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Virginia-Based Tech Firm Looking To Build Collaboration Center To Pursue Defense Work

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Friday, August 29th, 2008

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By Geoff Fein Fredericksburg, Va.-based SimVentions is the driving force behind a plan to develop a technology center bringing together small companies and universities to collaborate on defense contracts, according to a company official. "The main concept of the Spotsylvania Technology Center (STC) is, let's pull together industry, academia, and government to solve some of the significant defense and homeland security problems of the day," Bob Duffy, board member of SimVentions, told Defense Daily in a recent interview. "You can't…

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