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“My responsibility is to obtain fair, full, and maximum settlements and awards for our injured clients, compensation that accounts for all the ways the injury has affected their past, present, and future.”

Douglas R. Horn is the Lead Attorney of The Horn Law Firm, P.C. where he exclusively represents persons injured in motor vehicle collisions, work & industrial accidents, premises liability, and accidents resulting from general negligence.

Since 1991, Horn has handled a wide variety of personal injury matters with a special emphasis in cases that involve more serious injury to adults and children who require extended medical treatment and rehabilitation.

As a highly rated and reviewed lawyer, Horn has a 30+ track record of maximizing personal injury settlements and awards for his injured clients.

In addition to his law practice, Horn regularly gives personal injury law presentations for national attorney audiences, including those that are focused on head, neck, back, and spinal injuries resulting from car, truck, and motorcycle collisions.

During the course of his legal career, as his practice has increasingly concentrated in motor vehicle accident law, Horn has developed an expertise in a range of traffic safety issues. Beginning in 2009, Horn has used his legal experience to advance driver safety, particularly in the areas of teen driver protection, distracted driving prevention, and traffic fatality reduction.

Horn is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum which recognizes America’s top trial lawyers.

Born and raised in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Horn earned his B.A. from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, and his J.D. from Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.

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For over 30 years my job has been to protect the injured by making sure our clients receive fair, full, and maximum personal injury settlements and awards.

Right from the start, when an injured person alerts me to their case, my priority is to take care of the immediate issues, handle the claims adjusters, initiate the legal investigations, and secure the important evidence.

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Palantir's institutional sovereignty pitch is real. So is the depth, sensitivity, and reach of the citizen data it now touches across allied governments.

TYSONS, Va., Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Permuta Technologies today published the 3rd in a Series of Whitepapers focused on AI and government, "You Can't Permission Your Way Out of Surveillance at Scale," examining the structural risks of AI enabled, government facing data fusion at national scale. The whitepaper responds to Palantir's "Institutional Sovereignty in the Age of AI" framing by arguing that while protections like zero data retention, model agnostic architecture, granular permissions, and continuous audit logging are important for third party model providers, they do not address the separate and higher stakes risk that a single vendor ontology can concentrate deeply sensitive citizen data across agencies such as immigration, tax, health, and defense. Using the UK NHS Federated Data Platform as a cautionary example, the paper concludes that sovereignty is determined at adoption, and that permissioning and logging can monitor concentration but cannot undo it once it exists.

"AI controls are necessary, but they cannot substitute for structural limits on how and where government data is fused. The key decision is made before signing, said "Sig Behrens, CEO of Permuta, "and that is why the 3rd Whitepaper demands early exit mechanisms, enforceable architectural separation, and hard evaluation of concentration risk, not just model provider risk."

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Permuta Technologies is a readiness software company delivering mission critical solutions to federal, defense, and government organizations. Built on Microsoft technologies, Permuta's platform enables organizations to put the right people in the right place at the right time.

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P&G Febreze Product Benefits From ISS National Lab-Sponsored R&D

May 3, 2022 • By Amy Thompson, Staff Writer

More than 4 billion people worldwide—which is greater than half the Earth’s population—use Procter & Gamble (P&G) household products every day.

The latest formulation of P&G’s Febreze Unstopables Touch Fabric Spray not only is one of those products but also benefits from research sponsored by the International Space Station (ISSInternational Space Station) National Laboratory. According to P&G researcher Matt Lynch, the product, which now features touch-activated scent release technology, is the first P&G product to incorporate materials based on the company’s space-based research.

Many of P&G’s products, ranging from shampoos and detergents to medicines and more, are comprised of mixtures of tiny particles suspended in a liquid. These mixtures are called colloids. In an effort to improve product design, P&G has teamed up with the ISS National Lab and NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration to study how colloids behave in space.

