...commercialized, and similar turbines have sprung up throughout the circumpolar north.But these technologies aren't just plug-and play. NASA created them to work in the final frontier, not the Last Frontier.To reconfigure them to fit Alaska's...

...arctic spill - an indication that it just hasn't absorbed the lesson of the Gulf: the need for an effective, plug-and-play fallback plan in the event of a disaster. "If the Exxon Valdez and the Gulf teach us anything," says Alaska marine...

...largely as a support hub for missions in Afghanistan, Hart said. That troops can be swapped out is the result of "plug and play" training that keeps the forces ready to operate at any time with any airmen, he said. The high volunteer rate is...