Consolidation of Aerospace Forces Creating Huge Economic Development Clusters

There is a growing sense of excitement in the aerospace industry as more commercial aerospace companies are stepping up efforts to build a business that will establish a permanent base on the Moon and, perhaps as soon as five years from now, add services for the average person to go…

Business Services and Strategic Planning

Business services today usually means a service that is related to or dependent on information technology for everything from customer interaction to internal financial management.

Trends include moving all IT services to the cloud, eliminating the in-house services and finally allowing different computers and platforms to be able to…

Development in Transition

The rise of robots in manufacturing and digital services in almost every aspect of business continues to be a focus of workforce development, now creating a subtle change from a fear of robots taking jobs to an understanding that robots may actually increase opportunities for the workforce.

A Brookings Institution…

U. S. Seaports Continue Steady Upgrades

U.S. seaports continue to evolve and expand, as bigger ships come through the newly expanded Panama Canal, making the east coast a bigger player in both shipping and intermodal connections, and encouraging both the development of new ports and the retooling of older ports.

At the same time, shipping…

Rail Development Continuing To Be Key To Logistics Infrastructure

One of the nation’s largest railroads, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), is composed of a 32,500 route-mile network over 28 states that is the result of more than 390 railroad lines that were merged or acquired during the railroad’s 160-year history. It shipped 10.3…