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GE Global Research The GE Store for Technology Contents 2 Materials 5 Manufacturing 10 Industrial Internet 15 Energy Welcome to GE Global Research, also known as the GE Store for Technology. Across our global network of nine technology centers, we have more than 3,600 of the world’s best scientists and engineers driving advanced technologies for all of GE’s industrial businesses. They are part of a global team of 50,000 technologists across the company driving GE’s future every day. At Global Research, our scientists and engineers don’t work for one business; they work for all of them. Their skills and expertise are applied wherever they’re needed. Over time, they get exposure to projects with different GE businesses that allow them to readily transfer technical knowledge from one business to another. It’s part of every GE researcher’s DNA to think and act in this way. The GE Store is a place where every business can come for technologies, product development and services that no one else can provide. The work of our researchers ties directly into the operational plans and product roadmaps of our businesses. GE business leaders meet with our technical leaders once every quarter to review their portfolios. What you will see and read about in the following pages are key examples of the connections being made through the GE Store and their value to our businesses. At Global Research, we rarely ever start from square one on a new project. It was early testing of ceramic matrix composite (CMC) parts in Power Water’s land-based gas turbines in the early 2000s that helped us realize these parts could work in our jet engines for Aviation. The improved efficiency these parts enable is a big reason why our newest engine platform, the CFM LEAP, is the fastest selling engine in GE Aviation’s history. The story of CMCs is one of many across our portfolio that illustrate the knowledge, experience and broad scien