Press Releases | Southwest Research Institute

09/07/2012	SwRI engineers investigate "cognitive fingerprints" for bolstering computer passwords New, biometrics-based authentication tool could boost computer security
08/24/2012	SwRI receives DOE award for lithium-ion battery technology Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awards SwRI $712,500 contract to develop breakthrough energy storage technologies
08/22/2012	SwRI receives $5.1 million contract from DARPA to develop library for predicting survivability of military ground vehicles Researchers to develop C2M2L-2 Context Model Library for DARPA Adaptive Vehicle Make Program
08/17/2012	SwRI receives U.S. DOE award to advance clean coal technology SwRI researchers receive DOE award to demonstrate a novel power cycle for coal-fired emissions plants
08/15/2012	The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LAMP spectrometer detects helium in Moon atmosphere, raises questions about origin Observations complement previous measurements taken by Apollo 17 experiment
08/06/2012	Curiosity ready to rove Mars NASA's latest Mars rover carries SwRI’s Radiation Assessment Detector
07/30/2012	SwRI adds test cell to flow component test capabilities New cell tests valves and other pressure-containing and pressure-controlling products
07/26/2012	SwRI, industry collaborators receive $3.8 million from U.S. DOE to develop concentrating solar power combustor for solar plants Team to develop a novel gas turbine combustor for a concentrating solar power hybrid gas turbine system
07/26/2012	SwRI, industry collaborators receive $8.5 million from U.S. Department of Energy to develop high-efficiency hot gas turbo-expander for solar plants High-efficiency supercritical CO2 hot gas turbo-expander to be developed for concentrating solar power plant
07/09/2012	Smith promoted to vice president of SwRI Signal Exploitation and Geolocation Division Expertise includes designing, developing, testing shipboard, land-based and airborne electronic support systems
07/03/2012	Green named Fellow of the Geological Society of America Green is one of 78 GSA professional members elected to Fellowship for 2012
06/26/2012	SwRI Hybrid Ceramic-Sand Core Casting Technology wins R&D 100 Award New technology enables production of heavy-duty diesel engines with higher peak cylinder pressure capability
06/21/2012	SwRI building eight NASA microsatellites to help predict extreme weather events on Earth Constellation of satellites will observe hurricanes as they form and intensify
05/10/2012	Asteroid collision that spawned Vesta asteroid family occurred more recently than originally thought Images from the Dawn spacecraft indicate that a collision that created the impact crater Rheasilvia on Asteroid (4) Vesta occurred more recently than was previously thought.
05/10/2012	New IBEX data show the heliosphere long-theorized bow shock does not exist New data requires decades of research that included a bow shock to be re-examined.