News & Updates

CCALS wishes a wonderful retirement to its longtime President and Executive Director, Mark Manasco

Longtime CCALS supporter Tom Polmateer “retires” to UVA role

Invitation to Give Kuwait Talk Continues International Collaboration

In 2022, the CCALS board said goodby to one of its founders and oldest friends – Denny Morris, longtime Executive Director for the Crater Planning District Commission (CPDC).

Pat Gottschalk, CCALS’ legal counsel for 11 years, was recently awarded an Honorary Lifetime Membership Award by The Virginia Economic Developers Association (VEDA) Board of Directors.

When the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering met in Vienna, Austria in October, DeAndre Johnson was excited to be among the presenters.

Professor James H. Lambert, Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, spoke to the urgency of systems modeling in this environment in his talk, “Disruption of Priorities and Design of Engineering Systems.” Dr. Lambert was invited to speak at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering on October 31, 2022 as part of its Civil & Environmental Engineering Seminars program.

The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Engineering has announced three project grants from the National Science Foundation and CHEST: The Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security & Trust, a CCALS partner.

To reach its 2040 goal of NetZero carbon emissions, the Port of Virginia (POV) must address the army of equipment that operates throughout the port 24/7 and is essential to the transfer of containers among ships, rail, and trucks. A team of University of Virginia (UVA) students presented some possible solutions to that challenge Sept. 27, 2022.

A system that accurately tracks inventories may be essential for prisons and correctional facilities, but selecting the right system – one that can withstand stressors like the recent COVID pandemic – is no easy task.