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U.S. Senate Confirms Moure-Eraso as Chairman of Chemical Safety Board
By Karen Angelo
University of Massachusetts Lowell
June 24, 2010
Last July, UMass Lowell bought the former DoubleTree Hotel from the Procaccianti Group of Providence for $15 million and promptly changed the name to the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.
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UMass Lowell Launches Construction of $80M Tech Center
By Christopher Scott
Lowell Sun
June 09, 2010
Last July, UMass Lowell bought the former DoubleTree Hotel from the Procaccianti Group of Providence for $15 million and promptly changed the name to the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.
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Aquamarine Power Officially Releases Oyster 2 Design
By Darius Snieckus
Recharge News
May 17, 2010
Scottish wave energy developer Aquamarine Power has formally unveiled the design of its Oyster 2 device.
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I.D. Systems and Garmin Team to Provide New Airport Safety Solution
MSNBC
May 17, 2010
I.D. Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:IDSY), a leading provider of wireless asset management technology, and Garmin International, Inc., a global leader in navigation and communication devices have entered into a distribution agreement to bring an innovative new airport safety product to the aviation industry.
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McGovern Impressed with Franklin Military Supply Company
By Ashley Studley
The Milford Daily News
May 11, 2010
U.S. Rep. James McGovern, D-3rd, toured a Franklin armor facility yesterday to celebrate its latest advancements in soldier protection and its successful job growth.
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Defense contractor starts up
By R.E. Spears III
Suffolk News-Herald
May 5, 2010
Local, state and federal officials joined a major defense-industry manufacturer on Monday to celebrate a cooperative effort that they expect will result in a $9.2 million investment in Suffolk and at least 200 new jobs.
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Ideal Aerosmith opens new GF facility
Grand Forks Herald
April 28, 2010
Ideal Aerosmith’s newest facility in Grand Forks has doubled the company’s local presence, a fact the management boasted Wednesday during an open house at its new building.
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Genoa Racing Team and Zyvex Performance Materials put CNT to the test on the track
JEC Composites
April 27, 2010
When Genoa Racing’s bright red No. 36 car spun and hit a guardrail during a March practice session at Sebring International Raceway, carbon nanotube adhesives had their first opportunity to demonstrate their usefulness in high performance automotive racing.
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A $63m Push to Retrofit Housing
By Andrew Ryan
Boston Globe
March 18, 2010
Mayor Thomas M. Menino will announce today what is being billed as the largest energy efficiency overhaul in public housing in the nation’s history, a sweeping initiative designed to save electricity, countless gallons of water, and millions of dollars.
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Atlanta Man Produces New Army Body Armor
Reported By: Denise Dillon | Edited By: Leigha Baugham
My Fox Atlanta
November 11, 2009
ATLANTA (MyFOX ATLANTA) - An Atlanta man is producing new body armor for military men and women and he says by design, it's harder, lighter in weight and can protect soldiers better.
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Making it in Lowell
By David Pevear
The Lowell Sun
October 11, 2009
Manufacturing isn't dead in the Mill City, even if thousands of jobs have been lost since the 1980s. Inside an old sewing-thread factory on Middlesex Street, across from a Wendy's drive-through, is the only production facility in the world still spinning out continuous filament boron fiber, a high-performance material needed for the F-15 fighter jet and Predator unmanned aircraft.
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Energy executives offer ideas on stimulus
By Erin Ailworth
The Boston Globe
September 23, 2009
Executives from two local clean energy companies say federal stimulus money will help them create about 2,000 jobs across the country, though few in Massachusetts. First Wind, a wind energy developer based in Newton, and Ameresco, a Framingham company that oversees energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, participated in yesterday’s roundtable session, during which company representatives also told federal officials how the stimulus program for clean energy could be improved.
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UMass Lowell Could Get $4M for Nanotech
NanotechWire
September 22, 2009
A cutting-edge research project at UMass Lowell that uses nanotechnology to develop sensors that can help soldiers detect lethal biological and chemical agents could be in line for a major boost in federal funding from an earmark secured by Sen. John Kerry in the newest defense spending bill.
Kerry and UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan announced yesterday that the Senate defense appropriations committee has approved $4 million in its 2010 budget for the research initiative.
That would be the largest federal subsidy the university has received for this nanotechnology research project since it began receiving federal funding fiscal 2007, thanks in large part to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, who made the research a priority.
