Carter To Announce New Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Hub

By Tony Bertuca / August 28, 2015 at 6:00 AM
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is scheduled Friday to announce 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 is scheduled to make the announcement 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...

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