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 E-Mail IMAGE: Stefan Wilhelm, Assistant Professor in the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma view more  Credit: Travis Caperton, OU Photographer NORMAN, OKLA. - University of Oklahoma researcher Stefan Wilhelm, Ph.D., recently received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation. The NSF awarded Wilhelm a $761,727 CAREER award to continue his research in nanotechnology, which assists in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer. Wilhelm's work focuses on individual nanoparticle...

Airline Ratings 9M-MRO at Perth Airport in 2012. Credit: Alan Pepper The new report from aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey into the tracking of MH370 using a new tool to interpret Weak Single Propagation passive HF detection has both electrified the science community but also, as would be expected, raised some questions. Yesterday answering some critics Richard Godfrey said “I would no longer characterize the track in the new paper as speculative but a working hypothesis. The MH370 flight path I have proposed is a hypothesis supported by a body of evidence in the form of a larg...

GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System (OCX) Follow-On (OCX 3F). The OCX 3F program is further future iteration of the GPS Enterprise Modernization effort. OCX comes in four blocks: 0, 1, 2 and now 3F. Only Block 0 is currently operative, though it does not “fly” the constellation, it only handles Launch and Early Orbit (LEO) operations and the on-orbit checkout of all GPS III satellites. I has done so for four GPS III satellites so far. A fifth launch is due in June. [Photo: GPS ground antenna at Schriever Air Force Base, home of the 50th Space Wing. Courtesy Raytheon] Currentl...

Raytheon wins $228 million GPS ground system contract OCX is being built to command and control Lockheed Martin’s GPS III satellites. (Lockheed Martin) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded Raytheon Intelligence & Space a $228 million contract for the follow-on control system for the GPS satellite constellation. The contract awarded April 30 extends Raytheon’s work on a new ground system for the GPS constellation known as the Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX). The company already delivered Block 0 and is working on Blocks 1 and 2. This contract expands the company...

Thu April 29, 2021 - Southeast Edition #9 Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent After formally coming aboard in 1978, Gregory Poole III worked through a succession of positions for the next 18 years, culminating in 1996 with his rise to president and chief operating officer. Seventy years of success didn't just happen for Caterpillar dealership's success has come from being well-grounded as an organization from its founding in 1951 and from being able to adapt to evolving — sometimes abruptly changing — circumstances. Company President Gregory Poole III characterized the mostly ups ...