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AVL Names Dan and Robin Nicholson as Winners of 11th Annual Gordon Millar Award

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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PLYMOUTH, Mich., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dan and Robin Nicholson have been named winners of the 11th annual SAE Foundation Gordon Millar Award.

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  • PLYMOUTH, Mich., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dan and Robin Nicholson have been named winners of the 11th annual SAE Foundation Gordon Millar Award.
  • "Dan and Robin Nicholson have demonstrated their unwavering support for the SAE Foundation and upheld its mission to provide students across the country with equitable and engaging STEM experiences."
  • Further, Dan Nicholson has dedicated his time over the past ten years as an SAE Foundation Committee and Trustee, serving as the Chairperson for six years.
  • We want to thank AVL and we hope to honor the memory of Gordan Millar with our ongoing service."

NASA Awards Contracts for NOAA Coronagraph Instrument Phase A Study

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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GREENBELT, Md., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected five firms for the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series (L1 Series) Coronagraph (COR) Phase A Study.

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  • GREENBELT, Md., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected five firms for the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series (L1 Series) Coronagraph (COR) Phase A Study.
  • The principal purpose of these contracts is to provide a definition-phase study of a L1 Series COR instrument.
  • The COR instrument will provide Coronal imagery of the Sun for detection and characterization of the Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejections.
  • NOAA funds, operates, and manages the mission and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the acquisition of the Phase A Formulation contracts.

Propane Industry Innovations Network, Investments Accelerate Pursuit of Net Zero

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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WASHINGTON, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The propane industry, through its nonprofit the Propane Education and Research Council (PERC), has announced its engagement with nearly a dozen universities, national and private laboratories, and businesses to drive clean energy innovation.

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  • "Propane is paving a wider path toward a net zero future today," said PERC President and CEO Tucker Perkins.
  • "The industry's research and roadmap make it clear that propane is paving a wider path toward a net zero future today," said PERC's President and CEO, Tucker Perkins.
  • "These investments address both efficiency and emissions challenges, a combination we don't always see in other energy solutions being discussed.
  • The journey to net zero is going to take an all of the above approach, and our industry, along with an amazing network of partners, is going to make a clean energy future possible."

Eaton’s Variable Valve Actuation Technologies Deliver Dramatic Emissions Reductions in Recent Tests

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230228006254/en/
    Eaton’s cylinder deactivation (CDA) and late intake valve closing (LIVC) have been proven to simultaneously reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2).
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    Testing measured fuel consumption and exhaust temperature, from which engine-out NOx and CO2 were determined.
  • During the evaluation, the standard valvetrain on an 11-liter diesel engine was replaced with Eaton’s variable valve actuation system able to deliver either CDA or LIVC functions.
  • “Emissions regulations are driving the adoption of variable valve actuation solutions by our global commercial vehicle customers,” said Fabiano Contarin, product director, Commercial Vehicle Valve Actuation, Eaton’s Vehicle Group.

SwRI celebrates 75th Annual Meeting

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Monday, February 20, 2023
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Southwest Research Institute’s Advisory Trustees, Board of Directors and special guests gathered at SwRI’s main campus in San Antonio to mark the Institute’s 75th Annual Meeting, featuring technical presentations highlighting several innovative research and development programs under way.

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  • Southwest Research Institute’s Advisory Trustees, Board of Directors and special guests gathered at SwRI’s main campus in San Antonio to mark the Institute’s 75th Annual Meeting, featuring technical presentations highlighting several innovative research and development programs under way.
  • “Last year marked the Institute’s 75th anniversary, and the Institute continues to be a strong and vibrant organization,” said SwRI President and CEO Adam L. Hamilton, P.E.
  • The SwRI Board of Directors reelected Institute executive officers and approved reelection of 13 vice presidents.
  • In addition, SwRI received 31 U.S. patent awards, filed 46 patent applications and submitted 39 invention disclosures.

Infinity AI raises $5M to build automated synthetic training data

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Thursday, December 15, 2022
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LOS ALTOS, Calif., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinity AI, a startup that generates automated synthetic training data, announced today a $5M seed round led by Matrix with participation from founders and operators from companies like Snorkel AI, Tesla, and Google. The funds will be used to bring the company's novel generative tools, which complement Infinity's existing self-serve API, to market.

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  • Enterprise data scientists spend over 80% of their time gathering, organizing, and labeling the training data they use.
  • Synthetic data - or data that is generated via simulation rather than collected by a sensor - leapfrogs the data collection and annotation steps.
  • Training on synthetic data has become an established best practice as major tech companies like Tesla , Amazon , and Microsoft all announced products by training on synthetic data.
  • As part of today's announcement, Infinity AI is launching the Infinity Marketplace , the world's largest open-source marketplace for synthetic datasets.

