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Radian Aerospace comes out of stealth and raises $27.5M for orbital space plane development

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million to grab the grail: In the late 1990s, NASA spent nearly a billion dollars on Lockheed Martin’s X-33 single-stage-to-orbit concept before the project was canceled in 2001. Air Force’s Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in the 1980s — and went on to become a program manager at Boeing, focusing on reusable space systems.

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Top 15 project management certifications

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Behind every successful IT project, you’ll find a highly skilled project manager. From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Certified Project Management (CPM).

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NASA provides funding for way-out space proposals, including a flying boat for Titan

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The grant for the TitanAir flying-boat proposal is the second NIAC award for Quinn Morley, who founded Planet Enterprises back in 2001 when he was in high school. A couple of years ago, Morley and a co-investigator won a Phase 1 grant to look into the development of a low-cost robotic system capable of deep drilling on Mars.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Tableau sales chief Kelly Breslin Wright joins Gong; Slalom expands board; more

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Founded in 2001, Slalom currently has more than 9,500 employees globally. However, the startup, which was developing technologies to help self-driving cars navigate in poor weather conditions, lost momentum last year. Hoge spent 16 years at Microsoft, most recently as group program manager for the Windows 11 user experience.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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It’s important for us as a state agency and as the lead state IT organization to help develop individuals, whether they’re interns or permanent employees, so they can achieve the type of work and employment they want for themselves,” he explains. We’re hoping that the interns will turn into full-time employees,” he says.