On Earth, gravity causes some of the particles in colloids to sink, while others rise. In microgravityThe condition of perceived weightlessness created when an object is in free fall, for example when an object is in orbital motion. Microgravity alters many observable phenomena within the physical and life sciences, allowing scientists to study things in ways not possible on Earth. The International Space Station provides access to a persistent microgravity environment., however, this type of buoyancy-driven fluid movement is reduced. Studying the interactions of the particles in the absence of gravity enables researchers to not only improve current products but also create new ones. The P&G Febreze product mentioned above is an example of a product that benefitted from research in the microgravity environment of the ISS.

“This product looks and feels like water,” Lynch said, “but it has these special microscopic capsules in it that contain perfume.”

He explained that the perfume capsules help to distribute a small burst of freshness whenever people rub their hand on or walk over something that has been sprayed with the product. The idea is that the spray would create a nice sensory experience for consumers and mitigate offensive smells simply with a touch of the hand.

For the product to work like it should, researchers had to create microstructures and suspend them in the fluid. The key question was how to keep the structures suspended for long periods of time while the product sat on stores shelves.

“Most products that have these dispersed particles tend to separate, like salad dressing, where you have to shake the heck out of it to be able to use it,” Lynch said. “The tricky part is figuring out how to keep them from doing so.”

Here’s where microgravity comes in: By sending these mixtures to the space station, the research team could better understand the fundamental forces at play. “We’ve been able to look at our system on a particle-by-particle basis in order to better design the structures in these products,” Lynch said.

This is the first example of a P&G product that directly benefitted from research on the ISS. However, Lynch says that in the future, more of P&G’s biggest brands could benefit from space-based research, and the findings could lead to improved products for consumers. “If you think about the number of people that use our products, we’re making a significant contribution that will help a lot of people.”

The ISS and Household Products: How P&G is Using Space to Improve Customer Experience

September 27, 2016 • By Emily Tomlin, Staff Writer

In an era of increasing commercial innovation in space, many big-name companies are taking to the skies to explore how microgravityThe condition of perceived weightlessness created when an object is in free fall, for example when an object is in orbital motion. Microgravity alters many observable phenomena within the physical and life sciences, allowing scientists to study things in ways not possible on Earth. The International Space Station provides access to a persistent microgravity environment. research might enhance their products. But for Procter & Gamble (P&G), a giant among household product providers, spaceflight has been a part of their R&D portfolio for almost a decade—and recently, they have shared exciting progress from their ISSInternational Space Station experiments investigating the new science of polydisperse systems.

A common problem in the consumer product world is how to develop new and clever ways of suspending materials in fluids. Consumer foams and gels—such as the familiar products from Gain®, Dawn®, Tide®, Olay®, Gillette®, Pantene®, and many other P&G brands—depend on the stability of such mixtures. This is particularly true for polydisperse mixtures; that is, liquids or gels that contain particles of different sizes in suspension. Unfortunately, how these mixtures move and break down is often not fully understood, which poses a challenge to product designers and manufacturers: How to create better, longer-lasting products that maintain all their desired features.

The Problem of Polydispersity

If a company creates sticky particles of the same size and introduces them into a mixture, the particles organize themselves into strands. These individual strands interact to form the net structure product chemistry seeks to exploit.

But the behavior of sticky particles of varying sizes—the attractive interactions of polydisperse systems—is not well understood. It is these more complex systems that may hold the key to better products with enhanced features and longer shelf life. Polydisperse mixtures behave very differently than the more well-defined systems with uniform particle size.

For example, shampoos contain oils that give the product nice characteristics for a consumer; for example, the oils condition hair and make it easier to brush. But oil droplets suspended in a liquid tend to separate over time, because the oil tends to float to the top. So how does a manufacturer keep these droplets suspended in solution without changing the product so much that it loses its functional and preferable characteristics?

Building Microscopic Nets

One way to keep droplets suspended is to introduce tiny sticky particulates into a mixture. These micro- and nano-sized particles stick together to create strands that form a net structure within a fluid, stabilizing the movement and dispersity of larger droplets in the mixture. The behavior and effectiveness of such “nets” is the focus of P&G research on the ISS, led by P&G Principal Scientist Matthew Lynch.

