Judy McShannon presention for the HTC - 8/18/2010

 Judy McShannon will present for the HTC a report on the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS), the ISPCS Public Forum, and the Student Launch Program. 

·        International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) - held at the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum October 20-21.  The purpose of the symposium is to bring together the community involved in all aspects of personal and commercial spaceflight to help grow the industry.  ISPCS continues to grow because there is a need to bring companies and leaders together to grow this industry. The symposium is the response to this need, focusing on the salient technical, financial, and global topics driving the commercial and personal spaceflight industry. 

·        The ISPCS Public Forum is held at the Pan American Center on October 19.  It is a free forum which will provide an update from mayors, (Florida and local) about the space industry’s effect on their city.

·        Student Launch Program -  this program prepares the technical workforce to work for the space industry.  Students from across the state build experiments and launch to space on a sounding rocket at Spaceport America.  We’ve offered this program for the past two years.  This April we will launch two rockets with student experiments, one with middle school students’ experiments and another with high school, community college, and university students’ experiments.

Bio:  Judy McShannon is the Associate Director for New Mexico Space Grant Consortium.  Space Grant provides scholarships, educational programs, and research opportunities to develop the technical workforce.

The HTC Meeting, featuring Judy McShannon’s Presentation will be 11:30AM, Friday August 20^th 2010 at Sonoma Ranch Golf Club, Las Cruces in the Sunset Grill. For more information contact Richard Majestic, rmajestic@msn.com (575) 521-0018.

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International Management Applications Corporation - 6/24/2010

n  International Management Applications Corporation

IMAC as formed in 1984 to provide “Best Value” Consulting Services and Software Products to Private and Public Enterprises in the Aerospace and Defense, Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Education, Energy, Information Technology and Manufacturing Sectors.

The International Management Applications Corporation is headquartered in Las Cruces and provides Consulting Services for Project Management, Business Development, Business Process Reengineering, Supplier Management, Enterprise Learning and Operational Improvements.

IMAC also advances it’s Software Products: Opportunity Pathfinder – New Business development & management, Supplier Pathfinder – Supplier solicitation, selection and management and Grant Pathfinder – Grant solicitation, selection and management tools.

IMAC Management CEO  & Board Chairman James T. Jack

Mr. Jack has over thirty years of project management and consulting experience in the space, missile, aircraft and electronics segments of the aerospace and defense industries as well as the commercial sectors of information technology and manufacturing.  Areas of expertise include project management, business management (including performance measurement and estimating systems) and implementation of change through Team-based process improvement.  Mr. Jack founded International Management Applications Corporation in 1984.     

The HTC Meeting, featuring James Jack’s Presentation will be 11:30AM, Friday July 16^th 2010 at Sonoma Ranch Golf Club, Las Cruces in the the Sunset Grill. For more information contact Richard Majestic, rmajestic@msn.com (575) 521-0018.

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Mission Data Recording — HTC Meeting June 18th - 6/7/2010

Mission Data Recording — High Tech in Las Cruces NM

f you have been near Holloman AFB in Alamogordo recently and seen the latest fighter in the USAF weapons arsenal, the F/A-22, you will no doubt have been impressed by its elegance and grace (and, perhaps, a little awed by its formidable power as well).  The F/A-22 went through thousands of hours of testing prior to entering service, the majority of that testing carried out at Edwards AFB in Southern California.  Situated in the Mojave desert, Edwards AFB is known for its inhospitable summer climate with temperatures reaching above 120ºF challenging the aircraft and the test and recording equipment aboard.  Aircraft and weapons system testing is complicated and expensive so the recording equipment must be fully operational throughout the mission envelope.

on the aircraft.   MONSSTR was a follow-on to the very successful ARMOR multiplexer product created by CALCULEX in the early nineties which was already flying on the F/A-22.

Martin Small, a Las Cruces native and CALCULEX founder and CEO/CTO will present to the HTC a background and history of the company as well as an introduction to the Range Commanders Council’s IRIG 106 Chapter 10 standard for solid state recording which Mr. Small coauthored.  He will also be open to questions from the audience. 

HTC Meeting and Martin Small Presentation 11:30AM, Friday June 18^th 2010 at Sonoma Ranch Golf Club, Las Cruces in the the Sunset Grill. For more information contact Richard Majestic, rmajestic@msn.com (575) 521-0018.

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HTC Presentation on NM Supercomputing May 21, 2010 - 5/10/2010

HTC Presentation on NM Supercomputing and wire NM

May 21, 2010 at 11:30 AM at the Sunset Grill, Sonoma Ranch Golf Club

Shaun Cooper, Ph.D., Associate VP and CIO, NMSU

A presentation on the state of supercomputing will be presented by Shaun Cooper, CIO at New Mexico State University.  As you may know, the state of New Mexico invested in the fastest publicly available supercomputer in 2006/2007.  The investment brought “Encanto” to Rio Rancho with the capacity of 172 trillion calculations per second.  Along with this major investment, smaller size supercomputers have been placed at the research institutions at NMSU.  This presentation will cover some of the research which has been accomplished since this investment, activities by the New Mexico Computer and Applications Center (NMCAC), and currently financial challenges faced by the center. 

Time permitting, Dr. Cooper will speak about networking activities within New Mexico with special emphasis on the Rio Grande Optical Network and the ARRA funded Eastern Loop.

Shaun Cooper, Ph.D., is currently the Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice President for Information Technology at New Mexico State University.  Dr. Cooper joined NMSU in 1988 as a front line applications programmer and has advancing positions and responsibilities over the past 22 years.  Dr. Cooper participates in advising Computer Science graduate students, teaches Computer Science courses, and as time permits, helps out with parallel code development.  Dr. Cooper is responsible for Information Technology Policy for NMSU as well as the central computing and networking activities for NMSU.  Dr. Cooper is married to Dr. Martha Mitchell, Department Head in Chemical Engineering and they have two young sons.  Dr. Cooper is from Las Cruces and is an LCHS graduate.

for more information call Richard Majestic or email: rmajestic@msn.com

File: SuperComputing 2010 Final.ppt