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In this episode, we are joined by Kyle Beagle, the Command Director of the Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) for the National Guard Bureau. With over 14 years of federal service, Mr. Beagle brings a wealth of experience and insights into the world of small business acquisition within the Department of Defense (DoD). As the chief advisor on all small business-related matters for the National Guard, Kyle is responsible for overseeing small business acquisition policies, strategic initiatives, outreach efforts, and subcontracting programs that ensure opportunities for small businesses in the defense sector. During the conversation, Kyle shares his career journey, starting from his work with various DoD commands, including the Marine Corps Systems Command, Naval Research Lab, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and more. He discusses his role in shaping acquisition strategies that support small business growth and highlights the importance of small business partnerships in strengthening national defense capabilities. Kyle also delves into his extensive qualifications as a Level III certified Contracting professional and a Level II certified program manager within the DoD Acquisition Professional Community.  This episode offers invaluable insights for small business owners looking to engage with the National Guard and the broader defense landscape. Kyle's expertise and dedication to fostering strong partnerships between small businesses and the federal government provide a roadmap for success in the competitive world of government contracting. Tune in to learn more about the critical role small businesses play in supporting our nation's security and how the National Guard is opening doors for them to thrive. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheNationalGuard  LinkedIn account: linkedin.com/in/kylejb2456                Link to your company: https://www.nationalguard.mil/ 