“We need overarching mathematical models to describe interactions within these complex mixtures,” said Lynch. “We need to build predictability to model, improve, and design for commercial product development.”

For nets to stabilize a complex mixture, they have to possess mechanical strength. The net must “catch” larger droplets responsible for product benefits (such as oils), keeping the droplets from separating out of solution. But the net also has to be flexible—it must stretch and even break so the mixture can flow like the commercial foams and gels a consumer is used to.

For example, the fluid mixture that makes up a shampoo must flow like a liquid when a consumer squeezes it out of the bottle. However, while the shampoo sits in the bottle, both the manufacturer and the consumer ideally want the solution to behave almost like a solid—keeping the droplets of active materials in place, dispersed throughout the bottle. An ideal product thus acts like a solid as it sits on a shelf in the store or in your home—or even as it is transported down a bumpy road—but under the influence of mechanical force (such as squeezing the bottle), the product flows like liquid.

“We need to get the interactions just right to meet both sets of conditions,” said Lynch. “By performing experiments on the ISS, we can ask basic science questions about how these mixtures behave and eventually have a tangible impact on product definition.”

Basic (rather than applied) science works to answer these fundamental questions and build a foundation for new technologies and new ideas. Lynch’s team works on “upstream R&D” at P&G, performing investigations in such basic sciences—and eventually improving mathematical models to describe the underlying phenomena responsible for the behavior of fluid mixtures.

Estimating Shelf Life

Technically termed complex fluid physics, the basic science P&G is performing onboard the ISS is the study of colloids, or mixtures of particles dispersed in fluids. On the ISS, the complexity of the mixtures in the P&G experiments is somewhat balanced by the simplified elegance of fluid physics in microgravity. Changes in product behavior happen more slowly in microgravity because of reduced buoyancy-driven fluid movement. Moreover, there are fewer confounding factors to studying these systems on the ISS (for example, sedimentation, which is gravity driven).

The ISS has thus allowed P&G to isolate and study the interactions within complex systems under time scales not possible on Earth. Specifically, Lynch’s team has been investigating how the nets within fluids keep droplets dispersed and maintain a product’s functional characteristics. The ultimate commercial application of this science is something every consumer can appreciate—shelf life, which is dependent on how long these nets stay intact.

“Imagine you have a strand of sticky particles that hold all this stress,” said Lynch, “but there’s a characteristic time scale for how this strand will change and break down over time.” As the many strands within a product break down, the product’s structure will eventually collapse, and the various components of the mixture will separate. The product then becomes unusable.

Companies currently have some understanding of the probability of strand breakdown within nets over time, and they use this to predict shelf life. But current models for how this occurs are one-size-fits-all, best describing only simple systems with sticky particles of uniform dimensions. True product chemistry involves polydispersity—interacting particles of many sizes. Breakdown within polydisperse mixtures is complex and difficult to model or predict, let alone to exploit for design of better product formulations.

In other words, current models can give companies indications of how product breakdown will occur, but in the real world, mixtures are not simple, static systems—they are dynamic and complex. Therefore, pragmatic approaches to not only predict shelf life but also improve product design must be driven by a better understanding of the underlying fundamental physics—and the ISS is ideal for this kind of investigation.

Studying Product Behavior

For P&G, the robust history of colloid physics investigations onboard the ISS also paved the way for a streamlined, effective R&D experience in space. In collaboration with NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration, CASIS(Abbreviation: CASIS™) The nonprofit organization that manages the ISS National Lab, which receives at least 50 percent of the U.S. research allocation on the International Space Station to facilitate research that benefits humanity (NASA manages the other 50% and focuses on research for space exploration purposes)., Harvard, Case Western Research, and service provider ZIN Technologies, Inc., two series of P&G experiments were conducted over the past decade, with complementary goals and results building a new knowledge base for understanding polydispersity.

“Typically, the more complex experiments can have timelines of three years or more,” said Christopher Sheehan, area manager at ZIN Technologies, “but in this case we were able to leverage lessons learned from previous NASA experiments to enable flight of multiple payloads within a comparatively short time frame.”

