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SwRI and San Diego Gas & Electric won an R&D 100 Award for the Time REsilient System (TRES), designed to safeguard energy infrastructure, as one of the 100 most significant innovations for 2016. Using inexpensive hardware and sophisticated software, TRES protects critical infrastructure from GPS cyberattacks and maintains the precise, GPS-based time synchronization needed for operations. 

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Image Courtesy of Southwest Research Institute