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Research and Development and Government and Industry Funded Contracts (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Government and Industry Funded Contracts [Abstract]
Research and development expense	$ 173	$ 6,737	$ 3,554
DOE funding	821	1,375	1,756
Industry cost-share funding	0	0	277
Research and development expense, net	(648)	5,362	1,521
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Asset impairment charges	$ 520	2,087	$ 355
ADA Analytics Israel, LLC
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Asset impairment charges		$ 1,900

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Research and Development Arrangement with Federal Government, Industry Cost-Share Funding

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Amount of write-down of assets recognized in the income statement. Includes, but is not limited to, losses from tangible assets, intangible assets and goodwill.

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The net amount of research and development costs incurred for a fixed-price, best-efforts research and development cost-sharing arrangement with the Federal Government.

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The amount of customer funding recorded as an offset to costs incurred for a fixed-price, best-efforts research and development cost-sharing arrangement with the Federal Government.

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