The experiments—one series through NASA sponsorship and the other through CASIS and the ISS National Lab—involved the study of complex fluids at both ends of the spectrum: microscopic and macroscopic.

In the NASA-sponsored experiments (part of the Advanced Colloids Experiment, or ACE, series on the ISS), P&G studied colloid dispersions—the fundamental physics of how suspended particles move and evolve over time within a fluid. The systems studied not only varied particle size but also differing levels of particle stickiness—which can also be controlled as part of product design.

Basic science knowledge about how these varied mixtures and particles behave will allow manufacturers to predict characteristics, including shelf life, of commercial products that depend on this physics and chemistry.

In contrast, the CASIS-sponsored experiments (part of the Binary Colloidal Alloy Test, or BCAT, series) looked not at microstructure but rather at the ensemble, over longer time scales. Functionally, this allowed P&G to assess the “aging” of a mixture at a very detailed level, because the separation of mixtures occurs more slowly and evenly within spaceflight samples than on Earth.

Bringing Home the Benefits

The parallel approach of P&G’s multiple investigations, correlating the microscopic data from ACE with the macroscopic phenomena from BCAT, has allowed the company to see evolving “textures” at the product level that correlate with microscopic events.

Common Modular Solid Rocket Motors are in Production at Ursa Major

Just over two years ago, Ursa Major set out to re-imagine how solid rocket motors are designed and produced so the United States can replenish critical all-domain missile stockpiles faster, at lower cost, and with high performance—solving the SRM shortfall. Today, that manufacturing approach is delivering a common modular product architecture.

The problem we set out to solve was clear. Legacy SRM manufacturing is slow, brittle, and optimized for single-product lines. The warfighter needs surge capacity and rapid replenishment, not another custom production cell. With Ursa Major’s additive-first, software-backed Lynx process and common production architecture, we’ve built a mixed-manufacturing system that treats SRM production as a repeatable, scalable product line. We deliver SRMs around core architectures with shared components, tooling, and software, that create commonality across the board so most platforms can be served by a standard, lower-cost motor family that still meets performance objectives.

In addition to full execution of our first-of-its-kind manufacturing process, we have:

- completed multiple independent audits, both from government and defense prime customers, that evaluated our energetics and manufacturing processes, providing validation of safety, quality, and scalability.

- increased sustained motor production rate to ~200 motors per year and maintained that cadence for several months, proving meaningful production capacity – and this is just the start.

- proved mixed-model production at scale and are actively manufacturing four different diameter motor sizes concurrently on the same production equipment, running different diameters and lengths through the same flow without line retooling.

- demonstrated operational agility in production. When a customer requested a change to a motor’s thrust profile mid-production, our team modified the design and restarted the line the same day — a capability that is practically impossible on traditional SRM production lines.

- established a Highly Loaded Grain testing pedigree with more than 30 HLG motor tests in the last 5 months, validating HLG as a practical solution to increase propellant mass and extend range without increasing motor size.

- sustained a regular test cadence of roughly four static fire tests per week, so designs can be refined faster and with confidence.

Ursa Major’s flexible manufacturing method is game-changing for replenishing the nation’s SRM inventory. Our common modular approach means we can scale quickly to meet demand across multiple customers and services and domains. In addition, using physics-based process qualification enables us to reduce program schedule and risk by eliminating the need for bespoke qualification for each motor variant, instead qualifying the production method.

Looking to the future, we’re preparing for the next set of milestones, including flight tests and ramped production. Ursa Major will continue partnering with the Pentagon, new and traditional primes, and our customers to deliver motors across a range of munitions while scaling production throughput and qualifying additional SRM variants.

What people often call ambitious, we call deliberate engineering. Ursa Major’s mixed-manufacturing approach was designed to make SRM production fast, flexible, and repeatable. We’ve proven those concepts in the factory and on the test stand with industrialized propellant production, concurrent mixed‑model manufacturing, sustained production rates, and a growing library of HLG test results. The core tenets of our common, modular and flexible manufacturing method have been demonstrated, and the results are real, American-made, and ready to deliver for the warfighter.

