omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
James Ryan (entrepreneur). James Ryan (born in 1974, Anchorage, Alaska) is an American entrepreneur in cyber security. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Litmus Logic, a security firm. Ryan's contributions to the cyber security industry are known through The Economist and The History Channel.

Life 
Ryan was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1974.  He holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.  Ryan currently resides in Northern Virginia with his wife Kidist, and three children. As a motivational trainer, Ryan was included in the book “Lifting the Curtain: the disgrace we call urban high school education”.

Career 
Ryan is the founder and Managing Partner since 2002, of Litmus Logic, LLC, a boutique firm that provides expertise in security and privacy,  cyber defense, trust strategies and Internet technologies. He serves as Chief Strategy Officer for the Cyber Security Summit,  and the Minnesota Innovation Lab, a State-level economic development organization. Ryan was one of the experts who contributed to  The Economics of Digital Identity,  a 2015 technical report published by The Economist Intelligence Unit.  From 1993 to 1997, he was a software engineer at TRW; from 1997 to 1998, a system engineer at Lockheed Martin; from 1998 to 1999, a security and network expert at Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent); from 1999 to 2002, a  principal consultant and security and network expert at Predictive Systems.

Ryan who has knowledge in cyber security and trust framework, consults with governments, defense and financial institutions, software and Cloud providers, The United States Department of Defense (DoD) and civil agencies. He spoke at the United States Department of Defense Cyber Crime conference, Robotics Alley, the Cyber Security Summit and Security360. Topics of his speeches included success with cyber security, Public key infrastructure (PKI), Internet of Things, cyber security for robotics and artificial intelligence, and National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.

Works 
Ryan has collaborated with NASA and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in creating the Identity Credential and Access Management (ICAM) segment architecture, the Personal Identity Verification – Interoperable (PIV-I) trust framework, a new approach to access control that uses Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). He was featured together with Oliver North in the History Channel program “America’s Book of Secrets: The Pentagon” in March 2012.

References

External links
 Ryan at Cyber Security Summit 2017
 Founder of Litmus Logic

1974 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Anchorage, Alaska
American technology company founders
American technology chief executives
People associated with computer security
Virginia Tech alumni
Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics. The Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC; ) is one of the leading research institutes in Russia. Located in St. Petersburg, it specializes in software and hardware development, and in robotics and technical cybernetics.

Special design bureau for technical cybernetics  was formed on the base of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University on January 29, 1968. In June 1981, the bureau was transformed into the RTC.

RTC participated in the development of the soft landing control system for the spacecraft Soyuz and the robotic probe Luna 16. In 1986–1987, the institute created mobile robots for radiation reconnaissance and liquidation of Chernobyl accident consequences. In the early 1990s the institute participated in the development of the manipulator for the spacecraft Buran.

References

External links
 

Research institutes in Russia
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
1968 establishments in the Soviet Union
Research institutes established in 1968
Pelegrin Tarragon. The Tarragon is a Latvian ultralight aircraft that is produced by Pelegrin LTD since 2012. Tarragon aircraft is tailor-made to each customer, is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
Named for the herb, the Tarragon was developed from the Millennium Master after the manufacturer of that design went bankrupt. The Tarragon ULM sports aircraft has been developed by Pelegrin LTD in conjunction with CFM Air.

The Tarragon was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a cantilever low-wing, an enclosed cockpit with two-seats-in-tandem under a bubble canopy, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The Tarragon's airframe is fully made from pre-preg carbon fibre composites. Its  span wing mounts flaps. Standard engines available are the  EPA Power SA-R917TNi ULM, the  Rotax 912ULS and Rotax 912iS, the turbocharged  Rotax 914, the  Rotax 915 iS and the  EPA Power SA917Ti Turbo Injection four-stroke powerplants.

In mid-2014 the Latvian ultralight certification was pending.

In 2020 it set an unofficial world speed record for ultralight airplanes at .

Operators

Latvian Air Force - two acquired in late 2022 for training.

Specifications (Tarragon)

See also
Blackshape Prime, another design derived from the Millennium Master

References

External links

Tarragon
2010s Latvian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
LeGrand Van Uitert. LeGrand Van Uitert (May 8, 1922 in Salt Lake City – June 3, 1999 in Morristown, New Jersey) was an American scientist who co-invented the first continuous beam optical MASER, now known as a laser, using a synthetic rare-earth doped garnet crystal. U.S. patent applications for the invention of the continuous wave optical MASER were filed on August 7, 1961, and issued as U.S. Patent Nos. 3,174,938 (March 23, 1965) and 3,177,154 (April 6, 1965).

