The Energy Department has offered grants to help several technology organizations develop software products, sensors and predictive algorithms for managing the performance of lithium-ion batteries, Gigacom reported Wednesday. Katie Fehrenbacher writes Battelle designed an optical sensor that aims to detect internal battery faults, while General Electric built a miniaturized system to monitor battery pressure and […] More

SRI International has introduced a new platform made for identifying and analyzing circulating tumor cells from blood samples. The FASTcell technology is built as a testing service for cancer researchers and clinicians to detect and capture tumor cells from normal blood cells in order to perform molecular and genetic analysis, SRI said Tuesday. Lidia Sambucetti, […] More

Dr. Melvin Greer serves as senior fellow and chief strategist for service-oriented architecture and cloud computing at Lockheed Martin, where he brings more than 25 years of experience leading systems and software engineering efforts to the contractor’s advanced technology office. Greer is a principal investigator in advanced research studies, and has dedicated his efforts towards […] More