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An Internship Program Built Around Real-World Challenges

What if your internship was an opportunity to work on the technology, projects, and challenges shaping the future of aerospace?

At Ursa Major, interns do more than observe. They join teams, take on meaningful projects, and contribute to work that matters. From hypersonic engine testing and manufacturing to major company events, Summer 2026 interns worked alongside experienced professionals across Ursa Major’s Berthoud, Youngstown, and Washington, D.C. locations.

For many, that experience has become a path to something bigger: a career at Ursa Major.

What Happens When Interns Get to Do the Real Work?

Trey Lustenberger joined Ursa Major as a Configuration Intern after graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor’s degree in physics. His internship led to a full-time position, and Trey now works as a Configuration Engineer.

During his internship, Trey took ownership of projects that connected his work directly to Ursa Major’s hardware and testing programs.

“One of my favorite projects this summer was the drawing for Draper Block 1 As-Tested Tooling Kit,” Trey said. “It excites me knowing I had the opportunity to work on a product that could potentially see the testbed and fly.”

For Trey, the internship offered more than experience to add to a résumé. It gave him the opportunity to contribute to a product with the potential to fly and ultimately become part of the team building it.

What If Your Internship Let You Get Your Hands on the Hardware?

William Stehn, a senior at Clemson University pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical engineering, first joined Ursa Major in Summer 2025. Since then, he has held internship roles spanning manufacturing and engineering.

This summer, William worked as a Test Stand Engineering Intern at the Berthoud campus, gaining direct experience with hypersonic engines firing on test stands.

“My main project was the development of a new modular coldbox that will allow [Ursa Major] to cool the engine, simulating high-altitude flight in testing.”

Projects like this give interns the chance to work directly with hardware and solve problems with real applications. For William, that experience has been valuable enough to bring him

back time again, and he will continue as a Liquids Manufacturing Intern for the academic year.

Aerospace Needs More Than Engineers

The work at Ursa Major extends beyond engineering.

Isabel Hillberg, a senior at Colorado State University studying communications joined Ursa Major as a Marketing & Communications Intern at the beginning of 2026.

“My favorite project over the summer was planning the Longmont ribbon-cutting event and watching it come together,” Isabel said. “Having Governor Polis speak at the event was a highlight to that experience.”

As Ursa Major rapidly develops cutting-edge technology and builds the infrastructure to bring it to market, interns have a rare opportunity to contribute during a pivotal stage of the company’s growth.

Through projects like this, Isabel gained firsthand experience in how marketing and communications supports an organization as it scales from startup to growth-stage.

For Many Interns, The Work Continues

For many students, the Summer 2026 internship was only the beginning. Ursa Major is excited to welcome Aadit Gohil, Josh Bumann, Lucas Lovnander, Barkot Simegn, William Stehn, Isabel Hillberg, and Benjamin Windt back as interns this fall.

Their continues work with Ursa Major reflects what an internship can become when students are given the opportunity to contribute from day one.

An internship should be more than a line on a résumé. It should put you in the room where the work is happening, give you problems worth solving, and surround you with people who are building something important.

Start your career by doing work that matters. Explore opportunities at Ursa Major.

Internships for 2027 will be open later this year.

Ursa Major Appoints Jason Meredith as President

BERTHOUD, Colo. — October 13, 2026 — Ursa Major today announced the promotion of Jason Meredith to President of Ursa Major. In his new role, Meredith will lead business execution across Ursa Major with responsibility for the company’s full profit and loss.

“Jason has the experience and leadership to bring this next phase of Ursa Major to life,” said Chris Spagnoletti, CEO of Ursa Major. “He understands our technology, our customers and what it takes to execute at scale. As President, he will bring that experience across the entire business and help ensure we continue delivering for our customers as Ursa Major grows.”

Meredith most recently served as President of Solid Missile Systems, where he led program execution and engineering across Ursa Major’s growing solid rocket motor portfolio. His promotion comes as Ursa Major continues to scale production across its long-range and hypersonics missiles, solid rocket motors, and space mobility businesses and prepares to become a publicly traded company.

