Redstone Arsenal News

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Dr. Steven Messervy takes a long green tube with a pistol grip and rudimentary sights down from a wooden display plaque on the wall of his office on Redstone Arsenal .

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Maj. Gen. Lynn A. Collyar , a Huntsville native, will become the next commander of the Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal , according to a statement today from the Department of Defense.

The crowded field contending for the Republican nomination in the Madison County Commission District 3 race is long on ideas and short on experience.

The Alabama Department of Industrial Relations projects that nearly 25,000 jobs - a mix of new jobs and openings due to attrition - will be available in Madison County between now and 2014, said Lucia Cape, vice president/work force with the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce.

It isn't often that the Mayor gets billed as the warm up act, but Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle played the part well as he took a few minutes to remark about Huntsville's growth prospects at Thursday's meeting of the Huntsville Association of Small Businesses in Advanced Technology.

Many of you have asked if Redstone Arsenal is conducting tests today. You've heard booms and explosions in south Huntsville.

The Army Materiel Command's new headquarters on Redstone Arsenal opened in June of 2011.

Drivers who regularly use Redstone Arsenal's Goss Road and the Gate 9/Rideout Road entrances and exits should be aware of construction and lane changes that begin Thursday.

The barber pole still twirls out front. The cash register, believed to be a shop original, is still here, along with many of the old barber chairs.

Mountain Gap Middle School's Band students have a secret weapon heading into their next competition.

Colbert, AL ; Cullman, AL ; De Kalb, AL ; Franklin, AL ; Jackson, AL ; Lauderdale, AL ; Lawrence, AL ; Limestone, AL ; Madison, AL ; Marshall, AL ; Morgan, AL The current intersection at Goss Rd.

The permanent closing of Goss Road at Rideout Road Thursday may require some people to travel a new route to and from two popular destinations on Redstone Arsenal .

If you have an emergency while on Redstone Arsenal Army base in Huntsville, Alabama, dialing 911 will connect you to NASA.

An Army official said Friday that one and possibly two rounds of military base closures could come in response to announced defense budget cuts.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- A joint 911 call center officially opened on Redstone Arsenal Thursday combines Army and NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center operations for better communication and quicker response times, according to Col.

Joseph Butler and Dr. Edward Wilkenson, both former employees, chat during the Air, Space and Missile Defense Association membership and awards luncheon on Thursday, Jan.

Maj. Gen. Frank 'Del' Turner, right, talks with NAITA President Gerald Kolasch, left, and NAITA Executive Director Anne Burkett, center, at a reception before the program begins.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command is launching a new way of contracting for its technology research and development programs that is aimed at getting the best new tools more quickly into the hands of troops for the best possible cost.

The Army announced today that Brig. Gen. Camille M. Nichols, who has been selected for promotion to major general, will assume command of the ACC, headquartered on Redstone Arsenal.

Last week, the Huntsville City Council agreed to pay Reed Contracting Services $1,088,344 to add a third lane for outbound arsenal traffic.