The House earlier this year approved just $2 million for the project and must reconcile with the Senate.
"We're excited about it, particularly in light of the fact that we're going to break ground in the spring on our new emerging-technology building," Meehan said. "That $4 million will allow us to make an investment in the building and our research-and-development program."
The research now being done at UMass Lowell in coordination with the Army Research Laboratory in Hyattsville, Md., and the Natick Soldier Center is focused on developing two main types of sensors that could be used by soldiers on the battlefield.
One sensor, called the "nanocanary," would be able to detect unspecified biological and chemical threats, while the "nano-skin" detection system could be combined with the chem/bio sensor to detect structural or mechanical damage to body armor, vehicles and weapons. "Some of our chemical-agent sensors are very close," said professor Joey Mead, a plastics engineer and co-director of the Nanomanufacturing Center. "This $4 million will allow us to purchase the equipment and pay the researchers we need to make this an effective program and do it quicker and most cost-effectively."
Until his death, Kennedy had become a major supporter of the university's research efforts, visiting the campus in the fall of 2006, when he helped secure the first $2 million grant to get the project off the ground.
Since that time, UMass Lowell has received money every year, but the totals have declined, with $1.6 million in federal defense spending going toward the project in fiscal 2008 and $1 million in 2009.
"Traditionally, this was Senator Kennedy's funding request, but I think Senator Kerry is effectively carrying out Senator Kennedy's appropriations and his priorities," said Meehan, who also helped secure the first grant when he was a member of the House of Representatives.
"I've talked to members of this committee, and we will be working as hard as we can to advocate," Meehan said, adding that he believes Kerry and U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas "recognize that nanotech manufacturing will have a profound effect on the economy in our region and of the state."
The full U.S. Senate is expected to finish consideration of the defense spending bill by the end of month, and will then work with the House to agree on a funding number. Officials said nothing is guaranteed, but added that the Senate action is a positive sign.
Kerry credited UMass Lowell with "leading the nanotech revolution."
"Investments in basic research and development in the Merrimack Valley are more important than ever and I will continue working with Chancellor Meehan to ensure the University has the resources it needs to continue developing cutting edge technologies, especially those that help protect our troops," Kerry said in a statement.
UMass Lowell is on track to break ground on its new $70 million Emerging Technology and Innovation Center this spring. The university estimates that up to 300 jobs could be created in the regional economy over the next five years from the research-and-development work being done at the nanotech center.
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BBN gunshot detection tech nails $22.5M deal
By Brendan Lynch
Mass High Tech
August 13, 2009
BBN Technologies Corp. has landed $22.5 million from the U.S. Army for its Boomerang gunshot detection technology, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Framingham company lands $795M federal contract
By David Riley/Daily News staff
The MetroWest Daily News
June 22, 2009
FRAMINGHAM - A Framingham energy company has won a $795 million contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to build biomass facilities in Aiken, S.C., calling the job the largest-ever federal energy efficiency project.
Ameresco Inc., headquartered on Speen Street, largely hires people on-site for its projects, but the size of this one may mean new positions here, too, a company official said yesterday.
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Applied Thermal Sciences wins technology award
Sanford business honored at Defense Manufacturing Conference in Florida
Stanford News
March 12, 209
SANFORD — Applied Thermal Sciences (ATS) and its key partners have received the 2008 Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award, which is given by the Department of Defense Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel (JDMTP). The award was presented at the Defense Manufacturing Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Dec. 2, 2008. Applied Thermal Sciences, Inc. was honored for developing the unique capability of manufacturing large-scale LASer-welded corrugated-CORe (LASCOR) metallic sandwich panels, which are currently being implemented on the DDG 1000 class of guided-missile destroyer ships.
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Ocean Power Technologies and Lockheed Martin Announce Collaboration for Utility Wave Power Project
PR Newswire
January 26, 2008
MOORESTOWN, N.J. and PENNINGTON, N.J., Lockheed Martin and Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announced they have signed a letter of intent to collaborate in the development of a utility-scale wave power generation project in North America.Lockheed Martin and OPT intend to enter into an agreement under which OPT would provide its project and site development expertise, build the power take-off and control systems of the plant, and provide its proprietary PowerBuoy® technology. Lockheed Martin would provide construction, systems integration and deployment of the plant, as well as operations and maintenance services.