“I’m excited to take on this role at an important point in Ursa Major’s growth,” said Meredith. “We have strong technology, growing demand and a manufacturing approach built to scale. My focus will be on bringing those pieces together across the business so we can move faster, increase production and deliver the capabilities our warfighters need to meet the mission.”

Meredith brings more than two decades of aerospace, defense and solid propulsion experience, with senior engineering, program and business leadership roles at ATK, Orbital ATK, Northrop Grumman, and Pratt & Whitney. He joined Ursa Major in 2026 to lead its Solid Missile Systems business and the continued expansion of the company’s solid rocket motor capabilities.

About Ursa Major

Ursa Major is an advanced weapons and space systems company delivering flight-proven capabilities for hypersonics, solid rocket motors, and space mobility. Headquartered in Berthoud, Colorado, with additive manufacturing operations in Youngstown, Ohio, Ursa Major leverages advanced production techniques and flexible architectures to build systems for all domains: land, air, sea, and space. The company is revitalizing the defense industrial base for the U.S. and its allies, flying faster to accelerate delivery of critical capabilities where speed and adaptability matter most. For more information, visit www.ursamajor.com.

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Ursa Major Successfully Completes SRM Manufacturing Pathfinder Program with U.S. Navy and OSC

The cost-share program concluded on schedule in February 2026 and represents a $25 million joint investment by Ursa Major, the US Navy, and OSC.

DENVER—(July 7, 2026) — Ursa Major has completed its Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) Manufacturing Pathfinder Program conducted in partnership with the U.S. Navy and Office of Strategic Capital (OSC).

Over the course of the program, Ursa Major achieved several key technical and manufacturing milestones. The Company designed, manufactured, and successfully static-fired an HLG 10-inch SRM prototype. Ursa Major also developed and characterized a proprietary propellant for the motor. The motor met all performance objectives and burn duration requirements, achieving a technical and manufacturing foundation for future U.S. Navy systems that require a 10” diameter SRM.

“In partnership with the Navy and OSC, we translated capital into real, measurable outcomes that scaled manufacturing capacity and advanced a production model built for speed and surge,” said Chris Spagnoletti, CEO of Ursa Major. “This program validated that when the government invests in companies that are used to doing more with less, companies that prioritize execution, innovation, and manufacturability from day one, you get capability that matters on timelines that matter. That’s how we rebuild the defense industrial base, and how we deliver credible, scalable capability to the joint force.”

With this program, Ursa Major invested heavily in facility scaling and process improvements to expand its SRM production capabilities. Program milestones were intentionally structured to act as a pathfinder for larger systems. The program also enabled significant refinement of the Company’s common, modular manufacturing process, known as Lynx, which uses Highly Loaded Grain and enables subsystem commonality across components. This approach reduces tooling costs and lead times while increasing flexibility and scalability across multiple motor variants. As a result, Ursa Major is ready to scale to support the U.S. Navy’s demand for solid rocket motors.

The work was conducted in close collaboration with the Naval Air Weapons Center Weapons Division at China Lake, the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division, and Naval acquisitions to streamline development, align technical execution with mission-specific requirements, and ensure the manufacturing approach supports real-world operational needs. The work directly supported the Department of War’s Strategic Objective Needs by focusing on manufacturability, scalability, and rapid qualification of SRM technologies critical to missile and rocket systems across the joint force.

About Ursa Major

Ursa Major is an aerospace and defense company delivering flight-proven capabilities for hypersonics, solid rocket motors, space mobility and launch. Headquartered in Berthoud, Colorado, with additive manufacturing operations in Youngstown, Ohio, Ursa Major leverages advanced production techniques and flexible architectures to build systems for all domains: land, air, sea, and space. The company is revitalizing the defense industrial base for the U.S. and its allies, flying faster to accelerate delivery of critical capabilities where speed and adaptability matter most. For more information, visit www.ursamajor.com.

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