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ARPA-E to award $27M for advanced nuclear reactor systems operational technology: GEMINA

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The GE Research team aims to reduce operations and maintenance (O&M) costs by moving from a time- to condition-based predictive maintenance framework, using GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300 boiling water reactor as the reference design. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: High-Fidelity Digital Twins for BWRX-300 Critical Systems - $ 1,787,065.

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NIST: Blockchain provides security, traceability for smart manufacturing; digital thread

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Because blockchain gives us both capabilities, we can build trustworthiness into digital manufacturing networks. The goal of this reference model is to secure the digital thread for smart manufacturing while enhancing collaboration and establishing trust between production partners. —Sylvere Krima. Lockheed Martin Corp.,

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Toyota Research Institute displays Gen 2 autonomous test vehicle; machine vision and machine learning

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Chauffeur refers to the always deployed, fully autonomous system classified by SAE as unrestricted Level 5 autonomy and Level 4 restricted and geo-fenced operation. The goal: to increase dialogue and build a community around the topics of mobility, data science, artificial intelligence and robotics.

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EVmatch Installs EV Chargers At Multi-Family Properties, And They Could Be Available To You

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roads within a decade, and that was projected before California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts called to ban gas car sales by 2035. Most of these buildings were designed (and built) long before EVs hit the mainstream. At current growth rates, there will be more than 30 million electric vehicles (EVs) on U.S.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. CloudLab will be a facility where researchers can build their own clouds and experiment with new ideas with complete control, visibility and scientific fidelity.

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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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NASA refers to this time period as N+3, representing technology three generations more advanced than what is in service today. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., Under the new contract, the team will develop the technologies identified during the first study and build a model for testing.

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LLNL/MIT team creates ultralight, ultrastiff metamaterials; possible applications for automotive and aerospace

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Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed materials with the same weight and density as aerogel (“frozen smoke”) but with 10,000 times more stiffness using additive micro-manufacturing processes. Source: LLNL Click to enlarge. —Chris Spadaccini.

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