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Stellantis, Archer move eVTOL partnership from ‘concept phase’ to ‘execution phase’

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With construction now well underway on the first high-volume eVTOL aircraft manufacturing facility located on an approximately 100-acre campus in Covington, Georgia, Stellantis recently increased its strategic shareholding through a series of purchases of Archer stock in the open market. Earlier post.)

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

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Louis , Mo.

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DOE to provide up to $450M for design and commercialization of small modular nuclear reactors

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Through cost-share agreements with private industry, DOE will solicit proposals for promising SMR projects that have the potential to be licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and achieve commercial operation by 2022.

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DOE awards Nikola $1.7M to advance fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA) development

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The joint grant was funded by the US Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Transportation Office under the recently announced FY19 Commercial Trucks and Off-Road Applications FOA. Sanjeev Mukerjee and Georgia Institute of Technology Prof. Sanjeev Mukerjee and Georgia Institute of Technology Prof.

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The New, New Transistor

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All of them have remarkable attributes, as well as fundamental weaknesses that have so far precluded commercial success. Alan Doolittle , a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech. This is a new concept in semiconductor devices.” Particularly the on-resistance of this thing, which is ridiculously good.”

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DOE awards $15M to ASU-led Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership; data for scale-up of algal fuels

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By making high quality testbed capabilities available to researchers and technology developers, they will allow rapid testing of novel concepts at scale and greatly accelerate commercialization. Testbed facilities for the partnership are physically located in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Ohio and Georgia.

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System Sniffs Out Trojans in Electromagnetic Emissions

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Is that a warplane or a commercial airliner? At the DARPA event, Keromytis showed the results of a test in which a trojan was inserted in the FPGA's firmware that would result in the neural network misidentifying an image of an Iranian fighter jet as a commercial aircraft. Mistaking one for the other has had truly tragic consequences.

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