In 1964, Van Uitert, Joseph E. Geusic, and H. W. Marcos demonstrated lasing in Nd-Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd:YAG), which would become the dominant solid state laser.

Academic career
Van Uitert pursued undergraduate studies at George Washington University, earning a Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) degree in chemistry in 1949, and graduate studies at Pennsylvania State University, where he earned a Master's of Science (M. Sc.) degree in chemistry in 1951, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in 1952.

Van Uitert was employed as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs) as a chemist, materials scientist, and crystal grower in the Basic Research division.  Van Uitert developed new materials and contributed to the development of new device technologies enabled by these materials in the areas of magnetic, optical, and electro-optical telecommunications, memory storage, and displays.  

Van Uitert remained at Bell Labs for his entire career, as an active research scientist as he was promoted to Supervisor, Solid-State Materials Synthesis Group.  In 1966, Van Uitert and Geusic were awarded a patent for the Nd: YAG laser.

Van Uitert was the inventor on 82 U.S. patents issued by the USPTO from 1961 to 1991.  Van Uitert was supported in his research by Assistant Member of Technical Staff, George John Zydzik, listed as a co-inventor on 17 patents from 1976 to 1991. 

In 1975, Van Uitert was awarded the Howard N. Potts Medal by The Franklin Institute for the “discovery and development of ferrites for microwaves.”  In 1977, Van Uitert was awarded the IRI Achievement Award by the Industrial Institute of America. In 1981, Van Uitert was elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering,  Also in 1981, Van Uitert was awarded the James N. McGroddy Award for New Materials by the American Physical Society “for the discovery and development of a series of materials of fundamental significance in magnetic and optical technologies, including Microwave Ferrites, Garnets for bubble domain memory devices, and lasers, Orthovanadate phosphors, Niobates and Molybdates for electroptical devices and Borosilicate glasses for optical wave guides." In 1993, Van Uitert and Geusic were awarded the R. W. Wood Prize by the Optical Society of America “for the discovery of the Nd:YAG laser and the demonstration of its usefulness as a practical solid state laser source.”

References

Further reading

External links
 NAE Website - Dr. Le Grand Van Uitert

1922 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American engineers
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences alumni
Eberly College of Science alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Scientists from Salt Lake City
Apix, Florida. Apix, Florida was a former rocket testing facility created as part of Project Suntan during the Space Race, including a fake town in Palm Beach County, Florida, the primary feature of which was an alleged fertilizer plant set among the surrounding swamplands. Very little details have been revealed about the rocket testing facility.

Background and overview

Background
Starting in 1945, there was heavy research into hydrogen as a fuel source. The Air Force wanted to create a faster plane for spying than the U-2.

Overview and Alleged Location
In 1956, Pratt and Whitney along with the United States Air Force decided to buy a 10 square mile piece of land in Western Palm Beach County, and development plans included a main street called Hawthorn Road surrounded by housing plats (lots). 

Apix was alleged to exist several miles west of Jupiter, near the intersection of the western terminus of West Indiantown Road and State Road 710 on the Beeline Highway. Apix never had a downtown area, post office, population, or government. Apix appeared on some contemporary maps from 1959 and 1960; one map listed "Apix" alongside location markers for the Pratt & Whitney plant, William R. Gwinn Airport, and Palm Beach Racetrack.

Security
At the time, the western part of Palm Beach County was sparsely populated. Authorities said it was a fertilizer producing town to cover up the operation so that residents would not be suspicious. The name Apix meant Air Products Inc, Experimental. There was also commercial protection to make sure that potential speculators and buyers stayed clear. Land nearby was also platted and had a census marker. Pratt & Whitney bought 9,000 acres near what would today be the J.W. Corbett Wildlife Refuge. For buyers to not know it was United Aircraft (now United Technologies) a third party had bought a ranch and gave it to the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission which then was given to the U.S. Air Force.

Testing
The project's main goal was to test liquid hydrogen as a fuel source for rockets which had been in interest of the United States government since the late 1940s. Apix was part of what was called Project Suntan that was carried out in extreme secrecy from 1956–1958. The plant could liquefy Hydrogen at approximately rate of a half a ton a day, costing $6.2 million a day ($53,580,135.23 in 2017) and would be transported in an underground pipeline to a testing facility.  A second plant was built in 1959 and had a capacity of 30 tons and cost about $27 million. In February 1959 the managers had decided that transporting liquid hydrogen in the underground pipeline took too much energy and decided to close it. Instead, they decided to ship hydrogen in insulated tanks on the Beeline Highway.

Present

As of 2024, Pratt & Whitney still has an active campus on site, along with Aerojet Rocketdyne.

