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 August 2011 The 1st International Conference for Smart Green Airport R&D XArc Founder invited to S. Korea as guest speaker for conference topic on commercial spaceports At the invitation of the Incheon International Airport Corporation and the ROK Air Force, XArc Founder and President, Sam Ximenes will be a guest speaker at The 1st International Conference for Smart Green Airport R&D, to be held 2 September, 2011 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Mr. Ximenes will speak to the topic of Commercial Spaceport Development as applies to the conference theme of development of next generation airports, "Innovation & Renovation; Road Map for R&D and the Future of Airports". May 2011 U.S. Army Corp of Engineers U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards XArc five-year contract for civil engineering courses XArc Corp announces award of a 5 year contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for continuation of educational services to provide course development and classroom training in the civil engineering topic of "Slope Stability Analysis”. USACE personnel responsible for design or loading conditions for soils will receive professional development training conducted at the USACE Learning Center, in Huntsville, Alabama. The Slope Stability Analysis contract has a one year base period of performance with four option years. April 2011 NIACS XArc, JPL, and SICSA form team to submit NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts proposal Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc), the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the University of Houston Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) have partnered to develop an advanced mission concept for space exploration. The XArc team proposal, "Mission Architecture and Technologies for Lunar Lava Tube Reconnaissance" is in response to a NASA Research Announcement for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIACS). February 2011 Aerospace Corporation The Aerospace Corporation retains XArc for business development and consulting services Exploration Architecture Corporation is retained to provide proposal support and business development services to The Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California. XArc will support Aerospace with market research, business case analysis and capture strategy development for opportunities identified with NASA's International Space Station and human exploration and spaceflight initiatives. January 2011 Lava Tube Analog Mission Testbed BC Ministry of Environment issues Park Use Permit to XArc international consortium for lava tube research The XArc international team of lava tube analog mission researchers receives Park Use Permit from British Columbia, Ministry of Environment to conduct analog studies within the Nisga'a Memorial Lava Bed Park. An XArc international consortium of planetary scientists, caving and mining experts, robotic experts, and human performance experts (Nov '09 News Item), has received its Park Use Permit from the Ministry of Environment - BC Parks, Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park to conduct planetary lava tube analog mission research within the park area where unmapped lava tubes exist.
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