New Orleans integrates Hyfi flood sensor data into the Streetwise platform to offer real-time flood information, enhancing safety and emergency response.

Tulane University researchers, funded by DARPA, are developing a stretchable and durable material inspired by superheroes, possibly for military use and wearable sensors.

Neuro.io plans to invest $100 million in creating a BrainHUB innovation campus in Louisiana's Bayou Region, promising to create over 1,100 jobs in AI and healthcare.

The Tulane Innovation Institute announces Founder Lab to convert research into startups, partnering entrepreneurs with faculty for market-ready technologies.

Mosquitoes in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, tested positive for West Nile Virus; mosquito control actions and personal protection measures are urged.

DMR Technologies is launching a drone manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Louisiana, creating 521 direct jobs with average annual salaries of $85,000, which will also stimulate an estimated 766 indirect jobs in the region.

MMR Group announces a $55.2 million investment in a new Lafayette, Louisiana facility to assemble electrical components for tech markets, expected to create 196 jobs and retain 3,000 positions statewide.

Orion Engineers + Constructors is relocating its headquarters from Alabama to Baton Rouge, expecting to create 50 new jobs and invest over $5 million.

Plan A Games is setting up an engineering team in New Orleans to develop a data analytics platform, promising to create high-skill jobs and reinforce the city's tech industry standing.

A New Orleans startup is turning haptic VR blasters into military training surrogates after scoring Army contracts, and it wants to build them locally. The company says consumer sales will help fund scaled manufacturing.

Vivace International is fabricating a major cone section for Starlab at NASA’s Michoud, and a recent Cerberus buyout could boost local production. The cone is due by June 2026.

Ochsner MD Anderson installed a PET‑guided biology‑guided radiotherapy system at Ochsner Baptist — the first in the U.S. South — to treat select lung and bone tumors.

LSU and Georgia Tech launched SCEFA, a DOE-backed academy to train community leaders across the Southeast on carbon capture, starting with a January workshop and a planned citizen’s handbook.

LSU’s FUEL is funding proof‑of‑concept grants, a brewery‑turned startup hub and new university programs to turn Baton Rouge labs into energy‑sector jobs. Early investments and a repurposed maker space are meant to keep innovation and jobs in Louisiana.

LDH is testing AI chatbots and automated call handling to streamline Medicaid and SNAP services and could save roughly $10 million a year while promising consent and privacy protections.

Beken Bio opened a lab at the New Orleans BioInnovation Center to develop a CLIA‑ready ovarian cancer blood test and accelerate clinical validation. Local investors are backing the move.

Amazon is reportedly in talks to buy Covington’s Globalstar for about $9 billion, a move that would accelerate its low‑Earth‑orbit plans and is complicated by Apple’s 20% stake.

A Michoud‑built section of NASA’s SLS rolled out Monday in New Orleans and will head by barge to Kennedy Space Center as crews prep final assembly for Artemis III.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told Michoud workers a Moon base and nuclear‑powered spacecraft could be built in New Orleans as production and hiring ramp up.

LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center is expanding clinical trials and precision oncology in New Orleans, adding early‑phase cellular studies and new specialists.

A loose cluster of Gulf Coast startups is turning bottles, 3‑D printed reef modules and drone mapping into tools to slow Louisiana’s land loss. Early pilots aim to buy communities time while big projects move slowly.

A Northwestern professor and four other diabetes researchers were escorted from the ADA Scientific Sessions in New Orleans after distributing reprints of a Diabetes Care editorial critical of proposed NIH policy changes.

UT Austin researchers found Gulf Coast coal and ash contain large rare‑earth inventories on paper, but low per‑ton value and tricky extraction keep the economics tight. Pilot projects and co‑products may be the only realistic path to profit.

Tulane’s Dr. Sina Pourtaheri is combining protein nanocapsules that restored movement in mice with biodegradable antibiotic spheres aimed at preventing post‑surgical infections. Federal and university backing is pushing the work toward translation.

SpaceX has agreed to provide Reflection AI with GB300-class compute at its Colossus campus near Memphis in a deal that could reach $6.3 billion.