References 

Science and technology in Florida
Palm Beach County, Florida
NASA
Ying Zou. Ying Zou is a Canadian computer scientist. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University and a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Software Evolution. She was awarded the IBM CAS Research Faculty Fellow of the Year in 2014 and the IBM Faculty Award in 2007 and 2008.

Education 
Zou has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) degree from Beijing Polytechnic University, a Masters of Engineering (M.Eng) degree from the Chinese Academy of Space Technology, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Career 
Zou is a professor and the lead of the Software Evolution and Analytic Lab (SEAL) at Queen's University. 

Her research interest includes Software Engineering, Software Evolution, Software Analytics, Software Empirical Studies and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

References

Living people
Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
Canadian computer scientists
University of Waterloo alumni
Canadian people of Chinese descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
Peter T. Cummings. Peter T. Cummings is an Australian-American chemical engineer, currently the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate dean for research for the school of engineering at Vanderbilt University. He formerly held positions at the University of Virginia and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Between 1994 and 2013, Cummings was associated with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He was one of the four researchers who wrote the proposal to establish ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Division (CNMS). From 2007 to 2013, he served as the principal scientist for the CNMS.

His research interests include statistical mechanics, computational materials engineering, and theoretical nanoscience using molecular modeling techniques such as molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations.

References

1954 births
Living people
University of Melbourne alumni
University of Newcastle (Australia) alumni
Australian chemical engineers
American chemical engineers
Vanderbilt University faculty
Chemical engineering academics
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Weihua Zhang. Weihua Zhang is a Canadian electrical engineer, currently a Canada Research Chair at University of Waterloo and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Canadian Academy of Engineering and Engineering Institute of Canada. From 2007 to 2013, she was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Canadian electrical engineers
University of New Brunswick alumni
The SWARM Project. The Smartly-assembled Wiki-style Argument Marshalling (SWARM) Project is a research project, looking at how human reasoning can be improved. The project is based at the University of Melbourne, and is developing and testing a cloud-based platform and methods aimed at fundamental advancing in reasoning performance through crowdsourcing. The SWARM Project is part of the Crowdsourcing Evidence, Argumentation, Thinking and Evaluation (CREATE) Program managed by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.

References 
{Charm}

External links 
 Official website

University of Melbourne
Research projects
Bangladesh Bridge Authority. The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) is a statutory government body responsible for the construction and maintenance of bridges, tunnels, flyovers (elevated roads), overpasses, causeways, and subways in Bangladesh. It is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The authority operates under the purview of the Bridges Division within the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges.

Background
In 1985, the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Authority was established by a presidential ordinance to construct the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge (now Bangabandhu Bridge). On 19 December 2007, the organization underwent a name change and became known as the Bangladesh Bridge Authority. According to  the Bangladesh Bridge Authority Act of 2016, the authority is tasked with the implementation and maintenance of various infrastructure projects, including bridges spanning 1,500 meters or more, toll roads, flyovers, expressways, tunnels, causeways, ring roads, and other similar structures.

The agency is responsible for the implementation of the Padma Bridge. In the mid-2010s, it was involved in the Padma Bridge Corruption Scandal. However, the charges was later dismissed by both the Canadian court and Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission.

Ongoing projects
 Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project
 Support to Dhaka Elevated Expressway project
 Dhaka Elevated Expressway Project
 Construction of Multi Lane Road Tunnel under the River Karnaphuli
 Greater Dhaka Sustainable Urban Transport Project (BRT, Gazipur-Airport)
 Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway Project
 Feasibility Study Project for Subway Construction in Dhaka City
 Sajek Road Link Project- II Upgradation of Alenga-Hatikamrul-Rangpur Highway to Four Lanes (Bangladesh Bridge Authority Part -34 Kilometers)
 Dhaka Subway
 Master Plan and Feasibility Study Project for 6 Bridges
 Patuakhali-Amtali-Barguna-Kakichira road (R-880) Bridge Construction on Pigeon River
 Construction of Bridge on Bakerganj-Baupal Upazila Road (Z8806 & 8044) Factory River
 Bachcharanpur road (R-203) Bridge Construction on the Meghna River
 Construction of Bridge over Tetulia and Kalbadar River on Barisal-Bhola Road
 Patuakhali-Amtali-Barguna-Kakichira road (R-880) Bridge on the Bishkhali River

References

Government agencies of Bangladesh
Organisations based in Dhaka
Bridges in Bangladesh
Arialah-class offshore patrol vessel. The Arialah class are patrol boats for the United Arab Emirates Critical Infrastructure and Coastal Protection Agency (CICPA). Two ships are planned for this class.

