Posts Tagged ‘Pentagon’

(The Pentagon is) BEGGIN! BEGGIN YOU-OO-OO-OOO (for A New Weaponized Laser Design)

August 2nd, 2010 by Jim
Posted in Department of Defense, Laser, Military and Defense Light

With all of the change that's taken place in life over the last few months, it's sometimes been hard to pay full attention to the one thing in my existence that I am the most passionate about - different varieties of light! This weekend I spent an entire day searching through my RSS feeds, scouring the web for information on topics I'm passionate about, and researching the status of projects across several industries. OLED research, chemical and gas laser development, LED substrate technology, and about eleventy thousand other topics got my full attention this weekend.Returning to some level of sanity ... Read More»

Tags: development, laser weapons, lasers, Pentagon, R+D, weaponized light, weapons
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Cree’s LR6 LED Recessed Lamp Wins an IDEA Award

February 19th, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Architectural Lighting, Civil and Infrastructure Lighting, Environmentally Friendly Design, Industry News, LEDs, Lighting and the Environment

The LED company that just sold a ton of LED fixtures to the Pentagon won a silver in the International Design Excellence Award (IDEA)'s EcoDesign contest this year. Cree seems to be on a roll! After that sale of over 4200 fixtures at around $380 a pop to the Pentagon, it seems they're doing quite well.The source that scored a silver - the LR6 LED Recessed Downlight - has around 50% less energy usage than a compact fluorescent and 85% less than an incandescent. At a whopping 12W, it's a pretty great package. If I had $380, I'd buy one.Again, ... Read More»

Tags: Cree, IDEA, IDEA 2008, LED, LR6, Pentagon
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Cree’s LEDs and the Pentagon

January 23rd, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Architectural Lighting, Civil and Infrastructure Lighting, Environmentally Friendly Design, Fluorescent Technology, LEDs, Lamps and Sources, Lighting Technology, Lighting and the Human Element, Military and Defense Light

Major LED manufacturer Cree was just awarded a contract to replace a whole ton of fluorescent fixtures in the Pentagon for their LED fixtures - more than 4200 recessed lighting fixtures, to be exact. The Cree LED fixtures that the Pentagon contracted for purchase retain at about $380 a pop. These fixtures, referred to as LR24's, have created energy savings of somewhere in the neighborhood of 22% in government testing. Apparently (from the source at the US DoE) LEDs saved the government around 8.7 trillion bucks in 2007.So, 4200 X $380 = $1,596,000, right? Probably not. But wow.Pentagon test room ... Read More»

Tags: cfl, Cree, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, LED, Pentagon, Title III, US Government
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