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Echodyne opens $40M radar factory near Seattle to meet booming demand for drone detection

Echodyne is opening an 86,350-square-foot manufacturing and operations hub in nearby Woodinville, Wash., that it says will eventually be able to produce more than 2,500 radars each month or roughly 30,000 radars annually. Read More

Sen. Maria Cantwell and L3Harris program manager Brent Urke looking at model of Orion crew vehicle

Milestone moon mission is getting a push from Pacific Northwest tech

As NASA prepares for Artemis 2 launch, senator tours hotspots in the ‘Silicon Valley of space.’ Read More

Sen. Maria Cantwell at congressional hearing

Sen. Maria Cantwell releases report citing NASA whistleblowers’ concerns about budget cuts

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., today released a report that quotes NASA whistleblowers as saying they’ve “already seen safety impacts”… Read More

States retain power to regulate AI as Senate approves amendment led by Cantwell

In a decisive 99-1 vote early Tuesday morning, the U.S. Senate struck down a provision that would have banned states… Read More

Spokane’s aerospace Tech Hub loses $48M federal grant, sparking regional outcry

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has blocked $48 million in federal funding for an advanced aerospace materials test bed in Spokane,… Read More

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: ChatGPT will ‘probably not’ replace Google as top search engine

A U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on American AI competitiveness this morning stretched for more than three hours — long enough… Read More

Sen. Cantwell pushes for ‘technology NATO’ as one way to counter China rather than tariffs

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) said the Trump administration’s tariff policies will be especially harmful to Washington state and that innovation… Read More

Washington state getting $57M to boost digital equity initiatives, add zero-emission school buses

A number of grants announced this week by the Washington State Dept. of Commerce and Sen. Maria Cantwell’s office total… Read More

Group14 lands $200M grant to build factory to make key ingredient for battery materials

Group14 Technologies announced today that it has received a $200 million grant to build a plant that will produce silane… Read More

Projected 30% spike in electricity demand in 10 years supercharges energy summit in Seattle

After decades of relative stability in the Pacific Northwest’s energy demands, dramatic changes are coming fast. Over the next decade,… Read More

Bipartisan bill aims to bolster AI education and workforce training in the U.S.

Sen. Maria Cantwell introduced new legislation Thursday packed with initiatives to strengthen American education and workforce training in artificial intelligence… Read More

Drawing parallels to post-World War II, Sen. Maria Cantwell says U.S. needs an ‘AI Bill for education’

For the U.S. to maintain a competitive edge in the global artificial intelligence race, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) says there… Read More

TikTok ban faces uncertain fate in Senate; Washington state reps vote against House bill

While the U.S. House overwhelmingly approved a potential ban on the social media app TikTok on Wednesday, the measure now… Read More

Can AI boost clean energy efforts? Tech and policy leaders discuss solutions in Seattle

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Sen. Maria Cantwell met in Seattle on Friday with West Coast tech executives and… Read More

Energy secretary joins Sen. Maria Cantwell in visit to Washington state’s burgeoning battery hub

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee traveled to Eastern Washington Thursday to… Read More

Next-gen battery startup Sila breaks ground on Washington facility with $100M in DOE support

Next-generation battery materials startup Sila broke ground on Wednesday on its first automotive-scale manufacturing facility located in Moses Lake, Wash.… Read More

Sen. Maria Cantwell and AI2's Chris Emura at Future of AI Forum

Tech policy leaders explore new frontiers for supporting (and regulating) AI at forum

ChatGPT and other next-generation strains of artificial intelligence have revolutionized the tech world over the past year, and policymakers are… Read More

Seattle-area Space Summit features NASA leader and hints at new manufacturing institute

Sen. Maria Cantwell and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson met Wednesday at the Washington State Space Summit to hash out what’s… Read More

Bill Nelson announces award to Blue Origin

NASA chief to visit Blue Origin for summit recognizing Seattle’s place in space

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will visit Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture in Kent, Wash., to get a firsthand look… Read More

How Sen. Cantwell used classified briefings to build bipartisan support for historic CHIPS Act

If there’s one thing U.S. senators can likely agree on, it’s that there’s little that they agree about. So how… Read More

Tech Moves: F5 adds cybersecurity vet to board; Icertis hires chief strategy officer; and more

— Marianne Budnik joined the board of directors of Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5. Budnik is currently chief… Read More

Sen. Maria Cantwell says CHIPS Act is ‘unleashing’ response from private sector

Sen. Maria Cantwell likes what she sees so far with the quick reaction from U.S. companies to the CHIPS and… Read More

Sen. Cantwell and Seattle Mayor Harrell to speak at the GeekWire Summit – submit your questions

The annual GeekWire Summit kicks off later this week and we’re really looking forward to conversations with U.S. Sen. Maria… Read More

CHIPS and Science Act, an ‘historic’ investment in U.S. innovation and tech, goes to Biden for approval

The U.S. Senate and House this week approved the CHIPS and Science Act, a bill authorizing $280 billion of spending… Read More

Senators spar over the idea of giving billions to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture for lunar lander program

The tussle over NASA funding for lunar landing systems has touched down in the Senate — with one leading senator… Read More

Tech Moves: Zillow exec Racquel Russell joins Bird’s board; new gig for startup vet Rebecca Lovell

— Zillow’s VP of Partner Success Racquel Russell joined the board of micro-mobility company Bird, known for its scooter sharing… Read More

Sen. Maria Cantwell co-sponsors bill to shield privacy in COVID-19 contact tracing

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is one of the sponsors of bipartisan legislation aimed at ensuring that coronavirus tracing apps protect… Read More

Sen. Maria Cantwell plays a role in drive to keep the space station going until 2030

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., has joined with three other U.S. senators in introducing a NASA authorization bill that aims to… Read More

How tech keeps Seattle’s transit system running — and why more innovation could be coming

Amid a sea of green rectangles on a computer monitor, one had turned red. A RapidRide bus — the red… Read More

Sen. Maria Cantwell and Microsoft President Brad Smith put a Northwest spin on quantum computing

The Pacific Northwest may be known for tech icons like Microsoft and Amazon but when U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.,… Read More