities and facilities.
The project was created in collaboration with AT&T.
The network will serve the Mississippi Research Consortium, which is comprised of the University of Mississippi, Mississippi State University, University of Southern Mississippi and [...] [...]
STARKVILLE — A technology developed at Mississippi State University will be in action on the University Drive bridge tomorrow as engineers from Techvation Inc. use the device to analyze the condition of the concrete structure, which is located just west of the Hunter Henry Center.
Known as the automatic chain drag system, the portable, three-wheeled, walk-behind [...] [...]
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University is among the nation’s leading major research universities, according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
In the foundation’s latest analysis of American higher education, the state’s largest public institution of higher learning is designated as “a very high research activity university,” which represents the highest level of research [...] [...]
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