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Pentagon Invests $75 Million Into Flexible Electronics Initiative

Valerie Insinna

Friday, August 28th, 2015

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Pentagon Invests $75 Million Into Flexible Electronics Initiative

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter addresses the U.S. Cyber Command workforce at Fort Meade, Md. on March 13. Photo: U.S. Department of Defense.

The Pentagon is sinking $75 million over the next five years into the development of flexible hybrid electronics that could yield increasingly advanced wearable devices, improved health monitoring systems or better sensors.The initiative, announced on Friday by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter during his trip to Silicon Valley, pulls together a consortium of 162 companies, universities and non-profit organizations, which will bring $90 million of their own funds to the table.The Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) for Flexible Hybrid Electronics in San…

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