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3,245 articlesThree Flights in 15 Months. Hiring for 12 a Year. Zero Reused Engines.
Blue Origin is hiring aggressively at two sites: Merritt Island for New Glenn avionics production and Kent for BE-4/BE-7 propulsion supporting both New Glenn and the Blue Moon lunar lander. The split reveals a dual-vehicle workforce strategy with distinct clocks — commercial launch cadence vs. NASA
Vulcan Boosters Tuesday, Sentinel Stages Thursday — Same Crew, Same Line
Northrop Grumman's Sentinel ICBM program restructuring and Congressional funding lock in multi-year demand. The company is investing over $1 billion to expand solid rocket motor capacity across four sites, targeting 25,000+ annual motor deliveries by 2029 for Sentinel, NGI, and GMD programs.
PE Owns 574 Autism Centers. Alpaca Launches 47 BCBA Owner Practices.
Alpaca Health is hiring 47 BCBAs to launch clinician-owned autism therapy practices via its 'Practice-In-A-Box' model, providing back-office support and guaranteed payouts while countering private equity consolidation that has acquired 574 centers since 2015.
Blue Origin Builds $600M Factory to Turn 3 Flights Into 60 a Year
Blue Origin announces a $600 million upper-stage factory (Project Horizon) at Cape Canaveral to produce 60 New Glenn upper stages annually by 2028, addressing a critical production bottleneck to meet Kuiper and NSSL launch contracts.
New Glenn Blast Grounds Orbital Reef's Only Launch Path
Sierra Space and NASA restructured their CRS-2 contract, reducing Dream Chaser ISS cargo flights to a single 2026 demo. The company appointed a new CFO and government relations chief, signaling a strategic pivot from spaceplane development to Orbital Reef commercial station operations and defense wo
Palantir Jumps 9% as Karp Labels Outsourced AI 'Effing Insane
Palantir CEO Alex Karp warns that frontier AI labs are overselling models while extracting enterprises' proprietary data. Palantir's Ontology platform and NVIDIA partnership offer a sovereign AI architecture that keeps data and model weights on-premise, driving 85% revenue growth and major defense c
1990s Hulls, 2030s AI Jamming: The Horizon Frigate Paradox
Thales and Elettronica formed the SIGEN consortium to modernize electronic warfare suites on four Horizon-class frigates, requiring a shared cross-border workforce and a shift to software-defined radio architecture.
89 Days to EU AI Act Enforcement — Mistral Hires First Regulatory-Grade Safety Deputy
Mistral AI is hiring a Deputy Director of Safety to build compliance infrastructure for the EU AI Act's phased deadlines (2025–2027), covering GPAI documentation, high-risk system conformity, systemic-risk duties, and physical security under NIS2 and ISO standards.
SpaceX Staffs First Mass-Production Rocket Factory: 288 Roles in Bastrop, Texas
SpaceX is aggressively hiring at Starbase and Bastrop to build Starship's first mass-production workforce, adding construction, test, supply chain, and automation roles across Texas facilities.
Paris ML Talent Builds Voice AI for Roofers Who Can't Answer.
Bravi, a Y Combinator Fall 2025 startup building voice-AI agents for home-services SMBs, is hiring a Founding Engineer in Paris. The article examines why Paris attracts voice-AI talent, details Bravi's tech stack for handling calls on job sites, and highlights a growing YC batch trend toward vertica
Pittsburgh Writes the Code. Arizona Contract Drivers Run 400-Mile Shifts in 140-Degree Heat to Prove It.
Latitude AI is hiring contract test operators at Ford's Arizona Proving Grounds in Wittmann to validate Level 3 autonomous driving at scale. The desert facility provides extreme heat and high-mileage testing needed for L3 certification, using a scalable contract workforce for cost-effective validati
Thales to Hire 3,300 in France, Merging Space and Electronic Warfare Workforces
Thales plans to hire 3,300 people in France in 2026, part of a global 9,000+ target, focusing on space manufacturing (Cannes) and electronic warfare/navigation (Sophia-Antipolis) under France's sovereign industrial strategy driven by military programming law and EU defence funds.
Only the Second Part 450 Licensee Is Staffing a Production Line Before First Orbit
Inversion Space's Arc reusable reentry capsule aims to return cargo from orbit within an hour. The company is validating thermal protection with NASA, hiring for rate production targeting a 2026 orbital demo, while the Pentagon's Golden Dome program drives a defense talent surge that overlaps with c
Starlink Built a 700,000-Square-Foot Factory in Rural Texas to Serve 2.8 Billion Users Globally
Starlink's profitability drives global hiring surge for satellite production, ground infrastructure, and operations roles. New positions in Bastrop and Redmond support Direct-to-cell technology expansion.
Anduril's $194K Middle East Hire: Defense AI's First Global Deployment Role
Anduril Industries is hiring an International Deployment Lead in the Middle East, expanding its autonomous systems through a UAE-EDGE joint venture. The Omen production moves to the UAE, supporting regional AI defense market growth.
Starlink Hits 10 Million Users as SpaceX Adds 90 Gateway Jobs
SpaceX's Starlink is expanding its ground infrastructure sourcing team in Redmond and scaling up operations in Bastrop to support rapid subscriber growth and global gateway deployment.
Robots Manage Starshield, Yet 91 Human Jobs Appear
SpaceX wins a $2.29B Space Force contract to develop Starshield, a satellite communications backbone using AI and autonomous operations for secure military data relay.
Europe's Quantum Satellite Needs 226 Workers. China's Already Has Micius in Orbit.
ESA's SAGA mission will deploy Europe's first satellite-based quantum encryption system, using quantum key distribution to provide theoretically unbreakable secure communications for governments and protect against future quantum computer threats.
Ford Hires 550 Ex-Argo Engineers to Build L3 Autonomy Team
Ford's Latitude AI hires 550 former Argo AI employees to develop L3 autonomy for consumer vehicles, focusing on phased ADAS delivery by 2027.
Four Giants Chase the Same 1,375 Cleared Engineers — Lockheed Just Bought the Whole Pond
Lockheed Martin is the frontrunner to acquire Ultra Maritime for $3.5 billion, adding 1,375 cleared engineers specializing in sonar arrays, torpedo guidance, and USV autonomy across U.S., UK, and Australian navies. The deal faces UK National Security and Investment Act and CFIUS reviews.
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