Arun GuptaCEO of the NobleReach Foundation

Bridging Engineering and Business | NobleReach Scholar Liam Murray

31 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short testimonial, Liam Murray describes his placement through Noble Reach at Aerofly LLC. He explains his daily routine, which combines technical work on NASA contracts in the mornings with business development activities such as outreach to prospective customers in the afternoons. Murray credits Noble Reach’s speaker series for providing the skills that help him bridge engineering and business, noting that these insights are directly applied to a Phase 2 NASA SBIR project and to commercializing a product. He emphasizes the broader impact of the program, stating that Noble Reach inspires participants to add value and become future innovators, and identifies himself as part of the “Mission Generation.”

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I'm Liam Murray, and my placement through Noble Reach is at Aerofly LLC. My day-to-day life at Aerofly: in the mornings we have tag-ups with our contracts that we currently work for, for NASA, and then kind of in the afternoon is a lot of outreach to potential customers or prospects on the business side. So I get to be in the weeds coding, but also I get to be on the side meeting new people every day, which Noble Reach has definitely open the doors for a lot of those skills that I use every day. Some of the speakers that Noble REACH has brought in, giving their expertise on how to cross that bridge, we're using currently on one of our Phase 2 SBIRs under NASA and actually commercializing one of the products. So I would say that's one of the hugest areas of impact, I would say, that has been very applicable. I think Noble REACH is an experience that makes you want to add a lot more value to impact a lot more people as the future innovators of America. I'm Liam Murray, and I'm a part of the Mission Generation.