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3 weeks ago | 
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Keith Button
Text and voice alerts would notify pilots of nearby aircraft Today’s lexicon of automated cockpit alerts include such classics as “Pull up! Pull up!” and “Terrain! Terrain!” If Honeywell Aerospace Technologies has its way, pilots could soon get a new one: “Traffic on runway! Traffic on runway!” The Phoenix-based avionics developer this month concluded the latest round of flight tests and demonstrations of its Surface Alert, or SURF-A. Honeywell is targeting June 2026 to receive FAA approval...
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1 month ago | 
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Keith Button
Results so far indicate the lightweight design withstood high levels of radiation On March 16, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander made its last transmission from the surface of the moon, marking the end of the Texas company’s first lunar mission. But the next phase of work was just beginning for a team of Montana State University researchers whose radiation-resilient computer was among the lander’s payloads.
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1 month ago | 
benefitnews.com | Keith Button
Now more than 20 years into her HR career, Brooke Shreeve says she has become an evangelist for chatbots, partly because of her survival instincts. "I have to stay up on what's new; if I don't I'll get replaced by somebody who will," says Shreeve, chief people officer at Weave, a healthcare payments software company.
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2 months ago | 
benefitnews.com | Keith Button
When the Aspida insurance company launched in 2020, its chief people officer Sandy Ball saw an opportunity to create a company culture from scratch. She wanted that culture to appeal in particular to Gen Z and millennials, which eventually became 80% of the Durham, North Carolina, company's workforce, Ball says. "We were a startup. We needed an entrepreneurial mindset; we needed people that weren't hung up in bureaucracy," she says.
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2 months ago | 
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Keith Button
Firefly Aerospace claims mantle as first commercial company to make fully successful landing on the moonThe Mini Cooper-sized Blue Ghost lander that touched down on the moon this morning carries lots of interesting technologies, but chief among them are the crumple cartridges in its landing legs and the prototype of a small, radiation resilient computer of a kind that could ride on spacecraft headed to the moon or Mars.
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2 months ago | 
benefitnews.com | Keith Button
More workers are feeling "rattled" — potentially just one setback away from seeking a new job or one positive development from staying on board, according to a newly released global survey of 38,000 workers. ADP classified workers into three categories: Thriving, overwhelmed or rattled. While thriving workers tend to experience pressure at work as positive stress, even enjoying last-minute "fire-drill deadlines," overwhelmed workers are more likely to experience work pressure as negative stress.
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2 months ago | 
benefitnews.com | Keith Button
Rob Edwards became an advocate for neurodivergent people soon after his son's autism diagnosis nine years ago and subsequent ADHD diagnoses of other family members, including his own about three years ago. Now, as chief executive officer of the U.K.-based Neurodiversity and Entrepreneurship Association, he makes the case for why companies should hire and support neurodivergent employees: The 15-20% of the global population that includes people who have autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
benefitnews.com | Keith Button
The market for human resources technologies will be shaped in the coming months by companies seeking to consolidate those technologies while boosting efficiency and cutting costs, according to analysts. This year, reducing inefficiencies in HR processes and cutting spending for those processes will be the main drivers of HR technology spending, says George LaRocque, founder and chief analyst of WorkTech, an HR tech advisory firm based in New Providence, New Jersey.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
benefitnews.com | Keith Button
Most millennial and Gen Z employees are in for a rude awakening when they retire because they aren't saving enough and they're getting bad tax advice, according to the head of a Phoenix-based wealth management firm. Employees born in the 1981-to-2012 millennial and Gen Z eras just aren't as concerned about retirement planning as their parents and grandparents were, says Stewart Willis, president of Asset Preservation Wealth & Tax.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
benefitnews.com | Keith Button
Fresh off a Jan. 1 acquisition with two more potentially this month, Employer.com continues to see merger and acquisition opportunities in human resources technologies. The San Francisco company had largely focused on acquiring HR technologies prior to buying fintech Bench Accounting, an online bookkeeping services provider based in Vancouver, British Columbia, earlier this month for an undisclosed price.
