Category: Aerospace

MHIRJ to expand its workforce in Arizona

TUCSON, AZ - MHI RJ Aviation Group (MHIRJ) plans to expand its workforce at Tucson International Airport with the addition of 100 jobs this year and more than 250 over three years According to the Arizona Commerce Authority, MHIRJ intends to...

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UTEP Celebrates Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace Center Construction Milestone

EL PASO, TX - The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and Sundt Construction celebrated the construction of the Aerospace and Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMAC) The event marked the placement of the last beam in the US$80 million building's...

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NMSU researcher receives NASA grant

NEW MEXICO - New Mexico State University (NMSU) postdoctoral researcher Debanjan Sengupta received a three-year, US$750,000 grant from NASA's Emerging Worlds program, which aims to understand the formation and early evolution of the Solar...

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GA-ASI completes first full-scale fatigue test of MQ-9B

SAN DIEGO - San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems successfully completed the first full-scale fatigue test of an MQ-9B drone The test, which is equivalent to 40,000 flight hours, is an important milestone in the process of certifying...

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Ascent and IAI join forces to establish new aircraft conversion hangar in Arizona

ARIZONA - Marana Aerospace Solutions (Ascent Aviation Services) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have signed a long-term agreement to establish a conversion site and perform passenger-to-freighter conversion of Boeing 777-300ER...

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Mexico’s Aerospace Nearshoring Summit 2023 arrives in Chihuahua

Chihuahua, Chihuahua - The city of Chihuahua will host an unprecedented event, Mexico's Aerospace Nearshoring Summit 2023, which will bring together the most important experts in the aerospace industry This event will include the participation...

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NMSU Atmospheres Node awarded for work on data collection and reporting

NEW MEXICO - NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) Atmospheres Node, located in the Department of Astronomy at New Mexico State University (NMSU), received the 2022 Silver Group Achievement Award That Node has a distributed archive containing all...

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El Paso Airport to install solar panels

EL PASO, TX - The City of El Paso Airport was selected to receive a US$3 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the installation of solar panels, in addition to US$360,000 in support to develop an Airport Sustainability...

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Regal Rexnord to invest US$13.5 million in Chihuahua

PARIS - The governor of Chihuahua, María Eugenia Campos, announced an investment of US$135 million by the US company Regal Rexford With this investment, the transnational company foresees the creation of 240 new jobs, with operations in a...

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El Paso implements new remote identification system to detect unauthorized drones

EL PASO, TX - The city of El Paso became the first city in the United States to implement a fully networked Remote ID system to detect drones flying in and out of the 500-mile radius of El Paso International Airport's airspace The El Paso City...

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