PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland, June 2 -- The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command issued the following news release: * * * Fleet Readiness Center Southwest Reduces Osprey Maintenance Cycle Time by 24% * Fleet Readiness Center Southwest's (FRCSW) mission is to maintain the operational readiness of advanced aircraft like the CMV-22 Osprey. The command provides crucial support to the men and women of the Navy and Marine Corps allowing them to deliver the lethality necessary to defeat any foe. Recently, th more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, June 3 -- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources issued the following news on June 2, 2025: * * * Maryland Department of Natural Resources Offers Outdoor Recreation Equity Grants Grants are used to help organizations that run programs to introduce beginners and increase access to outdoor activities such as camping, fishing, hiking, and mountain biking In 2024, the community group Defensores de la Cuenca used tents and gear purchased with a Maryland Outdoor Equity G more PR

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, June 3 -- The Maryland Department of Commerce issued the following news release on June 2, 2025: * * * Maryland to Launch New Application Round for Cannabis Business Assistance Fund BALTIMORE, MD (June 2, 2025) -- Governor Wes Moore today announced that a new round of funding will soon be available through the Maryland Department of Commerce's Cannabis Business Assistance Fund. This is the fourth financing round for the program, which helps increase small business and ent more PR

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- NASA issued the following news: * * * NASA Tests New Ways to Stick the Landing in Challenging Terrain By Loura Hall Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, particularly for future crewed missions. To support this, NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is pursuing a regular cadence of flight testing on a va more PR

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- NASA issued the following commentary on June 2, 2025: * * * NASA's IMAP Spacecraft Readied for Launch Preparations Technicians removed NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft from its shipping container on Thursday, May 29, after transferring it from the airlock into the high bay at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IMAP spacecraft arrived at the facility on May 10, coming by truck  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- NASA issued the following news: NASA's MAVEN Makes First Observation of Atmospheric Sputtering at Mars After a decade of searching, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution) mission has, for the first time, reported a direct observation of an elusive atmospheric escape process called sputtering that could help answer longstanding questions about the history of water loss on Mars. By Willow Reed, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado more PR

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- NASA issued the following news on June 2, 2025: * * * Apocalypse When? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Galactic Collision As far back as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy -- then thought to be only a nebula -- was headed our way. A century later, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were able to measure the sideways motion of Andromeda and found it was so negligible that an eventual head-on collision with the Milky Way seemed almost certa more PR

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, June 3 B(TNSbrep) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service issued the following news: * * * NESDIS Joint Venture Partnerships Study Determines NOAA Weather Monitoring and Modeling Could Improve with Digital Twin Technology NOAA's Satellite and Information Services (NESDIS) Joint Venture Partnerships (JVP) published a concept study, authored by Orion Space Solutions (Orion) under a JVP Broad more PR

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- A coalition of small business groups has pressed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to abandon its proposed 2026 industrial stormwater permit, arguing it imposes heavy costs without clear environmental benefits. The Small Business Low Risk Coalition submitted comments asserting the proposal lacks evidence and burdens thousands of small firms. The coalition argues the permit, published on December 13, 2024, fails to justify its costly monitoring requirements, particul more ST

COLUMBIA, Maryland, June 3 -- TEDCO, the Maryland Technology Development Corp., issued the following news release on June 2, 2025: * * * TEDCO Announces the Release of the Training Materials Development & Delivery Request for Proposals New RFP requests submissions by June 16, 2025 * TEDCO, Maryland's economic engine for technology companies, announced the publication of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the enhancement of the Business Resource Information, Development, and Guidance Ecosyste more PR

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following news release: * * * USDA Trade Mission to Expand Agricultural Exports in Peru WASHINGTON, June 2, 2025 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture will lead a high-impact trade mission to Lima, Peru from June 9 -12 aimed at expanding market access and boosting U.S. agricultural exports to address the $3.66 billion trade deficit with Peru. The delegation includes more than 50 agribusinesses,  more PR