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

Green Car Congress

San Jose, Calif. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. San Jose, Calif. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif. SunPower, San Jose, Calif. Vitriflex Inc.,

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

The Truth About Cars

.& Location information was more accurate than a few years prior, given increasing civilian and corporate access to military-grade GPS information. & The first Guidestar test models in late 1994 were implemented in the San Jose, California area, distributed once again through Avis rental outlets.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

Green Car Congress

Georgia Institute of Technology; Idaho National Laboratory; Jet Propulsion National Laboratory; Lamar U.; Next Flex, the Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute (San Jose, CA). LanzaTech; Materia; SEVA; TowerJazz; Small: Able Industrial Products Inc.; Missouri U.