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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. New Mexico’s Job Training Incentive Program Board allocated funding to eight businesses to support a total of 87 jobs in December.
The following companies received funding, according to the New Mexico Economic Development Department:
Beck & Bulow Buffalo, which received $41,000 to support six trainees in Santa Fe.
Boeing Co., which received $1.113 million to support 34 trainees in Albuquerque.
Indica Labs, which received $63,431 to support two trainees and five interns in Albuquerque.
KiloNewton, which received $95,666 to support four trainees and an intern in Albuquerque.
National Water Services, which received $35,640 to support four trainees in Santa Fe.
Systems Integration, which received $11,700 to support a single Albuquerque trainee.
LANL Community Conversation Highlights COVID, Economy
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The focus was primarily on the economy at Tuesday’s Los Alamos National Laboratory Community Conversation via Zoom. Laboratory Director Thom Mason opened with an update on the Lab’s response to COVID-19.
“We had to be very adaptable in our response to COVID-19,” Mason said. “The Lab is considered an essential service. Seventy percent of our staff is working remotely.”
Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes
The Lab is testing personnel working onsite and other employees with concerns they might be infected, Mason said. Although the Lab is on the same trajectory as the surrounding area, in which cases increased over the past month, Mason said that recently, the Lab has seen “a tapering of growth.”
New Mexico to spend $225 million
Commercial spaceflight set to begin in 2010
Virgin Galactic to fly 50,000 peassengers in 10 years
SANTE FE, NM, Dec. 14, 2005 (New Mexico Economic Development Department PR) Governor Bill Richardson and Sir Richard Branson, Chairman of the Virgin Companies, today announced that Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial space tourism business, will locate its world headquarters and Mission Control in New Mexico. The agreement between the State of New Mexico and Virgin Galactic calls for New Mexico to build a $225 million spaceport in the southern part of the state, on 27- square miles of state land.
“This is a historic day for our great state, and particularly Southern New Mexico,” said Governor Bill Richardson. “With Virgin at the controls, enthusiasts from around the world will fly to space, routinely and safely, just a few years from now. And they will be flying from the world’s first purpose-built spaceport here in New Mexico.
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Biosciences Company NTx Led By Former LANL Scientist Alex Koglin Set To Launch Major Expansion In New Mexico - 9:33 am
NTx Co-founder/President Alex Koglin went to work at LANL in 2009 as the J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellow specializing in antibacterial drug resistance as part of the biosecurity and defense program. Courtesy/NTx State Economic Development Department News:
STEM employer will add 116 jobs with LEDA assistance
RIO RANCHO – A home-grown biosciences company that can make New Mexico a leader in the development and manufacturing of life-saving medicines will receive state economic assistance as it expands into a new research and production center, Economic Development Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced today.