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Water Reclamation Facility Upgrades Help Keep Chesapeake Bay Clean

Anne Arundel County leadership in Maryland recently celebrated the successful completion of upgrades to the Cox Creek Water Reclamation Facility (WRF), designed to drastically reduce pollutants in local waterways.

AI & Technology

Gaming for Infrastructure

On the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) blog, Tetra Tech’s Nilmini Rubin and Jennifer Hara discuss the benefits of practice sessions for public-private partnerships teams tasked with addressing complex infrastructure issues. Nilmini and Jennifer discuss the applications of multiplayer simulations across multiple sectors, allowing teams to try out approaches and see challenges from partners’ viewpoints.

Energy & Infrastructure

Data Analytics: More Than a Mere Numbers Game for Water Providers

Water providers have been collecting and utilizing data to perform important but traditional tasks: Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices speed information across networks, and smart metering infrastructure systems measure consumption and contribute to customer billing. But, as utilities wrestle with addressing aging foundational assets while balancing limited capital and rising calls for lower costs and safer water, there is new urgency to explore how data can drive and optimize asset performance and reduce risk.

AI & Technology

Lockheed Martin Will Build New Space Instrument Focused on Vegetation Health and Carbon Monitoring

Scientists will get a better understanding of our planet’s carbon cycle and vegetation health through a first-of-a-kind NASA instrument built by Lockheed Martin. The Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCARB) mission will use an advanced infrared spectrograph hosted on a commercial geosynchronous satellite. The project is led by Principal Investigator Dr. Berrien Moore at the University of Oklahoma.

AI & Technology

Cyber-Defenders in the New Battle to Protect Big, Connected Machines

Critical infrastructure comprises the giant systems that support modern life, from power plants and water treatment plants to mass-transit systems. These facilities are operated through industrial control systems, sensors and components that talk to each other and to facility operators. These systems, like a smartphone, provides easy access to information and controls that would otherwise be difficult to get.

AI & Technology

Technology Creates New Efficiencies, But Are Water Utilities Prepared for the Security Risk?

Yahoo!, the Democratic National Convention and the U.S. Department of Justice were among the high-profile victims hit by major cyber attacks in 2016. Many people believe it’s only a matter of time before a water utility joins the list. Some consider physical security to be the weak link in ensuring a well-protected water supply; while others worry that the Internet of Things has created an incalculable number of entry points for hackers to create mischief.

Philanthropy

Boeing Renews Approach to Company’s Philanthropic Activities and Charitable Investments

Boeing (NYSE: BA) today announced an organizational realignment, strategy update and branding refresh of the company’s philanthropic giving organization.

Energy & Infrastructure

Texas A&M Students Create Building Envelope Designs from GM Manufacturing Scrap

General Motors thinks of waste as a resource out of place. To help make the zero-waste mindset more mainstream, the company engages others in its mission, including students. Most recently it was Texas A&M University’s College of Architecture helping reimagine waste materials to keep them in use.

AI & Technology

Maximizing Smart Grid Deployments Through Communications and Network Infrastructure

By building communications networks that can more tightly integrate business drivers and goals with the day-to-day load demand for their customers, utilities are taking the initial steps toward integrating the smart grid with smart cities.

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