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UAW Expands Strike Again, Targeting GM's Largest Plant

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Just one day after the UAW went on strike at Stellantis’ pickup factory in Sterling Heights , roughly 5,000 union members walked off the line at General Motors’ plant in Arlington, Texas. Arlington Assembly is responsible for profitable models like the Chevrolet Tahoe, Chevy Suburban, GMC Yukon, and Cadillac Escalade.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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DOE received more than 160 applications for 2019 TCF funding, with project teams engaging more than 90 different partners across multiple diverse disciplines. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif. Louis , Mo.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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My desire was to join the Air Force and help build technologies to secure the nation," he says. "I in 1997, he moved east to manage an aerodynamics and hypersonics research program at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research , in Arlington, Va. billion program launched in 2019 to remake the U.S. After getting his Ph.D.

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Toyota Connected’s ‘Cabin Awareness’ concept uses new tech to detect occupants

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The autonomous-vehicle company is testing the technology in its fleet of Toyota Sienna AutonoMaaS (Autonomous Mobility as a Service) ( earlier post ) minivans at its headquarters in Michigan and will soon begin testing in public AV deployments in Arlington, Texas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, with additional deployments coming in late 2022.

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