NRP Stone Inc. announced the appointment of management following the acquisition of Uplift Aerospace Inc. Josh Hanes will lead the company as CEO. Upon graduation, Hanes was asked to write a trajectory model for an ion propulsion system for a NASA grant proposal and began his investigation of concrete, particularly for different environments and conditions on the Earth. This investigation resulted in applied knowledge from 2015 to 2020. Mr. Hanes owned and operated a multi-million-dollar equity fund for real estate projects in Texas. In 2019, he served as COO of Reef Life Foundation.