{"id":55006,"date":"2022-07-22T19:57:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T11:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/members-of-congress-cut-ribbon-on-hawkeye-360s-new-manufacturing-facility-in-virginia\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T19:57:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T11:57:47","slug":"members-of-congress-cut-ribbon-on-hawkeye-360s-new-manufacturing-facility-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/members-of-congress-cut-ribbon-on-hawkeye-360s-new-manufacturing-facility-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of Congress Cut Ribbon on Hawkeye 360\u2019s New Manufacturing Facility in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Members of U.S. Congress joined <strong>HawkEye 360<\/strong> CEO John Serafini on Friday to cut the ribbon on the company\u2019s brand new 19,000-square foot satellite manufacturing facility in Herndon, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Reps. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., and Don Beyer, D-Va., both spoke at the HawkEye 360 event, lauding the company\u2019s ability to both deliver a new layer of radio frequency (RF) signal intelligence to the U.S. government and new high-tech jobs to the district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs most of us know, as we become more dependent on space-based technologies, bad actors have a new array of tempting targets to do us harm,\u201d Congresswoman Wexton said in her remarks. \u201cWe\u2019re all familiar with the three-letter agencies and the departments that keep us safe every day. I know a lot of them will actually benefit from the technologies that HawkEye 360 is developing here at this facility. In addition to our greater reliance on space technology, the state of Virginia\u2019s future economic growth also relies more and more on the high-tech jobs that are created here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHawkEye 360 is adding RF intelligence capabilities for U.S. defense and national security agencies in ways that nobody else is doing,\u201d Congressman Beyer added.<\/p>\n<p>The new HawkEye 360 Advanced Technology and Development Center will house approximately 70 engineering and tech-focused employees. The facility brings its satellite and payload assembly, data engineering and development operations in house, resulting in quicker, more efficient turnaround and delivery for launch. It is also being used to attract high-tech employees. Company officials told <em>Via Satellite<\/em> that the company, which currently employs about 150 people, is hoping to grow to 200 employees within a year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, Serafini called the facility called the facility a major investment for both HawkEye 360 and the local Northern Virginia community. \u201cWe invested more than $1 million in this facility and the clean room and we anticipate investing tens of millions of dollars in the local economy in the coming years,\u201d said Serafini<\/p>\n<p>During a tour, HawkEye 360 engineers described the new facility\u2019s 1,000-square foot clean room as a \u201csignificant convenience,\u201d giving them the ability to test satellites and make final adjustments to each of its three-satellite \u201cclusters\u201d before sending them into space. The building also houses an electronics lab for advanced RF technology and smallsat manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>HawkEye 360 anticipates launching its sixth cluster with Rocket Lab from Wallops Island, Virginia before the end of the year. The launch would bring its total constellation to 18 satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of U.S. Congress joined HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini on Friday to cut the ribbon on the company\u2019s brand new 19,000-square foot satellite manufacturing facility in Herndon, Virginia. U.S. Reps. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., and Don Beyer, D-Va., both spoke at the HawkEye 360 event, lauding the company\u2019s ability to both deliver a new layer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}