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The University of Utah and XPRIZE are exploring incentive competitions as a model for tackling Utah challenges, including Great Salt Lake restoration, minerals, climate innovation, healthspan, and research commercialization, connecting researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, industry and government.

Utah’s $5 million AI Moonshot program will fund research addressing challenges in mental health, water, healthcare and autonomous systems, with university-sponsored proposals due October 15.

Hypercraft (Provo, UT) unveiled its Razorback autonomous ground vehicle at a West Jordan briefing with Fortem, Base Case, and 47G, pairing a software-defined UGV platform with Fortem's counter-drone payload amid Utah's fast-growing aerospace and defense sector.

A hybrid-electric aircraft from Ampaire (Long Beach, CA) completes a demonstration flight across Utah as part of UDOT's uFLY initiative. The flight is helping evaluate how next-generation aircraft can safely operate within today's aviation system while reducing fuel consumption and emissions

Nuclea Energy signed an MOU to explore siting a lead-cooled test reactor at Utah's San Rafael Energy Lab in Emery County, a technology with no existing Western Hemisphere precedent.

AlphaTech Research Corp (American Fork, UT) CEO Matt Memmott delivered the keynote at Weber County's nuclear symposium, using safety data, a radiation-as-weightlifting analogy, and a deep-aquifer desalination case study to build public support for molten salt reactors in Utah.

Weber County and the Utah Office of Energy Development hosted a grassroots nuclear symposium in Ogden, bringing together industry, regulators, policy-makers, and educators to inform and explore possibilities for potential nuclear energy development in Utah.

DHS named Fortem Technologies (Lindon, UT) the only small business among seven prime contractors on a five-year, $1B+ counter-drone IDIQ. CEO Jon Gruen discusses the win, subcontractors Lockheed Martin and Microsoft, and plans to scale Utah manufacturing.