Jessica Leigh Weiss Celebrated for Expertise in Technology and Development Strategy
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Jessica Leigh Weiss Celebrated for Expertise in Technology and Development Strategy

Technology tamfitronics KAILUA KONA, HI, June 26, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Jessica Leigh Weiss has been recognized for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.Ms. Weiss has established a niche for herself as a diversity, equity, inclusion, talent strategy leader and organizational development leader at Google for Google Cloud. Beginning her tenure in 2021, she has rapidly become an integral part of Google Cloud security's leadership team. Her role encompasses leading a team of over 80 Google community contributors on DEI programming, and designing and implementing organizational development programs for a global workforce of ~5000 employees worldwide. She's...
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Total Expert launches marketplace for marketing technologies
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Total Expert launches marketplace for marketing technologies

Technology tamfitronics Customer engagement platform Total Expert is launching a marketplace this week for financial institutions to build their marketing technology stack.Partners will plug into the Total Expert platform to offer solutions such as chats and texts supported by artificial intelligence (AI), targeted mail campaigns, and management of their online reputation. Customers, including banks, lenders and insurance companies, will have access to data and action systems under “one roof.”“For us, it’s impossible to build every piece of technology that our customers need. What we focused on is listening to the problems our customers are trying to solve, the value that they want to be delivered, and then ultimately aligning with the partners in our marketplace to enable those things to happen,” Joe Welu, founder and CEO of Total Expert, said in an interview. “But it...
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SpaceX is building a NASA craft to intentionally destroy the International Space Station after retiring
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SpaceX is building a NASA craft to intentionally destroy the International Space Station after retiring

NASA Space Technology A satellite image shows an overview of the International Space Station with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, June 7, 2024.Maxar Technologies | Via ReutersNASA will have a spacecraft from Elon Musk's SpaceX guide the International Space Station's destruction later this decade, the agency announced Wednesday.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded an $843 million contract to SpaceX to build the so-called "U.S. Deorbit Vehicle." The spacecraft will be designed to guide the football-field-sized research laboratory back into the Earth's atmosphere after retiring in 2030.The SpaceX-built vehicle will effectively destroy the ISS by pushing the station into reentry from orbit."It is crucial to prepare for the safe and responsible deorbit of the International Space Station in a controlled manner," NASA said in a press release, with the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle needed to "ensure avoidance...
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NASA awards SpaceX contract for space station deorbit vehicle
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NASA awards SpaceX contract for space station deorbit vehicle

NASA Space Technology The International Space Station as seen from a Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2021. Credit: NASAWASHINGTON — NASA selected SpaceX to develop a spacecraft that will be used to perform the final phases of the deorbiting of the International Space Station around the end of the decade.NASA announced June 26 it awarded SpaceX a contract valued at up to $843 million to build the United States Deorbit Vehicle (USDV). That contract covers the development of the spacecraft, with NASA to conduct a later procurement for launching the USDV.The agency announced more than a year ago its intent to pursue development of the USDV. The spacecraft will dock with the ISS and perform the final series of maneuvers needed to make a controlled reentry of the station over a remote ocean region like the...
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