BSEM contract awarded

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FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATE
DATE: DECEMBER 9, 2009

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Dayton, OH: UES, Inc. was awarded the Broad Spectrum Engineered Materials $44.5 million research and development contract from the U.S. Air Force.  The six-year contract was awarded on Sept. 14 and is to be carried out at the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. 

 

The contract involves research and development in four areas: using biotechnology to strengthen materials and devices; exploiting biology by recreating processes in nature to strengthen materials and devices, exploring the way microbes contaminate materials; and developing nanotechnology.   The work will be done for the nano and biological materials branch of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at AFRL. UES plans to hire approximately 12-15 additional scientists as a result of the contract. 

 

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