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Foreign Trade Zones: A Strategic Advantage for Kent Valley Companies Navigating Global Trade Volatility
Sep 16 2025In an era of increasing global trade volatility, businesses must be agile to stay competitive. From supply chain disruptions to unpredictable tariffs, companies are seeking smarter strategies to reduce risk and improve efficiency. With designated Foreign-Trade Zone areas, Kent Valley offers a powerful solution.Located in a prime strategic location within...
Blue Alchemist Hits Major Milestone Toward Permanent and Sustainable Lunar Infrastructure
Sep 10 2025BLUE ORIGIN - Blue Origin announced today that its pioneering in-space resource utilization system, Blue Alchemist, has successfully completed its Critical Design Review (CDR), marking a transformative milestone toward humanity's permanent expansion beyond Earth. The breakthrough technology aims to turn the Moon, and eventually Mars, into self-sustaining worlds where robots...
SEATTLE TIMES - Boeing delivered 57 commercial aircraft in August, its best performance for the month since 2018, in the latest sign of steadying factory operations as the U.S. plane-maker targets faster production rates.The tally, which included 43 of Boeing’s 737 family of jets, is the second-highest of the year...
Kent Valley is a strategic hub in the global aerospace and space supply chain, home to a vibrant cluster of precision manufacturers, suppliers, and innovators. Located in the heart of Washington State—just minutes from Boeing, Blue Origin, and other aerospace leaders—Kent Valley offers unmatched proximity to major OEMs and an...
PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL - Toronto-based branding company The Look Co. on Thursday closed its acquisition of OAI + Rainier, a sign company based in Tukwila and Tampa, Florida.The acquisition includes OAI + Rainier's 137,000-square-foot factory at 18375 Olympic Ave. S. in Tukwila.In addition to signs, OAI + Rainier performs...
PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL - Indigo Real Estate of Renton was ranked the 23rd-best large company in Washington's Best Workplaces 2025.Click here to read the full article.
PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL - Metrix Engineers of Renton was ranked the best small company in Washington's Best Workplaces 2025.Click here to read the full article.
PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL - People Come First Construction Group of Kent was ranked the 19th-best midsize company in Washington's Best Workplaces 2025.Click here to read the full article.
PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL - IT services company Zones LLC has a new chief executive after co-founder and longtime CEO Firoz Lalji stepped down from the role on Monday.The new CEO is Yehia Maaty Omar, a three-year member of Zones' board of directors, the Auburn-based company announced.…Click here to read...
VIA SATELLITE - JetBlue, long seen as one of the main in-flight connectivity (IFC) innovators, is the first major airline to sign up with Amazon’s Project Kuiper for IFC. JetBlue will start to introduce Project Kuiper’s technology on a portion of its fleet in 2027. This planned rollout would mark...
Anderson Multifamily Team Arranges Sale of 108-Unit Swiss Gables Apartments in Kent, Washington
Aug 28 2025KIDDER MATHEWS - Swiss Gables Apartments, a 108-unit property at 4620 S 254th Place in Kent’s Lake Fenwick neighborhood, has sold to a private investor. Dylan Simon, Jerrid Anderson, JD Fuller, and Elijah Piper of the Simon | Anderson Multifamily Team at Kidder Mathews represented the seller, John Stephanus, and...
SEATTLE TIMES - WestJet, Canada’s second-largest airline, will purchase 67 Boeing Co. aircraft with an option for more, placing its biggest-ever order in a push for future growth even as trade tensions with the US persist.The record deal includes 60 737-10 MAX narrowbody aircraft, with options for 25 more of...
Beyond Earth’s Bounds: How Blue Origin is Leveraging the AWS Cloud for AI-Powered Space Exploration
Aug 25 2025AWS PUBLIC SECTOR BLOG - Blue Origin is transforming space exploration with a mission to make space access routine, reliable, and cost-effective. In January 2025, the company achieved a historic milestone with its first orbital spaceflight—the New Glenn 1 (NG-1) rocket launch—powered by AWS GovCoud (US) and generative AI.In this...
ULA Making New Efforts on Vulcan Reusability
Aug 21 2025SPACENEWS - WASHINGTON - United Launch Alliance is leaning more into reusability as it advances work on recovering the engine section of the Vulcan rocket and embarks on another project.Tory Bruno, president and chief executive of ULA, said during an episode of his “The Burn Sequence” podcast published Aug. 19...
Anduril, Blue Origin to Study How to Transport Cargo from Orbit to Earth for the Pentagon
Aug 21 2025TECH CRUNCH - Blue Origin and Anduril have landed new study contracts with the U.S. Air Force to explore how their technology, including rockets, could move military cargo around the world.The contracts under the Air Force’s Rocket Cargo program are relatively small — Blue Origin’s comes in at $1.37 million...
NASA SPACE FLIGHT - Blue Origin has revealed its concept for a Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO), entering a burgeoning field alongside Rocket Lab and Lockheed Martin as companies vie to enhance communications infrastructure for future Mars missions. The announcement highlights a proactive push by private aerospace firms, even as SpaceX...
BUSINESS WIRE - Stoke Space, the company building the world’s first fully and rapidly reusable rockets, today announced that its cloud-based hardware engineering platform, previously known as Fusion, is now Boltline. The rebrand reflects Boltline’s position as the only purpose-built, end-to-end, cloud-based engineering toolset designed to streamline hardware development from...
BlackSky Heralds New Two-Year Early Access Agreement with International Buyer for 35 Centimeter Imagery
Aug 12 2025DEFENSE DAILY - BlackSky Technology [BKSY] has a new "early access" international buyer of the company's Generation-3 35-centimeter imagery, the company said on Tuesday. The company "secured a two-year Gen-3 early access agreement with a new international customer that initiated a Gen-2 On-Demand contract in January," BlackSky said. “The rapid...
SPACENEWS - United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket lifted off Aug. 12 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying the U.S. Space Force’s USSF-106 mission. The launch marked Vulcan’s first flight for the National Security Space Launch program, a milestone that comes after years of...
NASA - To drive the development of key space-based capabilities for the United States, NASA is exploring an opportunity to demonstrate technology to raise a spacecraft’s orbit to a higher altitude. Two American companies – Cambrian Works of Reston, Virginia, and Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona – will develop...
NASASPACEFLIGHT - In a teleconference ahead of the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) first mission for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) with its Vulcan rocket, President and CEO Tory Bruno shared insights on a range of topics, from SpaceX’s Starship operations at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to ULA’s reuse technologies and...
SPACE.COM - United Launch Alliance's (ULA) new Vulcan Centaur rocket will conduct its first-ever national security launch next week, if all goes according to plan.ULA announced on Tuesday (Aug. 5) that it's targeting Aug. 12 for USSF-106, a U.S. Space Force mission that will lift off from Cape Canaveral Space...
GEEKWIRE - Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among six companies that will be producing studies for NASA looking at low-cost ways to use orbital transfer vehicles to deliver spacecraft to hard-to-reach orbits for the space agency.The awards will support nine studies in all, with a maximum total value...
PR NEWSWIRE - New Frontier Aerospace (NFA) is excited to announce a Collaborative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) aimed at advancing an innovative rocket-powered hypersonic Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft. This partnership will leverage advanced aerodynamics and flight control techniques to...