NCS News Desk

Welcome home!” That’s the greeting every KPMG employee gets when they arrive at the firm’s new 800,000-square-foot training complex in Orlando, Florida. Inaugurated in January, the so-called KPMG Lakehouse serves as a professional development and innovation hub for the accounting, tax, and advisory firm’s 32,000 US-based employees and partners.

Nestled between springs and cow pastures in the heart of the Florida High Tech Corridor, lies a nationally recognized nonprofit that is changing the way Floridians study and celebrate aerospace and aviation.

Provided by Warrior Maven: This Video of Top Army Research Lab Science and Technology programs was produced by the Army Research Laboratory

Brevard County’s own STARBASE Academy officially opened on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020 at Patrick Space Force Base. Only the second location in Florida, STARBASE is a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Enrichment Academy founded by the Department of Defense (DoD). Students from Brevard Public Schools will be transported to the new facility thanks to a […]

NCS MEMBER ALL POINTS WORKING TO PROVIDE SERVICES THROUGH TITUSVILLE-BASED CENTER FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE

Augmented and virtual reality gives Airmen the opportunity to train in various environments without physical limitations. Team Orlando, a partnership between military services and civilian organizations, is driving the progression of this simulation-based training.

With technology constantly changing, the Air Force is actively seeking innovative methods to train today’s Airmen with tomorrow’s technology.

Today’s systems (satellites, aircraft, surface ships, ground vehicles, and subsurface vehicles) have large numbers of electronic components including microprocessors, microcontrollers, sensors, actuators, and internal (onboard) and external (off-board) communication networks. Hardening and securing these systems is currently performed using checklist approaches like the Risk Management Framework (RMF) that derive from decades of information technology best […]

Patrick Connors oversees eight health care facilities across Central Florida. But instead of treating patients, these facilities treat plastic models of humans.

Florida took the No. 2 spot in a recent report about the best states in the U.S. to launch a startup.

According to new research by global real estate consultant JLL, across Central Florida’s Interstate-4 Corridor, high tech firms’ pursuit of talent has touched off a wave of inbound millennial migration from across the U.S. that shows no signs of slowing soon.

A convoy of 10 electric vehicles carrying a delegation of elected, business and community leaders traveled to Tallahassee for the opening day of the 2020 legislative session to meet and discuss the region’s priorities with key members of the legislature. 

The Orlando Economic Partnership (the Partnership) hosted a delegation of 35 business leaders to proactively advance the Orlando region’s agenda to key members of the legislature in Tallahassee during the opening days of the 2020 legislative session.

Most of the work done by local simulation companies is on behalf of the defense industry. The new budget will allow the defense side of the industry to continue growing, George Cheros, president and CEO of the Orlando-based National Center for Simulation, told Orlando Business Journal. After all, new spending programs and contracts can’t operate without a […]

Orlando-based Dignitas Technologies LLC won a $99 million contract to provide two training systems. All of the work for the contract will take place in Orlando, and it’s expected to be finished by January 2025. 

Mark Tester has been named the new executive director of the Orange County Convention Center, effective Feb. 10.

…if that paratrooper were alive today, it’s safe to say he wouldn’t recognize the landing zone, which now features a CVS, a Publix and a Five Guys burgers.

5. Lockheed lands its first 2019 missile contract on Space Coast, valued at $559M 4. Hellfire, F-35 & laser detection: Lockheed, Northrop score $840.2M in local defense work 3. Lockheed, Northrop snare $1.2B of defense work for F-35s, Hellfire missiles, Advanced Hawkeye 2. Northrop Grumman lands $1.4B defense contract with work in Central Florida 1. […]