Hybrid Military Technology
An interesting cooperation between American corporations and the best minds of the American Academia was recently published. The cooperation is meant to be the start of an American project to develop innovative technology to be used by the military.
About a week ago, Ashton Carter speaking at NASA’s Ames Research Center announced a funding of $75 million will be given to a consortium of 162 companies, universities and other groups, to develop and manufacture flexible hybrid electronics that can be embedded with sensors and can be bent, twisted, stretched to be able to fit on an aircraft or other platform that will use the technology. Carter said that “Funding for the Obama administration’s newest manufacturing institute would go to the FlexTech Alliance, a consortium of 162 companies, universities and other groups, from Boeing, Apple and Harvard, to Advantest Akron Polymer Systems and Kalamazoo Valley Community College.”
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