Jerry Petersen

Burns & McDonnell has entered into an agreement with BWX Technologies to continue helping with the development of the BWXT Advanced Nuclear Reactor, or BANR. Burns & McDonnell said Monday that its contributions to the effort will include development of the power cycle architecture, identification of critical components and site integration design. The latest agreement […] More

Draper Laboratory is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on an initiative that seeks to produce sensor devices using engineered microbes to complement conventional sensors for environmental monitoring. The initiative, called Tellus, seeks to determine the range of physical and chemical signals that microbe-based sensing devices can detect, the output signals such devices […] More

Autonomous surface vessel manufacturer Saronic has concluded a Series B funding round during which it raised $175 million, bringing the company’s total valuation to $1 billion. Saronic said Friday it will use the fresh funds to expand its domestic capabilities to perform research and development work on various autonomous technologies as well as to increase […] More

The Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs has approved the addition of IBM to the list of more than 30 partner institutions of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center. Hosted by Fermilab, SQMS is a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center that focuses on superconducting quantum systems, an area in which […] More

L3Harris Technologies is using digital engineering and Modular Open Systems Architecture to develop mission systems for the XM30 as part of Team Lynx, one of two contractor teams selected by the U.S. Army to develop its next-generation combat vehicle. L3Harris Technologies Chief Software Engineer Jeff VanDorp said in a statement Thursday that the MOSA implementation […] More

EchoStar Corporation has launched a lab that allows vendors to test and validate their open radio access network offerings. EchoStar said Monday that the facility, named the Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment, features a real field test setup and enables test and validation work using the company’s live commercial-grade cloud-native Open RAN network. […] More