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01-22-16

At the "Innovation in Aerospace" forum held at Caltech —part of the Idea 2 Innovation series cosponsored by Innovate Pasadena and Caltech—three of the aerospace industry's biggest companies discussed some of their most exciting new ventures. Northrop Grumman's Starshade project could help find life on other planets. Boeing's new unmanned Echo Seeker submarine is capable of diving 20,000 feet below sea level. Lockheed Martin's new imaging technology could radically shrink the size of space telescopes, making it far more efficient to send them deep into space. [Video of event] [Caltech story]

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10-21-14

Dr. John Tracy, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering, Operations and Technology for The Boeing Company is the 2014 recipients of the prestigious International von Kármán Wings Award. Dr. Tracy was recognized for his visionary technology and leadership contributions to the aerospace industry, in particular, technical and functional excellence, and transforming structural and material technologies for commercial and defense applications. The von Kármán Wings Award acknowledges outstanding contributions by international innovators, leaders, and pioneers in aerospace and is presented by the Aerospace Historical Society, which is part of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT). [Caltech Release]

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