Description
The class was designed by Damen Group, based on its "sea axe" design. The hull was constructed at Damen's Galați shipyard in Romania, with fit out by Abu Dhabi Ship Building and systems integration by Thales Group.

History
The contract was originally awarded in December 2013. The lead ship Arialah (P6701) was handed over to CICPA on 21 February 2017 and commissioned the same year. The second off-shore patrol boat in the class, Hmeem (P6702), was commissioned a year later in 2018.

Ships in class

Gallery

See also
 United Arab Emirates Navy

References

External links
 Abu Dhabi Ship Building
 Arialah Class (6711 OPV)
 Strange-looking UAE Warship with ‘Sea Axe Bow’ Draws Attention at IDEX 2017
 Arialah

Patrol boat classes
Naval ships of the United Arab Emirates
Jayne Bryant (engineer). Jayne Bryant  FWES, is Engineering Director for BAE Systems, Applied Intelligence.  She has over 40 years’ experience in engineering.

Early life and education 
Bryant was educated at Maidstone Girls Grammar School, when she decided on a career in software engineering. She began working for Marconi Avionics as a trainee software engineer, undertaking a day release HNC Computing course at Medway College and after two years was offered the opportunity to do an Advanced Avionics Computing Certificate course, which ran for a further year. By the time Bryant completed her training she has a team of 12 graduates working for her.

Career 
Bryant's career as a Software Engineer grew into software management, becoming responsible for a major software development with over 300 engineers before she reached 30.  From that point on, her scope increased beyond software and took a more general Engineering and Project Management direction.

Bryant continued to progress through roles with various defence organisations including Chief Engineer at GEC - Marconi Avionics Maritime Aircraft Systems Division; Head of Engineering Strategy and CMMI at SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems; Engineering Director for BAE Systems, Platform Solutions at Rochester, chair of the EPWG (Engineering Process Working Group) at BAE Systems Performance Excellence and Engineering Director for BAE Systems Defence Information.

Bryant heads up a team of 1400 engineers as Engineering Director for BAE Systems, Applied Intelligence.

Bryant's career is highlighted in the publication "Championing Women Leaders".

Awards 

 Fellow of the IET June 2005 
 Fellow of WES in May 2015
 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in July 2010 
 Served on the IET Board of Trustees.
 Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering in the UK by the Daily Telegraph and Women's Engineering Society (WES) 2016

Personal life 
Bryant is married and has adult triplets.

External links
Jayne Bryant (née Wood) interview in 1981 film ‘’What’s a girl like you? Women in engineering’’ from 18:33

References 

Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century British engineers
21st-century British women engineers
20th-century British engineers
20th-century British women engineers
Pakpatan Hydropower Plant. The Pakpattan Hydropower Plant () is a small hydro, low head project of 4.2 metres, located in the Pakpattan District on the Upper Chenab Canal, in Punjab, Pakistan. It is approximately 245 km from the provincial capital of Lahore.

The total electricity generation capacity of the Pakpattan Hydropower Plant is 2.82 MW.

Financing
Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided a loan of US$28.435 million from July 2009 onwards to complete the  works on the project. The total cost of the project is estimated to be PKR 3.3 billion.

Construction
Power House is in commercial operation since 25 March 2017. The Chinese firm handed over the Project to PPDCL on 8 March 2017.

Dam:
Type: Small hydro
Design Discharge: 2800 Cusecs
Design Head: 4.2 m.

See also 

 List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan
 List of power stations in Pakistan
 Marala Hydropower Project
 Chianwali Dam
 Deg Outfall  Dam
 Duber Khwar hydropower project

References 

Dams completed in 2012
Energy infrastructure completed in 2012
Dams in Pakistan
Hydroelectric power stations in Pakistan
Dams in the Indus River basin
Run-of-the-river power stations
Blohm & Voss P 214. The Blohm & Voss P 214 was a small manned interceptor project described as a  Bemannte Fla. Bombe (Fla. standing for Flugabwehr), meaning "Manned Air Defence Bomb".
It was studied late in 1944 but not developed past the project stage.

No design description or drawing of the airframe is known to exist, and contemporary knowledge of it comes only from a few pages of operational discussion and performance graphs. Even the type of propulsion is not known.

Misidentifications 

The P 214 has in the past been misidentified as the MGRP composite design proposed by Karl Stöckel at the DVL. An exhibit displayed at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia is claimed to be a replica.

Other authors have stated that it was one of the series of outboard-tail "batwing" projects studied by B&V during 1944-45.

Specifications

See also

References

P 214
Abandoned military aircraft projects of Germany
World War II jet aircraft of Germany