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Santarelli, Bautista review first year of engineering program

Posted July 19, 2012 by by Rebecca Amber

"The local industry ... here desires to have [an engineering] program here ... we have what we call a home-grown initiative," said Santarelli.

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Edwards Civ-Mil selects 2013 projects; honors contributors

Posted May 1, 2013 by Raphael Jaffe

The April Edwards Civilian-Military support Group directors meeting discussed the 2013 project for the base, and verified the annual barbecue date. They also heard reports on the AV Board of Trade Washington, D.C., tour and the California Space Week celebration in Sacramento. Several projects for the base were discussed. Rehabilitation of the name plaques at…

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California BRAC bases now part of recycling revolution

Posted May 29, 2012 by by Susan Wolbarst

J.D. Wang, the CEO of a tire recycling company, believes people can recycle anything if they put their minds to it. So it seems fitting that his company is expanding into a recycled building -- once the commissary at the former Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, Calif.

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Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale employees donate $60,000 to the USO

Posted September 25, 2012 by

Northrop Grumman photograph Northrop Grumman employees convert the Palmdale site’s manufacturing high bay into an assembly area for USO care packages. Employee-led fundraising activities over a span of just three months at Northrop’s Palmdale, Calif., site have netted more than $60,000 for men and women in the U.S. armed services. The site’s annual commitment to…

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College students study Earth from NASA’s P-3B flying lab

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Thirty-two undergraduate and graduate students are participating in a NASA Airborne Science Program field experience at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., this week designed to...

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Boeing rejects SPEEA offer, makes ‘final’offer

Posted January 18, 2013 by Stuart Ibberson

The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, IFPTE Local 2001 is currently in contract talks with Boeing. Talks that will affect union members in Palmdale, Calif., and at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., as well as workers in Washington State. Jan. 16, the union proposed incorporating areas of agreement from ongoing negotiations into existing…

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AVC approves Veterans Resource Center

Posted March 30, 2012 by by Rebecca Amber

March 12, the Antelope Valley College Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a Veteran’s Resource Center on the Lancaster, Calif., campus. The center, which will be started with $5,500 provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, will service the estimated 500 student veterans attending the…

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California Science Center announces details for Mission 26: The Big Endeavour

Posted August 10, 2012 by

Aug. 8, Los Angeles – Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Inglewood Mayor James Butts and California Science Center President Jeffrey Rudolph announced details of Mission 26: The Big Endeavour, Endeavour’s journey from Kennedy Space Center to its new home at the Science Center. Endeavour, which will be transported on top of NASA’s Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft,…

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AV Board of Trade heads to Washington, D.C.

Posted May 1, 2013 by Vicki Medina

The AV Board of Trade recently made its annual legislative trip to our nation’s capitol, the 57th annual trip to be exact, since their first visit as the AV Progress Association. As always, appointments are made around topics included in the white papers that are compiled throughout the year.  Committee chairs in transportation, environment, healthcare…

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Northrop Grumman awards $10,000 engineering scholarships to two Los Angeles-area high school students

Posted June 5, 2012 by

Northrop Grumman has announced the winners of its fifth annual Engineering Scholars program for graduating high school seniors in the greater Woodland Hills community planning...

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