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Business/Financial

Small Massachusetts Company Finds Niche In Navy Composite Work

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Thursday, June 5th, 2008

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By Geoff Fein The Navy is in the process of signing a contract with Massachusetts's-based KaZak Composites Inc., for the company's impact recovery post, a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) effort that will be incorporated onto all the service's aircraft carriers. The post will replace an existing system used on carriers to keep crew from falling down elevator shafts. The problem was that when the elevators would descend after unloading aircraft, ordnance or other equipment to the deck, steel poles…

Congress

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