Sentences with phrase «lockheed skunkworks»

Wynne has been working with the technology for over a decade, including a stint leading a skunkworks engineering team at HP.

But some of its most innovative ideas came from a Toronto skunkworks

One of the most innovative media partnerships so far was spurred by a skunkworks project that Schmidt, the media group manager, created for ESPN's X Games.

The engineers showed her a curiosity that had been seasoning in their skunkworks since 2003.

Ian McDonald, director of the skunkworks, shares TD's three principles of innovation:

As big firms in sectors like pharma increasingly fret over the overhead of internal skunkworks, says Tam, they are drawn to the «unbelievable» potential cost - savings of the open approach.

Self - driving cars, contact lens that measure blood sugar, and giant balloons that beam Internet connections to everyone below are just some of the so - called moonshots that have emerged from the secretive skunkworks, known as X.

«I have seen people manage it by always having at least one project they are passionate about, even if it's an after - hours, skunkworks kind of project to which they devote only a few hours per week.

There is no greater creative cauldron than the skunkworks of academia.

Nike runs a skunkworks for advanced manufacturing in Oregon, and in 2015 announced a partnership with Flex, one of its manufacturing partners, to develop new tech.

Invisible in both of these performances are the many kinds of knowledge, unseen plans, and backstage moves — the skunkworks, if you will — that allow a teacher to purposefully move a group of students from one set of understandings and skills to quite another over the space of many months.»

Ultimately, skunkworks may lead, over time, to a shift in the opportunity and achievement gaps prevalent in schools, leverage student voice, increase the use of higher impact strategies, shift staff and department meeting agendas to focus more time on learning, and begin developing new forms of problem - solving across a system that focuses primarily on learning.

To begin, skunkworks groups should focus more on learning than teaching and use evaluation of their impact on learning on all students as their driver for decision making.

How would one scale the skunkworks «ideation into action» approach across a school and within a system?

As for the internal combustion engine, it comes straight from Mercedes - AMG High Performance Powertrains, the Brixworth, England - based skunkworks team that builds Mercedes» F1 powerplants.

Throw in the freedom afforded by low - volume runs of factory - built skunkworks specials and you find that the hot hatch is enjoying a golden age.

And at that point the idea to go back to Le Mans with a Mustang was canned, and replaced with a top secret skunkworks — Project Silver — to build an all - new GT to take to Le Mans, plus a corresponding road car to go with it.

We suspect Jaguar won't ponder too long before handing an F - pace to their skunkworks SVO division to restore balance in the performance game with an an R or SVR version.

For the first board, Land Rover teamed up with Northern Ireland's Skunkworks Surf Co. and English pro surfer Lucy Campbell, the current English Open Champion.

Toyota's skunkworks recently worked its magic on the Yaris GRMN, a new supercharged hot hatch that was launched earlier this year in Europe.

Speaking to our sister title Auto Express, boss of Mercedes in - house skunkworks AMG, Tobias Moers, has revealed the replacement for the range - topping A-class will see power eclipse 400bhp.

I've known Turner for years and first met him when he was at Lotus (he had two stints at the Norfolk company), where he worked on the Corvette ZR1 engine, Lotus's own V8 and numerous skunkworks projects, including a test engine nicknamed Omnivore for its ability to run on virtually any fuel, and an optical engine that allowed the combustion process to be observed through a transparent cylinder.

For Subaru Tecnica International, the automaker's skunkworks, the Subaru BRZ STI Concept is a showcase to display its engineering aptitude.

Lockheed Martin has Skunkworks, Aston Martin has Q, and Jaguar Land Rover now has the Special Operations division for creating exclusive special - order cars.

«When you look at the infotainment and navigation, it's unique to Alfa — it was part of the skunkworks process and we didn't want to bring mass - market technology into the next generation of Alfa Romeo,» explains Bigland.

Waraniak is equally at home in an aerospace skunkworks in Pico Rivera, California, a boardroom in Mumbai, India, on a motocross track in Buchanan, Michigan, or on the Vehicle Technology Center stage at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas.

An Alfa Skunkworks of engineers, designers and stylists has developed a new rear - wheel - / all - wheel - drive platform called Giorgio for the models.

Mercedes is looking to show up in Detroit with several new semi-performance models hot off the presses from its skunkworks division, AMG.

The new skunkworks division is already tasked with creating 12 new performance models in the next five years, possibly including the new Focus RS, the Fiesta ST, and F - 150 Raptor.

Other info coming from the interview suggested that Kia is contemplating adding a skunkworks division to produce performance models, like Toyota's TRD, Ford's SVT or Mercedes - Benz's AMG.

Only 250 will be made by Jaguar's Special Vehicle Operations skunkworks with deliveries scheduled to commence in mid-2015.

Jaguar Land Rover's Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) division sounds very much like a clandestine organization secretly engineering skunkwork projects that would make the SR71 Blackbird look quaint in comparison.

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Ford said its Performance skunkworks developed the Winter Wheel & Tire Package so the most demanding Focus customers can be properly outfitted for winter driving conditions.

It's a special skunkworks race concept that will be shared with attendees to the SEMA Show tomorrow, November 1st.

This hot - rod version of Jaguar's XE small sedan is one of those rare cars that focuses purely on performance, and the team at Jag's Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) skunkworks doesn't seem to want to let it go.

Instead of throwing a lot of go - quick goodies into a Golf, the VW skunkworks had its way with a Jetta.

The two Italian premium brands are intimately connected, with the Alfa Romeo engineering skunkworks responsible for the development of the rear - drive Giulia architecture based inside Maserati's Modena headquarters complex.

Rather than some skunkworks project, the B - Class Electric Drive felt like a finished car ready for the showroom floor.

The skunkworks project kicked off shortly after the Trailblazer's launch in 2002.

Once in a blue moon, Corvette celebrates its heritage by giving us the Grand Sport — a model that started out as a skunkworks project behind GMs back to make a standard «Vette race - ready.

Chrysler may have its back against the wall, but that hasn't stopped its SRT skunkworks team churning out what is easily the most politically incorrect — and, as a result, wonderfully desirable — ...

After showing off this HP «slate» at CES in 2010 (which never shipped), and having a promising skunkworks tablet project «Courier» go to junk, Microsoft is in trouble.

Amazon is planning on increasing the number of researchers and developers at its Lab126 skunkworks.

These teams were a Skunkworks group headed by Tatsuo Yamamoto, who was a researcher at International Business Machines, and the second team was led by Hideki Sato, a hardware engineer at Sega.

Yamamoto and his Skunkworks group also opted for the SH4, but with 3dfx hardware.

We're not just doing this because we saw what happened with Double Fine Adventure, Wasteland 2, and the other oldies around here that are making great comebacks; we were already working on Carmageddon: Reincarnation as a skunkworks project.

SMG is the «skunkworks» indie studio for the Soap Creative.

This program, originally begun in 2005 within their outdoor styles, has moved beyond its skunkworks phase and is being steadily introduced across the line of more mainstream footwear.

Photograph 11: Building Science Corp «Skunkworks» Exposure Facility — To test tape resistance to UV and heat and rain we stick them outside for years and watch them.