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Catching the Currents: Tidal Power
By Bryan Walsh
Time Magazine
January 14, 2009
Tidal power isn't for the faint-hearted, as Verdant Power CEO William Taylor knows from experience. The first time Taylor's company sank an experimental turbine into New York City's East River, in late 2006, the powerful tidal currents — they can run up to 6 m.p.h. (almost 10 km/h) on a good day — smashed the device's fiberglass blades. "It's all part of the mantra — learning by doing," says the 61-year-old. "The potential of tidal can be just enormous."
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Wave power startup tests Mass. waters
By Efrain Viscarolasaga
Mass High Tech
January 2, 2009
Wave power startup Resolute Marine Energy Inc. is expected this week to take its first step toward the commercialization of its energy converter as it drops a working test unit into the water two miles off Newburyport.
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Shrinking endowments force colleges to freeze hiring, seek federal support
By Brendan Lynch
Mass High Tech
December 19, 2008
During a recession that has wiped $8 billion from Harvard University’s $36.9 billion endowment in four months; local colleges say they aren’t necessarily relying on their endowments to fund research in 2009. University of Massachusetts Lowell chancellor Marty Meehan expects federal funding for research to increase next year.
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Buoy turns waves into electricity
The program aims to find renewable energy to power military bases
Honolulu Star Examiner
By Gregg K. Kakesako
November 17, 2008
It's described as a small yellow cylinder floating inside a 12-foot-diameter doughnut bobbing in the waves just a mile offshore from Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Base. But it's actually the latest phase of a wave energy research program to find renewable energy to power the country's shore-side military bases and reduce dependence on foreign oil. The program initially was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in 2001 and is being developed by Ocean Power Technologies, a New Jersey company.
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Navy Taps Buoy Power for Ocean Surveillance
Matter Network
By Scott Salyer
November 15, 2008
From big rubber electric eels to 17 terawatt super dams, wave/tidal power may be the most creative pool in renewables. The newest depth charge in the water wars is the PowerBuoy from Ocean Power Technologies. Their simple device uses the natural bobbing motion of these most favorite of seagull rest stops to drive a piston and generator setup.
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A Futuristic Energy Plan, 100 Years in the Making
New York Times
By Jim Dwyer
August 23, 2008
In the century to come, The New York World imagined 100 years ago, gyroscopic trains might travel at fantastic speed, there could be wireless phones in every pocket, and the world "may have aeroplanes winging the once inconquerable air".
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The future in site
The Worcester Telegram and Gazette
By Lisa Eckelbecker
July 31, 2008
NORTHBORO — Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA demanded that its newest research-and-development building, still under construction on Goddard Road, be energy-efficient. Then the French company went back and redesigned the building to be even more energy-efficient.
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Tuning in to trouble
The Boston Globe
By Ross Kerber
July 23, 2008
BBN Technologies of Cambridge has done plenty of military work in the past, but never has its equipment been so dear to individual soldiers as its newest gear. The technology firm yesterday said the Army has ordered 8,131 of its "Boomerang" shooter-detection systems for $74 million, by far its largest contract for the devices to date. The company has already deployed around 400 Boomerang systems in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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UDRI, AFRL plan new fuels research facility
By John Nolan, Staff Writer
May 20, 2008
DAYTON — A joint project between the University of Dayton Research Institute and the Air Force Research Laboratory to build and operate a plant to produce jet fuel from coal and biomass materials will create about 230 jobs, according to the university.
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Lowell scientist: Nanotechnology help needed
UMass-Lowell
March 12, 2008
WASHINGTON — A Lowell scientist and other top researchers warned Congress yesterday that new inventions using microscopic nanoparticles could plummet into the "valley of death." The analogy refers to the gap that often prevents lab-based developments from becoming mass-produced gadgets that promise to conserve energy, aid wartime soldiers and provide cures for disease. Making that leap is critical for the University of Massachusetts Lowell, home to one of the nation's few nanotechnology centers. The school is investing its future on the field and plans to break ground this year on an $80 million nanotechnology facility.
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Superior Graphite Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
WKDZ-FM Louisville
February 21, 2008
U. S. Senator Bunning was on hand for the ribbon cutting ceremony at Superior Graphite. The ribbon cutting commemorates the opening of a new ceramic armor production line.
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BBN Technologies awarded $73.8M Army contract
Boston Business Journal
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
BBN Technologies has received a $73.8 million contract from the U.S Army for its Boomerang shooter detection systems.
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