As private and government interest in nuclear fusion technology grows, an array of startups have arisen to take on the challenge, each with their own unique approach. Among them: LaserFusionX. Today on Faster, Please!—The Podcast, I talk with CEO Stephen Obenschain about the viability of fusion energy, and what sets his approach apart.Obenschain is the president of LaserFusionX. He was formerly head of the Plasma Physics Division branch at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.In This Episode* Viability of commercial fusion (0:58)* The LaserFusionX approach (7:54)* Funding the project (10:28)* The vision (12:52)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversationViability of commercial fusion (0:58)Pethokoukis: Steve, welcome to the podcast.Obenschain: Okay, I'm glad to talk with you. I understand you're very interested in high-tech future power sources, not so high tech right now are windmills…Well, I guess they're trying to make those more high tech, as well. I recall that when the Energy Department, the National Ignition Laboratory [NIF], they had the—I guess that's over about maybe 15 months ago—and they said they had achieved a net gain nuclear fusion, using lasers, and the energy secretary made an announcement and it was a big deal because we had never done that before by any means. But I remember very specifically people were saying, “Listen, it's a great achievement that we've done this, but using lasers is not a path to creating a commercial nuclear reactor.” I remember that seemed to be on the news all the time. But yet you are running a company that wants to use lasers to create a commercial fusion reactor. One, did I get that right, and what are you doing to get lasers to be able to do that?I don't know why people would come to that conclusion. I think we are competitive with the other approaches, which is magnetic fusion, where you use magnetic fields to confine a plasma and get to fusion temperatures. The federal government has supported laser fusion since about 1972, starting with the AEC [Atomic Energy Commission]. Originally it was an energy program, but it has migrated to being in support stockpiled stewardship because, with laser fusion, you can reach physics parameters similar to what occur in thermonuclear weapons.Yeah. So that facility is about nuclear weapons testing research, not creating a reactor—a fusion reactor.Yeah. All that being said, it does advance the physics of laser fusion energy, and what the National Ignition Facility did is got so-called ignition, where the fuel started a self-sustaining reaction where it was heating itself and increasing the amount of fusion energy. However, the gain was about three, and one of the reasons for that is they use so-called indirect drive, where the laser comes in, heats a small gold can, and the X-rays from that then that drive the pellet implosion, which means you lose about a factor of five in the efficiency. So it's limited gain you get that way.Your way is different. It sort of cuts out the middleman.Okay. The better way to go—which, we're not the only ones to do this—is direct drive, where the laser uniformly illuminates the target at the time that Livermore got started with indirect drive, we didn't have the technologies to uniformly illuminate a pellet. First at NRL [Naval Research Laboratories], and then later at University of Rochester in Japan, they developed techniques to uniformly illuminate the pellets. The second thing we're doing is using the argon fluoride laser. The argon fluoride laser has been used in lithography for many years because it's deep UV.The unique thing we have been trying to do—this was when I was supervising the program at the Naval Research Laboratory—was to take it up to high energy. We started years ago with a similar Krypton fluoride laser, built the largest operating target shooter with that technology, demonstrated the high repetition rate operation that you need for energy and NIF will shoot a few times a day—you need five to 10 shots per second to do a power plant—demonstrated that on a krypton fluoride laser, and, more recently, we switched to the focus to argon fluoride, which is deeper UV and more efficient than the Krypton  fluoride. And that basically—at NRL when I was supervising it—reached the energy record for that technology. But we've got a long ways to go to get it to the high energy needed for a power plant.Now, what the immediate goal of my company is to get the funds and to build a beam line of argon fluoride that would have the energy and performance needed for a power plant. One of the advantages to laser fusion: you want have a situation where I'm building more than one of something, so for an implosion facility, you have many beam lines, so you build one and then you have the advantage of building more, and a learning curve as you go toward a power plant. We developed a phase program where first we build the beamline, then we build a NIF-like implosion facility only operating with the argon fluoride, demonstrate the high gain—which is a hundred plus for a power plant—and then, after doing that, do the physics in parallel, develop the other technology you need, like low-cost targets. (They can't be expensive. The NIF targets are probably tens of thousands. We can't spend that.) We're going 10 shots per second. All the technologies required for a pilot power plant build a pilot power plant, which, in my view could be maybe 400 megawatts electricity. However, its main function would be to develop the procedures, test the components, and so forth for the follow-on, mass-produced power plants. So one, when you build a pilot power plant, you want to operate it for a few years to get the kinks out before going to mass production. The vision is to go from the beginning of that to the end in about 16 years.So the challenges are you have to generate enough heat, and you have to be able to do this over, and over, and over again.Right. That's right. It has to be high reliability. For an implosion facility, a hundred-thousand-shot reliability is okay. For a power plant, it's got to be in the billion-shot class.And at this point, the reason you think this is doable is what?I think we have confidence in the pellet designs. I have a lot, and I have colleagues that have a lot of experience with building large excimer systems: KrF [Krypton Fluoride Excimer Laser], ArF [Argon Fluoride Excimer Laser]…Those are lasers?Yes. And we have credible conceptual designs for the facility.There's a lot of companies right now, and startups, with different approaches. I would assume you think this is the most viable approach, or has some other advantages over some of the other things we're seeing with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which gets mentioned a lot, which is using a different approach. So is the advantage you think it's easier to get to a reactor? What are the advantages of this path?The LaserFusionX approach (7:54)Well, for one, it's different. It's different challenges from the Commonwealth Fusion Systems. There is overlap, and there should be collaboration. For example, you have to, theirs is also deuterium-tritium. However, the physics challenges are different. I think we're farther along in laser fusion to be able—it's a simpler situation than you have. It's very complex interactions in tokamak, and you also have things… have you ever heard of a disruption? Basically it's where all of the magnetic energy all of a sudden goes to the wall, and if you have something like what Commonwealth Fusion Systems—they've got to be careful they don't get that. If they do, it would blow a hole in the wall. We don't have that problem with laser fusion. I think we're further along in understanding the physics. Actually, the National Ignition Facility is ahead of the highest fusion gains they've gotten in facilities. I think that they're somewhere just below one or so with the jet. They're up at one and a half. To what extent are the challenges of physics and science, and to what extent are the challenges engineering?Well, the physics has to guide the precision you have on the laser. And I won't say we're 100 percent done in the physics, but we're far enough along to say, okay. That's one reason where I envision building an implosion facility before the pilot power plant so we can test the codes and get all the kinks out of that. Nothing's easy. You have to get the cost of the targets down. The laser, okay, we've demonstrated, for example, at NRL—And NRL is…?Naval Research Laboratory.Naval Research Lab, right.A hundred-shot operation of the KrF laser. We use spark gap for that. We need to go to solid state pulse power, got up to 10 million shots. We need to get from there to a billion shots. And some of that is just simply improving the components. It's straightforward, but you've got to put time into it. I think you need really smart people doing this, that are creative—not too creative, but where you need to be creative, you are creative, and I think if, basically, if you can get the support, for example, to build (a beam line is somewhere around a hundred million dollars). To build the implosion facility and pilot power plant, you're getting into the billion shot, billion dollar class and you have to get those resources and be sure enough that, okay, if the investors put this money in, they're going to get a return on it.Funding the project (10:28)I think people who are investing in this sector, I would assume they may be more familiar with some of the other approaches, so what is the level of investor interest and what is the level of Department of Energy interest?Well, one of the challenges is that, historically, the Department of Energy has put money into two pots. One, laser fusion for stockpile stewardship, and magnetic fusion for energy. That's starting to change, but they don't have a lot of money involved yet, to put money into laser fusion or inertial fusion energy. And one of my challenges is not that the companies are aware of magnetic fusion, they don't understand the challenges of that, or laser fusion, or what's a good idea and a bad idea. And like Commonwealth Fusion systems I think has a good technical basis. If you go the next one down to Helion Energy, they're claiming they can burn helium three made from deuterium interactions, which violates textbook physics, so I'm very… I wonder about that.Would it surprise you, at the end of the day, that there are multiple paths to a commercial fusion reactor?Oh no. I think there are multiple paths to getting to where I get fusion burn, and maybe I make electricity. I think ultimately the real challenge for us is: Can we go reasonably fast? At 16 years, I'm considered somewhat slower than others. The ones that are saying five years I think are delusional. The ones that are saying 50 years, or say never, I don't think understand that yeah, we're pretty far along in this.How big, or rather, how small, theoretically, could one of these reactors be? I know there's been talk about using nuclear fusion as a way to provide power for these new data centers that gobble up so much power that they're using AI for. Would this be the kind of reactor that would power a city power, a big factory power, a data center, all of the above?I think you can get down, at least with our approach, to a couple hundred megawatts. However, my own vision is you're probably better off having power stations for some of the nuclear—with these, the big nuclear plants have multiple reactors at one place, and you'd get the advantage, for example, in our case, to just simply have one target factory and so forth. I don't think we're going to be able to compete. I don't know how small modular reactors go—a hundred megawatts or so, I would guess, and probably can't get down there, but one of my own goals is to get the size down as much as possible, but I think we're talking about hundreds of megawatts. The vision (12:52)What's the big vision? Why are you doing this?Why am I doing it?Yeah, what's the vision? What drives you and where do you think this goes over the next two decades?I may have the best route to get there. If I thought one of these other ones were going to get there, no problem… but all of us have challenges, and I think we can get there. I think from a standing start. As far as getting investment, I've just had pre-seed money, I don't have the big bucks yet. I've brought on people that are more experienced than me at extracting money from VCs and investors. (I was told you know a few billionaires.) Basically, for me, I need a few tens of millions to get started—like I'd say, about a hundred million to build the beamline. And then after that… actually I have a conference call on Friday with a representative of the investment bank industry that is very dubious about fusion.I mean, you can understand the skepticism, as a technology. What do they say? “It's the future of energy and always will be.”But the really good thing, I think, about the private investment is that the public investment has been too much focus on big machines which will give you physics, but have pretty much zero chance of being a direct path to fusion energy. You know, $25 billion and I make 500 megawatts thermal, occasionally, and we show that to a power plant executive, they're going to say, “You're kidding me.” We hope to get down cost for the power plants in the few-billion-dollar range.Faster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