Planetary Scientist Dr. Alan Stern Announces Call for Mission Specialists for 2023 Titanic Expedition

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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NASSAU, Bahamas, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Earth's oceans remain the least explored and understood, yet most impactful ecosystems on the planet. With a longitudinal study of the Titanic, OceanGate Expeditions is working to change that. Planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern joined OceanGate Expeditions' 2022 Titanic Expedition as a Mission Specialist. Dr. Stern brought a unique set of qualifications to the Mission Specialist role: he has led NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt since its inception in 2001 and is scheduled to participate in a 2023 Virgin Galactic suborbital research mission. He is currently Chief Exploration Officer at World View and Associate Vice President, Space Sector at the Southwest Research Institute. Dr. Stern shared his perspectives on the parallels between exploration in space and our deep oceans after his experience diving to the Titanic with OceanGate Expeditions.

Key Points: 
  • Planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern joined OceanGate Expeditions' 2022 Titanic Expedition as a Mission Specialist.
  • Aspiring Mission Specialists interested in supporting the 2023 Titanic Expedition should contact OceanGate Expeditions for qualifications, availability, and additional details.
  • OceanGate Expeditions also recently announced the coffee table book, "Titanic Expedition: A Crewed Submersible Expedition to Explore the World's Most Famous Shipwreck."
  • Planetary Scientist, Dr. Alan Stern, shares the parallels between exploration in space and exploration of our deep oceans.

AFRL and SDA contracts total $1.5 million in new awards for Cognitive Space

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022
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HOUSTON, Nov. 8, 2022  /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The U.S. Air Force has extended Cognitive Space's contract under a new TACFI award to enhance the Cognitive Inference Tasking (CNTIENT®) product to include tasking predictive analytics with commercial satellite vendors. The $1.2 million contract builds on Cognitive Space's work to develop a tailored version of CNTIENT for AFRL to achieve ultimate responsiveness and optimized dynamic satellite scheduling via a cloud-based API. The award follows a $1.5 million U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research award that the company won in 2020 to integrate CNTIENT with commercial ground station providers in support of AFRL's Hybrid Architecture Demonstration (HAD) program.

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  • The $1.2 million contract builds on Cognitive Space's work to develop a tailored version of CNTIENT for AFRL to achieve ultimate responsiveness and optimized dynamic satellite scheduling via a cloud-based API.
  • "The TACFI award allows Cognitive Space to continue supporting AFRL's vitally important HAD program to help deliver commercial space data to the warfighter," said Guy de Carufel, the company's Founder and CEO.
  • The TACFI contract is the latest of several efforts Cognitive Space has been awarded to enhance the CNTIENT platform in support of AFRL's HAD program and GLUE platform.
  • Headquartered in Houston, Cognitive Space is the market leader in AI/ML-driven satellite mission operations.

Arcadis IBI Group Awarded Tri-State Traveler Information System Contract

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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TORONTO, Oct. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global design and technology firm, Arcadis IBI Group Inc. (Arcadis IBI or the Company),has been awarded a multi-year contract for its traveler information system, Travel-IQ , adding to a growing list of states, cities, provinces and countries currently leveraging Arcadis IBIs Software-as-a-Service solution.

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  • TORONTO, Oct. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global design and technology firm, Arcadis IBI Group Inc. (Arcadis IBI or the Company),has been awarded a multi-year contract for its traveler information system, Travel-IQ , adding to a growing list of states, cities, provinces and countries currently leveraging Arcadis IBIs Software-as-a-Service solution.
  • The SwRI and Arcadis IBI collaboration aims to enhance the traveler experience and real-time traveler communications to notify the public as quickly as possible with event information, travel times and weather.
  • In addition to the multi-year SaaS Tri-State contract, Arcadis IBI has also been awarded contract renewals in Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, New York and Southern California.
  • Arcadis IBIs traveler information technology has been a significant contributor to the firms Intelligence-sector portfolio for more than 11 years.

HII Wins US Air Force $76.7 Million Electronic Warfare Research and Analysis Task Order

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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
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MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced that its Mission Technologies division has been awarded a $76.7 million task order by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to perform research, analysis, test and evaluation that will support and inform USAF decisions related to electronic warfare (EW) and electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) capabilities development.

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  • MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced that its Mission Technologies division has been awarded a $76.7 million task order by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to perform research, analysis, test and evaluation that will support and inform USAF decisions related to electronic warfare (EW) and electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) capabilities development.
  • The award reinforces the USAFs confidence in our team, and we look forward to executing the contract.
  • The EMS superiority development task order was awarded under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Centers (DOD IAC) multiple-award contract (MAC) vehicle.
  • The USAF 774th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron, part of the USAF Installation Contracting Center, awards DOD IAC MAC task orders through a competitive process.