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Commercial Space Stations Approach Launch Phase

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Add to that autonomy and redundancy that so many mission-critical functions will demand, as well as high bandwidth communications required to return data and allow streaming and connectivity for visitors. The new station will be operating on fractions of such budgets, with Blue Origin awarded $130 million of a total $415.6

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DOE Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute awards ~$10M to 10 projects

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The institute received up to $70 million in federal funding from DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) that is matched by $70 million in private cost-share commitments from industry, consortium members, and partners. University of Louisville. University of California, Irvine.

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

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Louisville, Colo. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. El Centro, Calif.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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The integrated design, development, and production of highly complex systems, leveraging software, can speed ideas from the lab into commercial production, reduce costs, and shorten production lifecycles. Low-cost advanced composites are also needed to make the storage tanks for vehicles that run on hydrogen and natural gas.

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NAMII awarding $9M to 15 additive manufacturing projects

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million in matching cost share from the awarded project teams for total funding worth $19.3 CDI Corporation; Honeywell Aerospace; Pan Computing LLC; Penn State University; United Technologies Research Center; and the University of Louisville). Development of a Low-Cost Lens® Engine. Byrd Institute; TE Connectivity Ltd.;

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Ford Investing $550M to Retool SUV Plant to Produce Focus Small Car and EV

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To produce the vehicles, Ford is converting three truck and SUV plants to car plants—Michigan Assembly, Cuautitlan Assembly in Mexico, which begins building the new Fiesta subcompact early next year; and Louisville (Ky.) Assembly, which will be converted to produce small vehicles from Ford’s global Focus platform beginning in 2011.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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During past eight years the number of plug-in electric vehicle models has increased from one to more than 20, battery costs have decreased 70%, and the number of electric vehicle charging stations has increased from less than 500 in 2008 to more than 16,000 today—a 40-fold increase. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities.

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