AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoDefense Tech & Manufacturing: L3Harris opened a $6M, 50,000-square-foot maritime production facility at ProvPort in Providence to design and build undersea training systems for the U.S. Navy and allied forces, expanding on its Ashaway undersea sensor and sonar work. Local Research & Biosecurity: URI biocontrol researchers are studying a China-native parasitic wasp to help curb the invasive spotted lanternfly, aiming for a pesticide-free approach by targeting the insect in its nymph stage. AI & Public Life: Axios is testing whether AI can help sustain local news by launching new Axios Local newsletters funded by OpenAI, with OpenAI also using the coverage to train its models. Privacy Tech: Flock Safety has seen municipalities cancel or decline renewals of automated license plate reader contracts over data ownership and privacy concerns, adding to the Rhode Island debate around surveillance cameras. Health Tech: A study using nursing-home health records links shingles vaccination with a lower dementia risk in older adults, with Brown and Rhode Island Hospital among collaborators. STEM Spotlight: URI computer engineering professor Ken Qing Yang’s FastFlowLM team has joined AMD, bringing software aimed at making AI workloads run more efficiently on modern chips.
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