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Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767-300s for cargo network

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Amazon Air, which formed in 2016, currently operates a fleet of about 70 aircraft, including Boeing 737s and Boeing 767s. Last year, Amazon launched its first air hub at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany and new regional air operations at Lakeland Linder International Airport, John F.

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Texas Automated Vehicle Proving Ground Partnership forms; applying for national designation

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Cities and regions across Texas are partnering with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR), and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to form the Texas Automated Vehicle (AV) Proving Ground Partnership.

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ICCT paper assesses leading regional EV markets in US and policies behind them

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A new white paper from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) assesses which policy actions are behind the regional leading markets in the US for electric vehicles. The authors defined regions as the Midwest, Mountain, Northeast, South, and West, based on the US Census (2016). —Kwan et al.

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Alcoa to supply 3D-printed titanium parts for Airbus aircraft

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Alcoa expects to deliver the first additive manufactured parts to Airbus in mid-2016. Earlier post.) The Airbus agreement will draw on these capabilities as well as ATEP’s titanium ingot melting and billetizing, machining, finishing and inspection technologies.

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GE Aviation hits Farnborough at full throttle; $7.5B in R&D investments since 2010; ceramic matrix composites and 3D printing

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By year’s end, GE and CFM International (the 50/50 joint company of GE and Safran) will have more than 15,000 commercial engines on back order. From 2010 through 2016, GE Aviation’s R&D investments will surpass $7.5 Between 2015 and 2020, GE and its partner companies will deliver 10,000 large commercial engines.

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NSF awarding $81M to 16 sites for new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)

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Through a fiscal year 2016 competition, one of the newly awarded sites will be chosen to coordinate the facilities. Funding for the NNCI program is provided by all NSF directorates and the Office of International Science and Engineering. These 16 sites are located in 15 states and involve 27 universities across the nation.

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DOE to invest $16M in computational design of new materials for alt and renewable energy, electronics and other fields

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Chelikowsky, University of Texas, Austin. In addition, a new generation of machines is scheduled for deployment between 2016 and 2019 that will take peak performance as high as 200 petaflops. The new research projects will begin in Fiscal Year 2016. The Berkeley Lab team will be led by Steven G.

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