Gov. Kay Ivey gives remarks Thursday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of the Raytheon facility on Redstone Arsenal.

Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle and Madison Mayor Paul Finley join representatives from Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville Hospital, along with other community leaders, during a ribbon cutting ceremony on April 23.

Signs of Redstone Arsenal’s growth were on display last week, as the installation saw one new business cut a ribbon at the Redstone Gateway development and a contractor break ground on an expansion of its current facility.

On April 23, outside of the gates, Huntsville Hospital invited the community to see the new Gateway Medical Clinic, which officially opened today.

The clinic will serve patients 18 and older and offer primary care services, labs, ultrasounds, complete physicals for sports participation or employment, preventative medical screenings, collaborative care of patients with chronic medical conditions, and immunizations for those traveling abroad.

It’ll be headed by Dr. Rachel Jones, a former major in the Army and most recently a physician at Huntsville Hospital’s Physician Care at Madison.

“Being an experienced Army physician, the challenges of managing my patients daily, along with meeting required Army standards, made for an incredibly rewarding experience,” Jones said in a press release. “It also gave me a unique perspective on medicine and an amazing opportunity to better connect with patients, both military and civilian.

“I look forward to using all that I’ve learned throughout my career to lead the new HH Gateway Medical Clinic to great heights.”

Thursday afternoon, on the opposite side of post, Raytheon, an RTX business, broke ground on a 26,000 square-foot, $115 million expansion of the Redstone Raytheon Missile Integration Facility.

The company said it will increase the factory’s space for integrating and delivering defense programs by more than 50%.

The facility is the last stop for integrating many of the missile programs belonging to the Missile Defense Agency, Navy and other defense customers.

The facility currently handles the integration of nine variants of the Standard Missile family, including Standard Missile 3 and Standard Missile 6 and it will handle the Glide Phase Interceptor and other defense programs.

The company said the interceptor will be the first to defeat the emerging threat of hypersonic glide vehicles in their vulnerable glide phase of flight.

“This important investment in the Huntsville region will help us meet the growing needs of our military customers and service members,” Raytheon President Phil Jasper said in a press release. “It will also ready our operations to accelerate delivery of our vital counter-hypersonic solution.”

RTX also made a $200,000 donation to the Alabama School of Cyber Technology during the ceremony. In 2020, the company donated $4 million to help build the school’s permanent campus in Cummings Research Park.