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Emerson to Invest $100 Million
to Expand Manufacturing Opera-
tions in Colorado
Emerson recently announced it will invest more than $100 million in Boulder, Colorado to significantly expand its manufacturing space and launch a new innovation center focused on research, new product development and indus- try training for its advanced flow measurement products.
Emerson is recognized globally for its ad- vanced flow measurement technologies and di- agnostics.
The nearly 180,000-square-foot expansion includes a new, 85,000-square-foot labora- tory and manufacturing facility to design and develop products, technologies and software that measure and control the flow of material in a manufacturing process.
The expanded Boulder facility will offer a hands-on Interactive Plant Environment that simulates real-world industrial manufacturing conditions for worker training and upskill- ing to help reshape the future workforce. The experiential training facility will provide Emerson customers with hands-on access to the most advanced products and technologies, in- cluding flow, temperature, level, pressure and wireless instrumentation, valves and regula- tors, as well as Emerson’s leading control systems and PlantwebTM digital ecosystem.
Emerson currently has 630 employees in Boulder, home of its measurement solutions business.
Boeing To Sell More Southern
California Land
Boeing has listed more industrial real es- tate for sale, continuing its plans to divest more property it acquired in its $13 billion takeover of rival McDonnell Douglas back in 1996. Boeing has listed eight parcels totaling 78 acres just north of the Long Beach Airport in Southern California, according to city of Long Beach deputy economic development direc- tor Sergio Ramirez. “We said to them, ‘We’re in the middle of Covid. Are you sure this is a good time?’” Ramirez said.
Anduril Opens Engineering Posts in Seattle Office
Defense technology company Anduril Indus- tries is hiring engineers for its new site in Seattle.
The new hires will perform work remotely un- til all restrictions in line with the COVID-19 pandemic are lifted, the company said in May.
Anduril aims to augment the U.S. and its allies’ defensive capacities through the new facility.
“We are building bigger and better systems for our military as quickly as we can,” said Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril.
VOX Space AND Virgin Orbit
Qualify AS Competitors for The
Darpa Launch Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), announced that California companies VOX Space and its partner, Vir- gin Orbit, are among three teams that have qualified to compete in the DARPA Launch Challenge. DARPA announced that an initial field of more than 50 contenders had been cut down to only three, selected on the basis of their technical and regulatory progress towards delivering a highly flexible launch service applicable to a variety of US gov- ernment needs.
The DARPA competition will award multiple prizes of up to $12 million each to qualified teams who complete multiple launches to Low Earth Orbit on very short notice. Further de- tails and requirements are still being final- ized by DARPA.
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