太陽附近是發生啥物代誌？為著欲揣出這个答案，NASA 發射 Parker 機器人太陽探測器 (PSP) ，飛到比進前閣較倚太陽 ê 所在 做調查。PSP ê 循環 軌道，予伊每幾若個月就會接近太陽 一擺。這个縮時攝影影片 是舊年 PSP 第 16 擺倚近太陽 ê 時陣翕--的。這是 PSP 飛到水星軌道內底，用目尾 ùi 太陽閘仔後壁 看出去 ê 景色。PSP ê 闊幅相機 (WISPR) 翕了超過 11 工 ê 影像，毋過 tī 遮 去予數位技術 壓縮做 1 分鐘 ê 影片。綴 PSP 踅太陽行，咱會當 tī 影片內底看著咧跳舞 ê 日冕 kah 日冕物質噴射。背景閣有 飛過 ê 恆星、行星、kah 銀河系 ê 中央盤。PSP 發現講，太陽的厝邊區 實在是有夠複雜--ê，甚至 太陽磁場 會 tī 足短 ê 時間內底 翻倒反。 ——— 這是 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day ê 台語文 podcast 原文版：https://apod.nasa.gov/ 台文版：https://apod.tw/ 今仔日 ê 文章： https://apod.tw/daily/20240219/ 影片來源：NASA, JHUAPL, Naval Research Lab, Parker Solar Probe 資料處理：Avi Solomon; h/t: Richard Petarius III 音樂：Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Second Movement 音樂來源：Wikimedia Commons 聲優：阿錕 翻譯：An-Li Tsai (NSYSU) 原文：https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240219.html Powered by Firstory Hosting

Lunar tech startup Venturi Astrolab of California announced its new lineup of customers for its upcoming lunar rover mission. Researchers at The Naval Research Lab have discovered solar-wind hydrogen in lunar samples. The UK' Space Clusters Infrastructure Fund has awarded more than £47 million for 12 space research and development infrastructure projects, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is US Space Policy Analyst, Brendan Curry.  Selected Reading Venturi Astrolab's rovers will deploy $160M worth of payloads on the moon- TechCrunch Hydrogen detected in lunar samples, points to resource availability for space exploration NASA One Step Closer to Fueling Space Missions with Plutonium-238 £47 million investment to supercharge space infrastructure across the UK North Korea's space launch program and long-range missile projects- Reuters The Starliner-1 mission Global temperature exceeds 2°C above pre-industrial average on 17 November Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do- Vice 10 Tech Trends That Will Impact the Satellite Industry in 2024 Space Companies Turn To Marketing To Advance Important Business Strategies Exclusive: 'Act now' to keep US competitive in space race, senators say Thanksgiving Celebrations in Space T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © 2023 N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Terry Ford was born September 1980 on an Air Force Base in North Carolina. His dad was a parachute rigger in the US Navy and shortly after Terry was born received orders to Puerto Rico where the Ford family lived for the next 3 years. After that Terry's father took orders to NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, VA where they would remain for the next 27 years, a feat almost unheard of in the Navy. That fact made Terry one of those rare Navy brats that got to live in the same house for essentially his whole life growing up. The only moving around they did was from an apartment that they moved into when they relocated from Puerto Rico to Virginia Beach. Terry didn't quite know what he wanted to do with his life but ultimately decided to enlist in the Navy in March of 2003 as a Cryptologic Technician (Maintenance). He went to basic training in Great Lakes, IL followed by “A” school at Cory Station in Pensacola, FL. From there he received orders to Naval Security Group Detachment Potomac at the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC. That tour ended when the command was decommissioned in 2005. At that time, Terry chose to screen for an assignment to Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) and was subsequently selected. After 4 ½ years of service with DEVGRU, Terry chose not to re-enlist and jumped over to the contracting world and he has worked in various roles in IT. He presently works as a contactor for Illuminate in a position for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Terry's family resides in Tampa, FL with his wife and twin daughters.

Produced by KSQD90.7FM “Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 5:00pm (PDT)   Warren Hern develops a deep and unsettling comparison between metastatic cancer and the expanding footprint of humanity, as we consume and degrade the environment that sustains us. - John W. Terborgh, Duke University What is Homo Ecophagus? It is a new term meaning, “The man who devours the ecosystem.” Over the course of its evolution, humans have evolved cultures and adaptations that have now become malignant and that the human species, at the global level, has all the major characteristics of a malignant neoplasm – converting all plant, animal, organic, and inorganic material into human biomass or its adaptive, adjuncts and support systems.  This process is incompatible with continued survival of the human species and most other species on the planet. Interview Guest: Warren M. Hern, MD, MPH, PHD, is a practicing physician in Boulder, Colorado, where he is also on the anthropology faculty at the University of Colorado. He holds a Master of Public Health degree and a PhD in epidemiology. His clinical and epidemiologic research has been published widely in scientific and medical journals, including BioScience and Population Studies. His public advocacy of reproductive rights has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, CBS' 60 Minutes, and other prominent venues. He has conducted decades of research in fertility and population trends based in the Peruvian Amazon. Dr. Hern created the new term “Homo Ecophagus” to describe human-kind's devastation to the planet.   Guest Cohost: Mike Clancy holds degrees in Oceanography and Meteorology and has worked at the Science Applications International Corporation, the Naval Research Lab, and the U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) in Monterey. Michael has authored over 100 publications in meteorology, oceanography and information technology, and received over 50 professional awards, including the Navy's highest civilian award, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award, signed by the Secretary of the Navy.  Mr. Clancy is a frequent lecturer on climate change and currently serves as Chair of the Monterey County Chapter of the Citizens' Climate Lobby.

