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By Marissa Nall / Friday, July 29th, 2016 / Latest news, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Pacific Coast Business Times stock index yields big return
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By Staff Report / Monday, July 27th, 2015 / Latest news, South Coast, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on UCSB named West Coast hub for Photonics Institute
UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency will play a lead role in a $110 million federal program to develop new electronic products using the next generation of chip technology. UCSB will become the west coast hub for the newly formed American Institute for Manufacturing of Photonics (AIM), teaming with lead institution State University of Read More →
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By Staff Report / Monday, December 15th, 2014 / Latest news, Real Estate, South Coast, Top Stories / Comments Off on Former Raytheon property in Goleta sells for $2.8M
Once home to aerospace and defense firm Raytheon, the industrial building at 5756 Thornwood Drive in Goleta has new owners, and improvements are on the way.
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By Staff Report / Monday, September 22nd, 2014 / Real Estate, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Schaff buys Goleta offices from Towbes for $26.4M
South Coast real estate investor Victor Schaff has purchased a 120,000-square-foot-property in Goleta for $26.4 million. The property, which includes two 60,000-square-foot office buildings on a 10-acre parcel at 75 Coromar Drive in the Raytheon Business Park, was sold by Santa Barbara-based Towbes Capital Partners, the private-equity real estate affiliate of The Towbes Group. Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Monday, August 18th, 2014 / South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Infrared firms face off in smartphone market
Affordable thermal imaging is coming to a smartphone near you, with the South Coast emerging as a technology hotspot. Goleta-based Tyrian Systems, the company founded by longtime infrared entrepreneurs Bill Parrish and Tim Fitzgibbons that has raised $28.3 million, is changing its name to Seek Thermal and will offer a camera that plugs into smartphones Read More →
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By Staff Report / Friday, January 3rd, 2014 / Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Raytheon wins $70M radar jammer contract
Raytheon said Dec. 30 that it won a $70 million contract to produce radar jammers at one of its Goleta facilities to support foreign military sales to Morocco, Egypt and Iraq.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 29th, 2013 / Central Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Cal Poly boots up cybersecurity program
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is rolling out a new Cybersecurity Center in collaboration with Northup Grumman and Raytheon with an eye toward training security experts for the defense industry and giving all of its engineering students a firmer grasp of how to make their creations secure against hackers.