Rail supplier news from HDR and congatec

HDR has hired Anna Lynn Smith to lead the firm's intercity and high-speed rail practice. She will oversee strategy, client engagement and market positioning primarily for U.S. and Canadian-based markets, HDR officials said in a press release. Smith has more than 30 years of experience working on multimodal infrastructure strategies, including previously at HDR. Most recently, she was vice president of planning and strategy at Amtrak, where she directed the passenger railroad's long-range, five-year and annual initiatives, HDR officials said. Prior to her role at Amtrak, Smith worked on and led intercity passenger-rail projects at HDR. 

congatec has completed IEC 600068 testing for environmental sustainability of its conga-TC675r COM Express Compact Type 6 module, an application-ready embedded module for autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, critical infrastructure, industrial Internet of Things, wayside installations and mission-critical systems, according to a congatec in a press release. A Germany-based computing technology company, congatec's TC675r modulus are based on the 13th generation Intel Core processors and feature extended temperature control, soldered RAM in with-band IBEFF, and operation readiness at 10% to 85% humidity. This allows for them to be used in manned and unmanned rail equipment. The congra-TC675r also addresses the railroad industry's shock and vibration testing requirements, while the IEC 600068 is an international standard for environmental sustainability testing, company officials said.