Sentences with phrase «of skunk works»

Hidden away in the secret depths of the Skunk Works, a Lockheed Martin research team has been working quietly on a nuclear energy concept they believe has the potential to meet, if not eventually decrease, the world's insatiable demand for power.

Monsanto is also the financial backer of a 15 - person company called Preceres, a kind of skunk works it established just off the campus of MIT, where robotic mixers are busy stirring RNA together with coatings of specialized nanoparticles.

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And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of «getting out of the building» and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

By the middle of the 21st century the only companies with skunk works will be the ones that have failed to master continuous innovation.

With the vantage point of the 21st century, we can now see that a successful skunk works — separated from its corporate parent, with its own culture, in control of its own R&D and distribution channel — looked much like a startup.

Skunk works will be the signposts of companies that will be left behind.

Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

That means that somehow we need to take the innovation that a skunk works removed from the core of the company and integrate the two.

«We created SPIDER to allow for inspection of the envelope in parallel with final assembly and maintenance actions,» Skunk Works mechanical engineer Ben Szpak said in the video below.

But a series of smaller, challenging projects — perhaps modeled after prize competitions for developing «disruptive» technologies, or Lockheed Martin's famed «Skunk Works» facility that pioneered futuristic spy planes and supersonic aircraft — could help build esprit de corps, he says.

Steve Justice, TTSA's aerospace division director and former Lockheed Martin engineer who worked on advanced top secret aircraft for the latter company's storied «Skunk Works» division, speculates that in both cases such incredible feats of flight could be due to the objects possessing some sort of warp drive.

Eisenberg plays Mike, a long - haired nerd who works at a convenience store, smokes a lot of skunk weed and suffers from crippling panic attacks.

Once again we get an animal population where all the species work together instead of eating each other, and there is even the possibility of interspecies sex, when a human's house cat falls in love with Stella the skunk (Wanda Sykes).

The strong smells that made their way into the make shift domicile made the Lockheed R&D workers think of the foul - smelling «Skunk Works» factory in Al Capp's Li» l Abner comic strip.

When development of the LFA started in the Toyota skunk works some nine years ago, the idea was to create a new high - end aluminum - spaceframe sports car that would feature a V - 8 or a V - 10 and, most likely, a dual - clutch transmission.

A nondescript building behind a Wellesbourne Sainsbury supermarket contains Q Advanced Operations, a top - secret skunk works where Vulcan was born and which will produce, per CEO Andy Palmer's instruction, similarly bonkers low - volume projects at the rate of around one per year.

Michael Kranefuss, head of the new Special Vehicle Operations skunk works, imports a turbocharged Zakspeed Capri sedan racer from Germany and reskins it as a Mustang.

One particular avenue of development being heavily pursued by Mercedes - Benz's fast - car skunk works is the individual apportioning of torque to each wheel; the process allows AMG to more finely tune the handling of its new supercar than with a typical fixed apportioning of torque.

Sharing a common love for Alfa Romeo and its unique concept of cars as «mechanical creations» which transcend the realm of necessity to verge on that of the most authentic emotions and not just «useful means of transport», the «Skunks» have one goal: to create the Alfa Romeo of the future respecting the heritage resulting from the work and pride of thousands of people - engineers, factory workers and managers - who have taken turns in the factories, offices and on the race tracks.

No, man, not sure who your source was but my source, deep within Amazon Skunk Works, says the next Kindle will be going in the opposite direction... it's about the size of a deck of cards and half the thickness.

There are a number of remedies that work for removing skunk smell from a dog.

Adrienne Kruzer is a Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT) and Level 2 Fear Free Certified Practitioner who has worked with opossums, skunks, ferrets, hedgehogs, chinchillas, reptiles, amphibians, a variety of bird species, coati, foxes, sugar gliders, flying squirrels, degus, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, mice, rats, gerbils, pot bellied pigs, dogs, cats and more.

For many years the application of tomato juice was believed to be the only effective skunk odor remover, however, from first - hand experience it doesn't really work!

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The Main Street area of your town also accommodates new buildings, such as a Gardening Shop run by the happy sloth Leif, Club LOL which is a new nightclub hosted by Dr. Shrunk and DJ K.K., Brewster's Café which replaces The Roost from previous games, Tom Nook's new business scheme endeavor Nook's Homes — which works as a housing remodeling shop — and Kicks, the skunk, now has his own shoe shop appropriately called Kicks.

In her case, the earliest collectors of her work boosted her confidence — and confirmed that her artistic world of stubborn raccoons and bee - sized children, where you might just meet a skunk with a human face staring down a cupcake, was a place that others were eager to visit.

These diverse sects of the natural world combine in ways that are not natural at all — a deer's soft hair appearing as moss in one work while a skunk gallantly balances on top of a hovering botanical bouquet in another.

Is it an extension of the project business or a skunk works project?»

Skunk Works ® is a registered trademark of Lockheed Martin Corporation.

I know we don't say this for the [skunk 00:38:21] works, but I'm very interested in how AI can, again, augment the practice of law.

They will also initiate «Skunk Works» projects in which a small group within the firm is given greater autonomy in the name of rapid innovation.

NASA and Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works are teaming up to create the Low - Boom Flight Demonstrator, an experimental aircraft that aims to usher in the era of commercial supersonic flight.