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The Almighty Grid

Rebuilding America’s energy infrastructure

By Ilene Wolff

The spider web of power lines, transformers and circuits that move electricity from power plants to our homes and ...

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Clearing The Air On Cloud Computing

Cloud computing offers a lot of promise for business to not only save money on IT spending, but also to rapidly scale up for important Internet advertising campaigns and ...

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LTU tackles military projects

The Center for Innovative Materials Research (CIMR) at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Southfield is conducting two projects for the U.S. Army-Tank Automotive,...

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Training emergency responders

Oakland Community College’s Auburn Hills, MI, campus is accustomed to emergencies. In fact, emergencies happen there every day at the school’s Combined Regional Emergency...

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Macomb County On The Defense

Macomb County was the center of what was called the Arsenal of Democracy during World War II. Today, it remains a center for defense research and development, with nearly...

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Tacom’s Tough Roles: Protecting Soldiers And Intelligence

By far, the biggest player in defense in Southeast Michigan is the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, which unites all of the organizations that focus on sold...

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Michigan’s Cyber Firing Range Is Blazing New Trails

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder hopes the Michigan Cyber Range, dedicated in November at Eastern Michigan University, will help make Michigan a center of cyber-security excelle...

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Plex Systems: A Case Study In Cloud Service

Plex Systems of Troy, MI, has built its business around delivering enterprise resource planning (ERP) software from the cloud. The Automation Alley Foundation member comp...

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Do Mobile Devices Threaten Business?

Owens Illinois didn’t allow its employees to connect their own technology — smartphones, laptops, tablet computers — to the corporate computer network until early last ye...

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