Discover how Kevin Heath (Founder of Space Crystals and CEO of Waypoint 2 Space) is creating the option to immortalize you, why he said to "beware of the squirrel", and when his "10-second rule" has successfully helped him deal with crisis (17 minute episode). CEO BLINDSPOTS® PODCAST GUEST: Kevin Heath, Founder of Space Crystals LLC and CEO of Waypoint 2 Space. Mr. Heath has dedicated the past twenty years to technology and aerospace, leading management and business development teams for startups, mid-size, and Fortune-500 companies. His extensive resume includes experience in Commercial Human Spaceflight solutions – launch vehicles, spacecraft, and satellites. He had the unique experience of being a part of the SpaceShipOne program, which made the very first commercial Astronaut. He worked on the Dream Chaser Space Plane program as a replacement for the Shuttle for NASA. Mr. Heath also conceptualized and helped bring to fruition the very first space satellite mission for the Operationally Responsive Space office, making history for building and launching a satellite in four short months. He has been a part of global satellite constellation studies for the Missile Defense Agency and DARPA, worked with Air Force Research Lab, Naval Research Lab, Space and Mission Command, and other military organizations to further space technologies. Mr. Heath attended the University of Phoenix, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Business Management and a Masters in Business Administration in Technology Management. He is the CEO of Waypoint 2 Space – the only existing U.S.-based company to have FAA Safety Approval for four commercial space training programs including Sub-Orbital, Orbital, and Payload Specialist. For more information about Kevin and Space Crystals LLC, visit https://myspacecrystals.com/ To ask questions about this episode (or one of the 175+ other CEO Blindspots® Podcast episodes), send an email to birgit@ceoblindspots.com CEO Blindspots® Podcast Host: Birgit Kamps. Birgit was speaking five languages by the age of 10, and lived in five countries with her Dutch parents prior to becoming an American citizen. Birgit's professional experience includes starting and selling an “Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Company” and a “Best Company to Work for in Texas”, and serving as a Board Member with various companies. In addition, Birgit is the President of Hire Universe LLC, and the host of the CEO Blindspots® Podcast which was recognized by Spotify for having the “biggest listener growth” in the USA by 733%;https://www.ceoblindspots.com/

Join us in The BreakLine Arena as we share engaging conversations from our BreakLine community in celebration of this most recent Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month.Rocky Takapu was raised by immigrants from Tonga (a subset of Polynesian islands in the South Pacific) looking for greater opportunities in America, Rocky was born in Oakland, California as a first generation Tongan-American. Growing up in a rough environment and then falling into the street life, Rocky's family moved him to stay in Hawaii with his uncle for the latter part of his teenage years. He was able to acquire discipline and was shown the opportunities that were available through the United States Air Force. From there, he was able to leverage his G.I. Bill for his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering and later was awarded the Science Mathematics and Research Transformation (SMART) Fellowship through the DoD. He then went out to become a civilian research for DoD and civilian laboratories such as Naval Research Lab and Draper Labs. Looking for a change, Rocky was introduced to Breakline where he was able to break into tech with Facebook. Rocky is now an Infrastructure TPM at Stripe. Rocky is passionate about STEM and providing extra seats at the table for the AAPI community and other underrepresented minorities by advocating communities such as BreakLine, Club Lab Rascals, and PIEFEST. He has an amazing wife Tee and two rambunctious boys, Pulileka and Viliami.If you like what you've heard, please subscribe, follow, and rate our show! To learn more about BreakLine Education, check us out at breakline.org.

飛過金星 有一个探索內部太陽圈 kah 日冕 ê 任務 tī 2020 年 7 月 11 ê 時陣，用 NASA Parker 太陽探測儀 面頂 ê 闊幅 kha-mé-lah 翕著這張 遮爾媠 ê 景色。這是金星 tī 離咱 1 萬 2 千 4 百公里遠 ê 所在翕 ê 景色。這个太空船當咧進行七擺 飛過太陽系內行星 重力輔助飛行 ê 第三擺。重力輔助飛行是利用倚近金星 ê 方式，改變探測船 ê 運行軌道，予伊上尾會當 tī 2020 年尾行到離太陽表面 6 百萬公里近 ê 所在。予人感覺趣味 ê 是，側面 kha-mé-lah 敢若是 ùi 雲內底偷偷仔看，煞予咱看著一个烏影。彼搭 to̍h tī 金星表面 上大 ê 高原 Aphrodite Terra。行星外沿 ê 光邊，應該是 tī 頂層大氣受著激發 ê 酸素原子重新組合做分子，才發出 ê 夜光。Tī 這張影像內底 ê 光-sûn kah 抓痕，應該是高能帶電粒子 kah 塗粉 tī kha-mé-lah 附近反射太陽光造成 ê。地球 ê 觀星者 可能會注意著 tī 這張影像正爿下跤幾若粒熟似 ê 天星，in to̍h 是獵戶座 ê 皮帶 kah 劍。 ——— 這是 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day ê 台語文 podcast 原文版：https://apod.nasa.gov/ 台文版：https://apod.tw/ 今仔日 ê 文章： 影像：NASA, JHUAPL, Naval Research Lab, Guillermo Stenborg and Brendn Gallagher 音樂：PiSCO - 鼎鼎 聲優：彪彪 翻譯：An-Li Tsai (NCU) 原文：https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210225.html Powered by Firstory Hosting

