Carter Announces New Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Hub

摘要

Defense Secretary Ash Carter last week announced the Obama administration's plans to award a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Hybrid Electronics to a consortium of 162 companies, universities and nonprofits led by the FlexTech Alliance based in Silicon Valley, according to a Defense Department statement. Carter made the announcement Aug. 29 at Moffet Field in Mountain View, CA, home to DOD's newly established Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx. "The emerging flexible hybrid electronics sector promises to revolutionize the electronics industry, and the Silicon Valley-based FlexTech Alliance consortium, backed by companies as diverse as Apple and Lockheed Martin and major research universities including Stanford and MIT, represents the next chapter in the long-standing public-private partnerships between the Pentagon and tech community," according to DOD.