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Our Hub tenants continue to wow us with their achievements!

GDX Development (Gates Defense Systems) won recently won the U.S. Army's xTechSpecial Forces competition. Details.

Virtru facilitated the establishment of a new NATO data encryption standard. Details.

Saildrone collected insightful data from Hurricane Debby. Details (including video).


Lonestar Lunar partnered with Valkyrie on artificial intelligence headed to the moon. Details.

article originated in the September 2024 newsletter

photo credits: GDX, S. Vaughn, Saildrone, Lonestar Lunar

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