Professor Justin (Gus) Hurwitz is an associate professor of law at the University of Nebraska, where he is also the Menard Director of the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center and the Co-Director of the Space, Cyber, and Telecommunications Law Program. He is also the Director of Law & Economics Programs at the International Center for Law & Economics, where he works to incorporate economic tools into legal and regulatory analysis. He has particular expertise in telecommunications law and technology, including data- and cybersecurity. Professor Hurwitz has a background in technology having worked at Los Alamos National Lab and interned at the Naval Research Lab prior to law school, and he held an Internet2 Land Speed World Record with the Guinness Book of World Records. Professor Hurwitz received his JD from the University of Chicago Law School, was a Trial Attorney with the DOJ’s Antitrust Division in the Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section, and his legal scholarship has been cited widely by the popular press and government agencies.

A few days ago we brought you an interview with a Naval Research Lab scientist who used nano-structures to help discover how the coronavirus binds to and infect human cells. Now, for the other half of the story, the scientist at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. NCATS took the Navy-developed structures and did the tests on cells. Joining the Federal Drive with those details, Dr. Kirill Gorshkov.

When talking about the pandemic, host cell surface angiotensin converting enzyme might not be a household phrase. But it's part of an important piece of research completed by the Naval Research Laboratory and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, part of the NIH. The research, just accepted by a peer review scientific journal, has to do with how the virus actually goes about infecting people. For more, the Federal Drive spoke with research chemist, and acting head of the optical nanomaterials section at the Naval Research Lab, Dr. Mason Wolak. We started with the nature of the collaboration.

More than 25 years ago, Gene Leyzarovich arrived in his new home of Pittsburgh as a refugee from Russia. Only two years later, while he was completing his education at the University of Pittsburgh and working night shifts at UPMC, Gene founded Advanced Computer & Network Corporation (AC&NC) to build high-performance JetStor (US federal trademark) storage systems and he has never looked back. In over 23 years in business, AC&NC has installed its JetStor RAID (redundant array of independent disks) systems for over 4,000 clients in numerous locations in the United States, Canada, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, and Australia. Under Gene's leadership, AC&NC has built a prestigious customer list that includes companies like Sony, Microsoft, Starbucks, CBS, and the fifthlargest food retailing company Supervalu. JetStor brand powers research in a wide range of disciplines at NASA, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, Naval Research Lab, NIST and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center; supports the work of US Department of State; and helps strengthen world-renowned institutions, from Carnegie Mellon University to Duke University, Columbia University, Yale University, and Stanford University, to name a few. AC&NC has established a big presence in UK, with over 50% of UK Police forces relying on JetStor units. A finalist in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2016, Gene recognizes that risk-taking is an inherent part of running a small business that is in direct competition with multi-billion dollar corporations. The challenge of that competition and the thrill of coming ahead have motivated Gene to develop AC&NC as a nimble company that meets the customer's needs in creative and innovative ways, including his involvement with new partners at the development stages of new products. Gene has been a sponsor of USENIX, a 501(c)(3) Advanced Computing Systems Association, for 15 years. Gene has been a founding sponsor of the League of Professional System Administrators and a member of Pittsburgh Technology Council. Together with his family, Gene also supports the vibrancy and vitality of our region with contributions to Pittsburgh Opera and United Jewish FederationPodcast CreditsBe sure to connect with us in our Lead Sell Grow – The Human Experience Tribe Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/leadsellgrowLearn more about our services:LeadSellGrow.bizImprove your sales and stay connected – Free Gifts Here https://shor.by/TheGoalGuidePodcast Intro and outroArtist: DisfigureTrack: BlankMusic Provided by: NoCopyrightSoundsWatch: https://youtu.be/p7ZsBPK656sFree Download / Stream: http://ncs.io/blank

