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UPS to invest more than additional $90M in natural gas vehicles and infrastructure; 6 new CNG stations, 440 vehicles

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Louisville, Ky.; UPS currently operates 31 CNG fueling stations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, and West Virginia and runs CNG vehicles in 38 states in the U.S. The six new CNG stations will be built in Ontario, Calif.;

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NIST awards $7.4M in grants for additive manufacturing research

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University of Louisville, and 23 others. A team led by the University of Louisville will develop and refine a “layerwise certification standard” for additive manufacturing. NAAMII: Holistic Approach to Solving Measurement Science Challenges in Additive Manufacturing.

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NSF awarding $81M to 16 sites for new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)

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Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor, Georgia Institute of Technology with partners North Carolina A&T State University and University of North Carolina-Greensboro, PI: Oliver Brand. The Kentucky Multi-scale Manufacturing and Nano Integration Node, University of Louisville with partner University of Kentucky, PI: Kevin Walsh.

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

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Louisville, Colo. Catalyst Leaching Resistance for the Oxidative Production of Biobased Chemicals, $335,000 Forge Nano, Louisville, Colo. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Computer Programs for Analysis of Thermally Reactive Tracer Tests in Geothermal Reservoirs, $150,000 Geothermal Scientific Inc., Tustin, Calif.

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Video Friday: Robo Chameleon

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DARPA SubT Finals – September 21-23, 2021 – Louisville, KY, USA WeRobot 2021 – September 23-25, 2021 – Coral Gables, FL, USA IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event] ROSCon 2021 – October 21-23, 2021 – New Orleans, LA, USA. The participation in this MOOC is free.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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Deep below the Louisville, Ky., By the time teams reached the SubT Final Event in the Louisville Mega Cavern, the focus was on autonomy rather than communications. and Team CSIRO Data61—consisting of CSIRO’s Data61; Emesent; and Georgia Tech. zoo lies a network of enormous caverns carved out of limestone. The caverns are dark.

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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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Georgia Power. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. Southern Company: Georgia Power. Southern Company: Georgia Power. Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA). Eversource Energy. Florida Power and Light Company. General Motors. Hawaiian Electric. Hawai`i Electric Light. Maui Electric. PNM Resources.

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