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| House
Defense Appropriations subcommittee approves funding for DOD mobile
technology-Direct Liquid Ethanol Delivery System
Publication date: 13-August-2003 |
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| A House Defense Appropriations subcommittee has set aside $14 million
to further develop the Defense Department’s research and testing of battlefield
situational awareness and power source technology through the next year,
a subcommittee official said yesterday.
Of the $14 million in appropriations, $3 million would be allocated to the Direct Liquid Ethanol Delivery System, a project to develop fuel cell alternatives to battery power in the battlefield. Two Companies that are partnering on this project are Itronix and General Dynamics Corp. "The ethanol fuel cell technology could produce up to 10 times the electrical power that batteries can for significantly less weight," said Chris Marzilli, vice president and general manager for commercial hardware systems for General Dynamics C4 Systems Inc., a business unit of General Dynamics Corp. Total funding is still pending approval from the Senate. One company involved in the development of a Direct Liquid Ethanol Fuel Cell is Medis Technologies. Medis recently announced they and General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD - News), had signed an agreement for Medis to design and develop a pre-production prototype of Medis' fuel cell Power Pack for the ruggedized personal digital assistant (PDA) system that General Dynamics is developing for the military.
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