Join the after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Newly released incident reports detail US Navy's 'UFO' encounters Link: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/navy-ufo-incident-reports/index.html Read report: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/read-us-navy-ufo-documents/index.html Read Report Analysis: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast Washington (CNN)Newly released "hazard reports" detailing encounters between US Navy aircraft and "unidentified aerial phenomena" reveal details about incidents that were thrust into the spotlight when the Pentagon officially declassified and released videos of three encounters late last month. "The unknown aircraft appeared to be small in size, approximately the size of a suitcase, and silver in color," one report describing an incident from March 26, 2014, said. During that encounter one of the Navy F/A-18 jets "passed within 1000' of the object, but was unable to positively determine the identity of the aircraft," the report added, saying the US Navy pilot "attempted to regain visual contact with the aircraft, but was unable." The reports were first published by the Drive, a website covering auto news and military issues, which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request. Objects could be drones The newly released reports appear to share this assessment, describing many of the unidentified aircraft as "Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)," the Pentagon's official name for drone aircraft. According to another incident report from November 2013 a Navy F/A-18 pilot "was able to visually acquire a small aircraft. The aircraft had an approximately 5 foot wingspan and was colored white with no other distinguishable features." "Due to the small size, the aircraft was determined to be a UAS," the report said. Another incident from June 27, 2013, said the encountered "aircraft was white in color and approximately the size and shape of a drone or missile," according to the report. The USS Nimitz UFO incident was a radar-visual encounter of an unidentified flying object by US fighter pilots of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2004. Two F/A-18 Super Hornets pilots led by the commander of Strike Fighter Squadron 41 communicated that they saw a flying object. Radar signals were seen by United States Navy ships and aircraft in the area as well.[1] "Post flight, the controlling agency contacted numerous local UAS operators, but none claimed knowledge of" the unidentified aircraft, the November report said. "I feel it may only be a matter of time before one of our F/A-18 aircraft has a mid-air collision with an unidentified UAS," one of the authors of a report warned. "In many ways" drones "pose a greater midair risk than manned aircraft. They are often less visually significant and less radar apparent than manned aircraft," the report said. Former NASA Director Warns The Next Killer Supervirus Could Be Alien In Nature Link: https://brobible.com/culture/article/former-nasa-director-next-supervirus-alien/ Think things are bad now, do you? Well, strap in, because at some point in the future it is going to get a whole lot worse, according to the former director of NASA Ames and the first Mars program director, Scott Hubbard. Hubbard, now a adjunct professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, recently published a paper in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in which he explains that all those trips we have made and continue to make to outer space are going to come back and bite us in the butt one day when we drag home a supervirus like nothing we've ever seen before. If that sort of claim sounds somewhat familiar, it's because Hubbard is far from the only scientist who believes in such things. Chandra Wickramasinghe, a scientist from the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, already stated back in February, “The sudden outbreak of a new coronavirus is very likely to have a space connection, the strong localization of the virus within China is the most remarkable aspect of the disease. In October last year a fragment of a comet exploded in a brief flash in North East China. We think it probable that this contained embedded within it a monoculture of infective 2019-nCoV virus particles that survived in the interior of the incandescent meteor. We consider the seemingly outrageous possibility that hundreds of trillions of infective viral particles were then released embedded in the form of fine carbonaceous dust. We believe infectious agents are prevalent in space, carried on comets, and can fall towards Earth through the troposphere. These, we think, can and have in the past gone on to bring about human disease epidemics.” From WIRED: “A Secret Space Plane is Carrying a Solar Experiment to Orbit” Link: https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/from-wired-a-secret-space-plane-is-carrying-a-solar-experiment-to-orbit/ The idea of beaming solar energy to Earth with radio waves is decades old. But this weekend, the technology gets its first test in orbit. On Saturday, the US Air Force is expected to launch its secret space plane, X-37B, for a long-duration mission in low Earth orbit. The robotic orbiter looks like a smaller version of the space shuttle and has spent nearly eight of the past 10 years in space conducting classified experiments for the military. Almost nothing is known about what X-37B does up there, but ahead of its sixth launch the Air Force gave some rare details about its cargo. “This is a major step forward,” says Paul Jaffe, an electronics engineer at the Naval Research Lab and lead researcher on the project. “This is the first time that any component geared towards a solar-powered satellite system has ever been tested in orbit.” Space-based solar power is all about getting solar power to Earth no matter the weather or the time of day. The basic idea is to convert the sun's energy into microwaves and beam it down. Unlike terrestrial solar panels, satellites in a sufficiently high orbit might only experience darkness for a few minutes per day. If this energy could be captured, it could provide an inexhaustible source of power no matter where you are on the planet. It's an idea that was cooked up by the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in the 1940s; since then, beamed power experiments have been successfully tested several times on Earth. But the experiment on X-37B will be the first time the core technologies behind microwave solar power will be tested in orbit. “The science of microwave power beaming is fully understood; it is the engineering challenges of scaling known technology to a size never before seen on orbit that we need to progress,” says Ian Cash, the director of the International Electric Company Limited, which is developing a space solar platform called CASSIOPeiA. “But every endeavour must start with a first step.” Show Stuff Join the fan chat on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

