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UPS to add more than 6,000 natural gas trucks 2020-2022; $450M investment

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As of October 2019, UPS has agreed to purchase 230 million gallon equivalents of RNG over the next seven years, making the company the largest consumer of RNG in the transportation industry. Houston, Texas, and Cleveland, Ohio. UPS CNG Fueling Station.

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NASA and Virgin Orbit 3D print, test rocket combustion chamber

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The company partnered with NASA experts in combustion and additive manufacturing (3D printing) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; and Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Credits: NASA/Virgin Orbit.

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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. Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Madison, Wis.

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Companies Vie to Build NASA’s Next Communications Network

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It’s an ambitious wish list,” says Eli Naffah , Communications Services Project Manager at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. We’re looking to have industry tell us, based on their capabilities and their business interests, what they would like to provide to us as a service that they would provide to others broadly.”.