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VICIS wins $250K grant to continue building high-tech football helmet that reduces brain trauma
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Vicis has more cash to help the company finish developing its high-tech football helmet. The company, which spun out of the University of Washington last year, was awarded with a $ 250,000 grant after again being named a winner of the recent Head Health Challenge II, a $ 40 million initiative organized by the NFL,...
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Moon Express wins thumbs-up from XPRIZE for multimillion-dollar lunar launch
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Moon Express, the lunar exploration venture co-founded by Seattle entrepreneur Naveen Jain, has gotten the “all systems go” signal for its bid to put a robotic lander to the moon and win the Google Lunar XPRIZE. The thumbs-up comes in the form of XPRIZE’s certification of Moon Express’ launch contract with Los Angeles-based Rocket Lab USA. If all goes...
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Boost for Boeing: Export-Import Bank wins revival after battle in Congress
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Nearly six months after the Export-Import Bank was shut down due to congressional wrangling, the federal agency has been revived – which is good news for the Boeing Co. The bank plays a key role in making loans and guaranteeing loans to foreign buyers of U.S. goods. Since 2007, it’s provided support for $ 135 billion in exports from...
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