Join the after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Newly released incident reports detail US Navy's 'UFO' encounters Link: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/navy-ufo-incident-reports/index.html Read report: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/read-us-navy-ufo-documents/index.html Read Report Analysis: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-detailed-ufo-incident-reports-from-navy-pilots-flying-off-the-east-coast Washington (CNN)Newly released "hazard reports" detailing encounters between US Navy aircraft and "unidentified aerial phenomena" reveal details about incidents that were thrust into the spotlight when the Pentagon officially declassified and released videos of three encounters late last month. "The unknown aircraft appeared to be small in size, approximately the size of a suitcase, and silver in color," one report describing an incident from March 26, 2014, said. During that encounter one of the Navy F/A-18 jets "passed within 1000' of the object, but was unable to positively determine the identity of the aircraft," the report added, saying the US Navy pilot "attempted to regain visual contact with the aircraft, but was unable." The reports were first published by the Drive, a website covering auto news and military issues, which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request. Objects could be drones The newly released reports appear to share this assessment, describing many of the unidentified aircraft as "Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)," the Pentagon's official name for drone aircraft. According to another incident report from November 2013 a Navy F/A-18 pilot "was able to visually acquire a small aircraft. The aircraft had an approximately 5 foot wingspan and was colored white with no other distinguishable features." "Due to the small size, the aircraft was determined to be a UAS," the report said. Another incident from June 27, 2013, said the encountered "aircraft was white in color and approximately the size and shape of a drone or missile," according to the report. The USS Nimitz UFO incident was a radar-visual encounter of an unidentified flying object by US fighter pilots of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in 2004. Two F/A-18 Super Hornets pilots led by the commander of Strike Fighter Squadron 41 communicated that they saw a flying object. Radar signals were seen by United States Navy ships and aircraft in the area as well.[1] "Post flight, the controlling agency contacted numerous local UAS operators, but none claimed knowledge of" the unidentified aircraft, the November report said. "I feel it may only be a matter of time before one of our F/A-18 aircraft has a mid-air collision with an unidentified UAS," one of the authors of a report warned. "In many ways" drones "pose a greater midair risk than manned aircraft. They are often less visually significant and less radar apparent than manned aircraft," the report said. Former NASA Director Warns The Next Killer Supervirus Could Be Alien In Nature Link: https://brobible.com/culture/article/former-nasa-director-next-supervirus-alien/ Think things are bad now, do you? Well, strap in, because at some point in the future it is going to get a whole lot worse, according to the former director of NASA Ames and the first Mars program director, Scott Hubbard. Hubbard, now a adjunct professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, recently published a paper in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in which he explains that all those trips we have made and continue to make to outer space are going to come back and bite us in the butt one day when we drag home a supervirus like nothing we've ever seen before. If that sort of claim sounds somewhat familiar, it's because Hubbard is far from the only scientist who believes in such things. Chandra Wickramasinghe, a scientist from the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, already stated back in February, “The sudden outbreak of a new coronavirus is very likely to have a space connection, the strong localization of the virus within China is the most remarkable aspect of the disease. In October last year a fragment of a comet exploded in a brief flash in North East China. We think it probable that this contained embedded within it a monoculture of infective 2019-nCoV virus particles that survived in the interior of the incandescent meteor. We consider the seemingly outrageous possibility that hundreds of trillions of infective viral particles were then released embedded in the form of fine carbonaceous dust. We believe infectious agents are prevalent in space, carried on comets, and can fall towards Earth through the troposphere. These, we think, can and have in the past gone on to bring about human disease epidemics.” From WIRED: “A Secret Space Plane is Carrying a Solar Experiment to Orbit” Link: https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/from-wired-a-secret-space-plane-is-carrying-a-solar-experiment-to-orbit/ The idea of beaming solar energy to Earth with radio waves is decades old. But this weekend, the technology gets its first test in orbit. On Saturday, the US Air Force is expected to launch its secret space plane, X-37B, for a long-duration mission in low Earth orbit. The robotic orbiter looks like a smaller version of the space shuttle and has spent nearly eight of the past 10 years in space conducting classified experiments for the military. Almost nothing is known about what X-37B does up there, but ahead of its sixth launch the Air Force gave some rare details about its cargo. “This is a major step forward,” says Paul Jaffe, an electronics engineer at the Naval Research Lab and lead researcher on the project. “This is the first time that any component geared towards a solar-powered satellite system has ever been tested in orbit.” Space-based solar power is all about getting solar power to Earth no matter the weather or the time of day. The basic idea is to convert the sun's energy into microwaves and beam it down. Unlike terrestrial solar panels, satellites in a sufficiently high orbit might only experience darkness for a few minutes per day. If this energy could be captured, it could provide an inexhaustible source of power no matter where you are on the planet. It's an idea that was cooked up by the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in the 1940s; since then, beamed power experiments have been successfully tested several times on Earth. But the experiment on X-37B will be the first time the core technologies behind microwave solar power will be tested in orbit. “The science of microwave power beaming is fully understood; it is the engineering challenges of scaling known technology to a size never before seen on orbit that we need to progress,” says Ian Cash, the director of the International Electric Company Limited, which is developing a space solar platform called CASSIOPeiA. “But every endeavour must start with a first step.” Show Stuff Join the fan chat on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler

LeTourneau University Professor of Chemistry Dr. Gary DeBoer has taught at LETU since 1998 with summers working at NASA, the Naval Research Lab and the Air Force Research Lab. Intellectual Property issues and how technology impacts our world are some of his academic passions. For more stories, visit https://www.letu.edu/tv or search "LeTourneau Snapshots" on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your content.

Guest: Dr. David Peterson, NASA/Naval Research LabAs millions of acres have been ablaze across Australia in recent weeks, those wildfires have formed incredible smoke plumes that tower thousands of feet into the atmosphere. These “pyrocumulonimbus clouds” can transport massive amounts of smoke and ash into the sky, and some of that smoke has even been found to have circled the globe! Today’s guest is Dr. David Peterson from the Naval Research Lab, and his research focuses on the far-reaching impacts these monster clouds can have, including how they generate their own weather! We’ll discuss what techniques he uses to observe these events and whether or not we can expect more events in a warming climate.

The Defense Department has pinned its hopes on someday putting artificial intelligence tools in the hands of warfighters to help them make data-driven decisions on the battlefield. But Ranjeev Mittu, the head of the Naval Research Lab's information management and decision architectures branch, says the AI algorithms of today are starved for reliable training data to make informed decisions in the real world. He tells Federal News Network's Jory Heckman what he sees as the most promising use cases of AI the lab is working on.

In the months following President Donald Trump's executive order which putting a priority on artificial intelligence in government, agencies are taking steps to ensure the federal workforce sees AI as an asset, not a threat. For example, the Naval Research Laboratory is looking at using AI tools to detect and correct for workplace challenges before employees walk out the door. The Government Accountability Office is look at ways to improve the data collection that powers these AI tools. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more.

