
The Defense Department’s industrial base office this week awarded two contracts worth a combined $45 million to increase domestic production of printed circuit boards and heavy forging in support of the defense supply chain. Under a $30 million award, California-based TTM Technologies Inc. [TTMI] will acquire advanced manufacturing equipment and develop new ultra-high density circuit board designs that will be integrated in a new 200,000 square foot-plus facility in Syracuse, N.Y., DoD said on Tuesday. “The DoD requires state-of-art advanced…