Peter Fox-Penner

Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy, and Professor of Practice, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Skylark Labs’ Scout MK1 towers and command center deployed during the ARIES Counter-sUAS demo at Camp Atterbury.
Skylark Labs' Aries System Demonstrates Detection of "Dark Drones"
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Archer Buys Factory to Accelerate Defense Aircraft Development
August 7, 2025
Northrop Grumman’s second SMART Demo static test at the company’s Promontory, Utah, test facility.
Northrop Grumman Advances Solid Rocket Motor Manufacturing with Successful Rapid Development Test
August 6, 2025
A drone hovers in airspace outside the safety perimeter surrounding St. Louis Lambert International Airport as an airliner approaches for a landing on March 10, 2025.
U.S. Government Proposes Easing Some Restrictions On Drones Traveling Long Distances
August 5, 2025
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Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. is seeing fiscal second-quarter profit slip 3 percent despite growing sales because of costs related to improper vehicle checks in Japan and a massive global air-bag recall in the U.S. Nissan, allied with Renault SA of France, reported Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, a July-September profit of 141.6 billion yen ($1.2 billion), down from 146.1 billion yen the same period last year.
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Nissan's Profit Flattens
This July 25, 2017, frame grab from video shows the Nest Cam IQ camera. Nest’s newest home security camera is supposed to be so smart that it can recognize anyone entering its sight line after it has been introduced to someone. That skill comes from facial recognition technology made by sister company Google. As The Associated Press discovered, the Nest Cam IQ has an uncanny knack for recognizing people, even when they’re disguised.
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Security Camera Recognizes People
Sandia National Laboratories systems analysts Alex Dessanti and Karina Munoz-Ramos review the optimization criteria to select the best combination of equipment to create infrastructure for overseas Army bases.
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'Microgrids' Are Not a Cure-All for Puerto Rico
The problem has little to do with technologies and everything to do with some nearly insurmountable financial and governance challenges.
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