Episode 21: Alex Capecelatro – Josh.ai Alex Capecelatro is the founder and CEO of Josh.ai, a voice-controlled home automation system with a focus on artificial intelligence. Josh.ai utilizes a proprietary natural language understanding (NLU) engine with state of the art home control integrations for a powerful smart home experience. Alex started his career as a research scientist for NASA, the Naval Research Lab, and later Sandia National Laboratory. He then ventured into consumer technology first with electric car manufacturer Fisker Automotive, then through founding two social software products “At The Pool” and “Yeti” with members in more than 120 countries. Alex’s focus is at the intersection of elegant design, cutting-edge software, and purposeful hardware to offer transformational experiences. Alex received his engineering degree from UCLA and currently splits his time between LA and Denver. Links to things we talk about: Alex Capecelatro on LinkedIn Josh.ai Josh AI on Instagram AVC - Fred Wilson's Blog for Union Square IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR, PLEASE: Subscribe to our list Connect with us on Twitter Email us and tell us what you think! Colorado TechCast brings you interviews with entrepreneurs, thought leaders and technology pioneers from around the state. We provide a behind the scenes look at who’s doing what, why, and how you can get involved. Join us each episode to hear the exciting stories of technology happenings in our state. I want this show to be relevant to you, so please send me your thoughts and suggestions. My email address is Trapper@ColoradoTechCast.com. You can also hit me up on Twitter @CoTechCast. I read and respond to all messages so drop me a line and tell me what you think. I am always on the lookout for future guests, so if you know anyone with an interesting story to tell, or you yourself would like to come on and talk about what you’re building, then send me an email. Thanks for tuning in, and join us next time when we bring you the story of another digital pioneer from Colorado!

Best Voice Control Assistant better than Alexa, Goggle Home and Siri is Josh! #WhyJosh explained here by CEO Alex Capecelatro of www.Josh.ai. www. Theo Kalomirakis and I have an enlightening discussion on voice control and the possibilities. Alex educates us on the passion behind the brand, the unique features only availble through Josh and the manufacturers they are aligning with. If you are new to voice control or just not sure which platform is best, we hope you take a minute and learn #WhyJosh! Alex Capecelatro is the founder and CEO of Josh.ai, a voice controlled home automation system focused on artificial intelligence for high-end homes. Josh.ai utilizes a proprietary natural language understanding (NLU) engine with state of the art home control integrations for a powerful smart home experience. Alex started his career as a research scientist for NASA, the Naval Research Lab, and later Sandia National Laboratory. He then ventured into consumer technology first with electric car

The war for the living room used to be simple: influence whoever was in charge of the family TV’s remote control. With the rise of the Internet of Things, smart speakers, and AI-enabled home automation systems - the home itself has become the next computing platform. To get a handle on what the future of smart homes might look like, I caught up with Alex Capecelatro in LA. Alex started his career as a research scientist for NASA, the Naval Research Lab, and Sandia National Lab. He later joined Fisker Automotive, ran his own startup, At The Pool, before creating Josh.ai, an AI agent for the home.

The war for the living room used to be simple: influence whoever was in charge of the family TV’s remote control. With the rise of the Internet of Things, smart speakers, and AI-enabled home automation systems - the home itself has become the next computing platform. To get a handle on what the future of smart homes might look like, I caught up with Alex Capecelatro in LA. Alex started his career as a research scientist for NASA, the Naval Research Lab, and Sandia National Lab. He later joined Fisker Automotive, ran his own startup, At The Pool, before creating Josh.ai, an AI agent for the home.

Host Dan Zehner talks with scientists whose jobs are forecasting and planning for stormsurge and flooding. Coastal engineer Cheryl Ann Blain works in the oceanography division in the Office of Naval Research. David Johnson is a professor of engineering and political science at Purdue University. At the Naval Research Lab in Mississippi, Blain develops storm surge models and forecasts with the ADCIRC tool. She discusses the history and importance of ADCIRC, one of the first hurricane modeling tools developed. It is used around the nation for regional forecasting and predicting local storm surge. ADCIRC makes relatively accurate predictions, usually within three days of the event. Blain discusses data that is used to build a forecast, including wind and topography data. She explains the trend for using ensembles of data, different groupings of info, which produce the “spaghetti plots” we see in hurricane forecasts. David Johnson agrees with Blain that some things, such as storm direction, are hard to predict because we don’t fully understand how hurricanes form. As a result, we still make guesses about what sorts of data should go into our models. One of projects Johnson works on is Louisiana’s coastal master plan project. Louisiana seeks to reduce flood risk and land loss, so policy-makers and scientists are trying to determine how factors like changing climate, population and ground subsidence will affect the region. To plan, they develop multiple scenarios and estimate risk, depending on various strategies, such as building levies or wetlands. Planners weigh priorities, which are often in conflict. For example, building a levee takes years; so should the state first dedicate itself to elevating houses? Such planning is not limited to the Gulf Coast. New Jersey and New York, after Superstorm Sandy, are making similar plans. Johnson and Blain discuss how national infrastructure is affected by storm surge affects, including NASA, which has many coastal installations. They discuss how levees prevent river flooding but then prevent natural distribution of river sediments – a natural process that creates protective coastal wetlands. In Louisiana, planners must manage river flooding as well as stormstorm flooding. Johnson and Blain discuss why it is not possible for the US to replicate the success of the Netherlands, when it comes to preventing flooding and sea inundation.

Astronomer Kristy Dyer, Naval Research Lab is using the GBT to image M82, a starburst galaxy in Ursa Major. Her goal: to learn what triggers star formation.