DefenseNews

Unit cost of Army watercraft more than twice the original price

November 10, 2023
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s brand new watercraft will cost the service more than double the original price tag to build, according to the Army acquisition chief. The unit cost, after the most recent contract negotiations with the Maneuver Support Vessel-Light’s builder Vigor, increased from $27.8 million to $63.1 million per unit, a spokesperson for the acquisition chief confirmed. Army…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: November 9, 2023

November 10, 2023
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Cleantech & EV'sNews

New Jersey is going to get a nearly $1B power grid upgrade

November 10, 2023
Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L), which serves over 1 million customers in central and northern New Jersey, is going to make its largest power grid upgrade in company history. JCP&L said today that it’s filing a new infrastructure improvement program with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to upgrade its electric grid. Known as “EnergizeNJ,” the five-year, $935…
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NewsSpace

Construction on NASA Mission to Map 450 Million Galaxies Is Under Way

November 10, 2023
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is beginning to look much like it will when it arrives in Earth orbit and starts mapping the entire sky. Short for Specto-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx resembles a bullhorn, albeit one that will stand almost 8.5 feet tall (2.6 meters) and stretch nearly 10.5 feet (3.2 meters) wide. Giving the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Gong Forecast gets AI upgrade, improving accuracy 20% over CRM revenue forecasting

November 10, 2023
Gong, the revenue/sales team software company that recently introduced its own AI-powered audio/video call summarization and insights generator, Call Spotlight, is continuing to bolster its offerings with new AI features. Today, the eight-year-old company headquartered in San Francisco announced exclusively to VentureBeat that it is launching a new version of Gong Forecast, its revenue forecasting…
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