In the past 20 years, the world has become significantly more complex, more unsettled and less predictable. The American military coined the acronym VUCA to describe this trend: "volatile", "uncertain", "complex" and "ambiguous". In this ...
IR imaging market shifting from military to civilian 13 Sep 2013 Military budget cuts and growing commercial markets drive change says analyst Yole Développement. Hot market: The global uncooled thermal camera business is set to ...
A team of six recent college graduates has come up with an innovative way to prevent functional finish chemistries from entering the environment by using tons of US Army textiles destined for landfills to make high end bags. Led by the ...
Tags: Military Textiles, High-End Bags
The US House of Representatives has approved a defence authorization bill that requires the Bangladesh-based readymade garment manufacturing units, who process the US military-branded garments (military exchanges), to comply with fire and ...
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Dr Sivalingam (Siva) Sivananthan, CEO & founder (in 1998) of EPIR Technologies Inc in Bolingbrook (a suburb of Chicago), IL, USA (which develops infrared sensor, biosensor and solar photovoltaic products), was honored at a White House ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, solar photovoltaic products, infrared sensor
USAA Life Insurance is expanding its Medicare Supplement Insurance with the addition of a low-premium choice, Plan N, for its members who qualify for Medicare with more options. The product will be made available to members in 30 states ...
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Mediware Information Systems, along with its partner Planned Systems International (PSI), has been chosen by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to provide blood donor and transfusion software validation services. As per the terms of this ...
Aviation biofuel's newly minted ability to generate tradable US renewables credits, known as RINs, may be key to the industry's economics, according to market watchers. "The availability of RINs is a critical bridge to commercial ...
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Samsung has had its security-enhanced smartphones and tablets approved for use by the U.S. military. The U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) says it is now happy to use Samsung Android devices in the field after its Defence Information ...
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Researchers the Georgia Institute of Technology have devised a big data algorithm for customising the difficulty of video games. The computational model predicts player's in-game performance, using big data to devise a level of difficulty ...
Tags: Computer Products, webgame, software
In this modern era, technology has proved to be a boon for all industries. Several instruments are being used for different purposes. One such useful device is inclinometer which is used to measure the slope and elevation of an object with ...
Biodiesel producer sources applauded the US Environmental Protection Agency Monday after the EPA finalized its rule to approve camelina oil as a low-carbon feedstock under the Renewable Fuel Standard. "This decision adds to the growing ...
Tags: EPA, Camelina Oil, RFS, fuel stocks
The President, in his annual State of the Union speech to a joint session of the US Congress, said the United States is facing a “rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks.” “We know hackers steal people's identities and ...
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Aleddra LED Lighting, a business unit of Lightel Technologies, Inc., today announces its EasiRetrofit™ LED T8 lamp has been successfully deployed for a commercial parking lighting project and help achieving 13-month payback for the ...
Tags: Aleddra LED Lighting, Lightel Technologies, EasiRetrofit, LED T8 lamp
GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
Tags: GaAs, solar material maker, Alta Devices, solar cells, lightweight