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LaserMotive Names President, Ops VP

Kent, Washington-based LaserMotive, a firm providing research and development into lasers, said Thursday that it has named Tom Nugent, a co-founder of the firm, as President, and David Bashford as Vice President of Operations for the firm. LaserMotive is developing laser power beaming technology, which is being applied to unmanned aerial vehicles and space-based energy systems. The firm said that Nugent was previously at LiftPort Group, and also worked at MIT and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bashford was previously at Philips Oral Healthcare/Soniccare, and also worked at Coinstar. LaserMotive recently won $900,000 in a NASA contest to use lasers to power a robot to climb a cable suspended from a helicopter. That contest, the NASA Space Elevator contest, is part of an effort to spur R&D into laser power beaming.


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