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

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Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Arlington, Texas Ionic liquids as novel lubricant additives for HVAC compressors for enhanced efficiency and durability, $150,000 Ingersoll Rand, Bloomington, Minn. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. IsoTherm Inc.,

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DARPA Ground X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program aims to break “more armor” paradigm for protection

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The trend of increasingly heavy, less mobile and more expensive combat platforms has limited soldiers’ and marines’ ability to rapidly deploy and maneuver in theater and accomplish their missions in varied and evolving threat environments. —Kevin Massey, DARPA program manager.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany. Understanding novel pathways for energy and carbon use in bacterial symbionts of gutless marine worms. University of Texas at Arlington. Microbial ecology and genomics of carbon-storing bacteria in rhizosphere soils. Dubilier, Nicole. Emerson, David. Pukkila, Patricia.