Raytheon Company was awarded a Department of Homeland Security contract to develop a Stand-Off Warning Against Radiological Materials technology.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has completed the J-2X engine Critical Design Review. Starting in 2014, the J-2X rocket engine will power the Ares I rocket into space, helping deliver the Orion crew exploration vehicle, its crew of astronauts and small payloads to the International Space Station.

A new poll of 21 nations finds very strong support for the government requiring utilities to use more alternative energy and requiring businesses to use energy more efficiently. Fewer than half of the nations polled favor putting more emphasis on nuclear energy or on coal or oil.

Five new Ford Motor products eill be fitted with Carlite's noise-blocking SoundScreen windshields. The windshields use a sheet of specially-developed acoustic vinyl sandwiched between two layers of glass.

Owens Corning has increased the certified recycled content in its flagship PINK Fiberglas insulation to a minimum of 40 percent. At this level of recycled content, the amount of waste glass diverted from landfills could form a two-lane glass highway that extends 1.3 times around the world.

AFS Trinity Power Corporation intends to file for $2.5 billion of funding from the $25 billion "green retooling" fund just established by Congress, with up to $2 Billion of the funding to be used for retooling an existing factory of a major American car maker whose assembly line employees will be retrained to produce plug in hybrid SUV's that utilize AFS Trinity's 150 mile per gallon "Extreme Hybrid" technology.

Avantium has introduced a novel technology to measure corrosion that has broad potential in the oil and chemical industry, where corrosive effects of crude oil, oil fractions and chemicals can have devastating effects on pipelines, refineries and chemical plants.

Nanocomposites are at an interesting stage in their product life cycle, moving from innovation to the growth phase. Frost & Sullivan finds that the World Nanoparticles In Composites Market earned revenues of $33.7 million in 2006 and estimates this to reach $144.6 million in 2013.

AFS Trinity Power Corporation reported that independent test results demonstrate that batteries in combination with ultracapacitors will enable a plug in hybrid vehicles to have a useful life that is 6 times greater than plug ins that use lithium batteries alone -- 150,000 miles versus 25,000 miles for a conventional plug in hybrid that uses lithium ion batteries alone.

Increasing oil price and growing concerns over energy security are helping accelerate the development and commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles. Federal and local governments have been proactively funding fuel cell technology.