Transportation

GE Transportation and its high-tech offerings are on a hot streak. Citing burgeoning U.S. and global demand for its products, GE Transportation announced plans today to open a new manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, that will employ more than 500 workers by 2012 with the potential of up to [...]

China is a key market for GE as it works to increase its non-U.S. sales from 54 percent in 2009 to a target of 60 percent. The agreements in aviation, energy and rail being finalized this week during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington are part of that focus [...]

Global growth: Among the agreements already in place are those for cleaner coal plants, avionics, and high-speed passenger rail in the U.S. — all of which are helping create and support U.S. manufacturing and R&D jobs.

With China experiencing one of the largest rural to urban migrations in history, a number [...]

To see how the new spate of deals with Chinese tech companies are producing jobs in the U.S., look no further than GE Aviation’s engineering hub in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It’s the site of the first round of major work generated from the joint venture GE launched with China’s AVIC [...]

Over the holidays, scientists at GE Global Research provided a closer look at some of their latest technologies with a series of lab videos that featured next-generation LED lights, composite materials for jet engines, and coatings to keep ice off of turbine blades.
The research team has provided another inside look, [...]

This past year was a big one for innovation, but few technologies saw as exponential a rise as the mobile app.
The creative range could be seen among some of our favorites, such as Eureka — the iPad magazine created by The Times of London that takes interactivity to a new [...]

With their sleek profiles and blazing speeds, the bullet trains that may soon be whisking passengers in the U.S. certainly have been turning heads. But when it comes to the latest in high-tech railways, technologies to make freight rail faster, more efficient, and less costly are already in play.
The latest [...]