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› Growing startup Tomahawk Robotics wins multimillion-dollar defense deal
Tomahawk Robotics Inc. is growing fast, and it just landed one of its biggest defense deals. The Melbourne-based maker of robotics operating systems landed a $4.1 million contract with the U.S. Marine Corps, which will generate work at the company in 2021 and 2022. The award is for the Marine Corps’ Radio Agile Integrated Device program, meant to provide the military branch with a common way to control unmanned systems in the air and on the ground.
› Florida’s Senators Bring Back American Space Commerce Act
Florida‘s two U.S. senators–Republicans Marco Rubio and Rick Scott–brought back the “American Space Commerce Act” which will encourage American space firms to continue to invest in the U.S., including launching from American soil. The senators weighed in on the bill on Tuesday. After first bringing it out a year ago, Rubio brought it back at the end of last month.
› This Orlando thrift store fighting HIV/AIDS wants to be an ally for the city’s LGBT community
You can’t miss Out of the Closet thrift store, a new business in the Mills 50 district with striking pink-and-aqua-colored walls. It’s sort of Dr. Seussian, and at first glance looks to be just a consignment shop. But Out of the Closet is much more. It’s a thrift store, pharmacy and free HIV testing center, run as a nonprofit by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation that started in California.
› Orange Crush festival coming next weekend to Jacksonville's beaches, area clubs
A "culturally historic" informal beach festival scheduled for Juneteenth weekend in Jacksonville's beaches will include beach days, vendor villages and afterparties at several Jacksonviile clubs. The Orange Crush Festival, a loosely organized beach weekend that draws a largely Black college-age crowd, is planned for the beach on June 18-20.
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