Missouri Prairie Foundation plant sale
The Examiner
The Missouri Prairie Foundation walk-through plant sale is from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center, 4750 Troost Ave. in Kansas City.
Items for sale include native trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses and seeds from nine venders located in the lower Midwest, including Gaylena’s Garden, Ozark Soul Native Plants, Missouri Wildflower Nursery, Allendan Seed Company, Colonial Gardens, Prairie Hill Farm, City Roots, Green Thumb Gardens and Forrest Keeling Nursery.
Venders will all accept cash; some may accept checks or credit cards. Shoppers can order plants in advance directly from most of the venders online.
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As the world takes in US President Joe Biden’s latest executive order (EO) on domestic sourcing of currently imported critical components, primarily computer chips and medicines, to help the US become less dependent on foreign supplies, Spend Matters turns it eye to the general thoughts of the procurement sector.
The executive order (a means of issuing federal directives by the president of the United States that manages operations of the federal government) is intended to help protect the US economy from the supply shortages experienced during the pandemic that forced car manufacturers to cease production owing to lack of semiconductors, left healthcare workers without crucial PPE and spread concern over the availability of critical drug ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry. A hundred-day review of critical supply chains will now begin.
The Examiner
The Missouri Department of Conservation is offering both virtual and in-person events and classes this month. Programs are free. Advance registration is required and can be done at mdc.mo.gov/events. If you have trouble registering or have other questions, call the host conservation center. Programs will be virtual or in-person, most held at Burr Oak Woods Conservation Nature Center, 1401 N.W. Park Road, Blue Springs, 816-228-3766, or Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center, 4750 Troost Ave., Kansas City, 816-759-7300.
March 11
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Discovery Nature, Teen Trek & Tech-Spring Cleaning and Babies Singing: 6 to 7 p.m. at Burr Oak Woods. For ages 13 to 18. Registration is required by March 10. Learn about the do’s and don’ts when you encounter these neighborhood critters.
Grollo Aerospace looks to finalise development of Evader aerial target system
24 February 2021
by Robin Hughes
Australia’s Grollo Aerospace is set to finalise development in the next 24 months of what it describes as the world’s first low-cost, re-useable, supersonic air-launched target missile for naval and ground-based air-defence training applications.
Designated ‘Evader’, the developmental aerial target system is designed to replicate the flight profile and manoeuvring characteristics of a range of hostile missile and aircraft systems in fully representative end-to-end engagements that cannot be matched or reproduced in a simulation environment.
A company internal research and development (IRAD)-funded initiative that began in 2010, the Evader project was awarded a Defence Innovation Hub grant of AUD1.75 million (USD1.38 million) to progress the concept. An initiative of the Australian Department of Defence, the Defence Innovation Hub (the Hub) invests in innovative