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Business Bytes: Avetec Enters the New Year Strong

01/05/10

Avetec enters 2010 with new contracts to support its public benefit research endeavors. Among these are new contracts with Avetec’s fellow National Aerospace Leadership Initiative (NALI) partner, the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT), with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), and a new grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

DOE:
The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, totaling $3.3 million, will support the ongoing efforts of Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) and its high performance computing (HPC) research endeavors.

“We are really happy to partner with the Department of Energy,” said Avetec CEO Homer Smith, when discussing the research grant. “The DOE is a preeminent leader in HPC technology and they assist in most of the major developments in that area.”

WPAFB:
Avetec’s Research team, led by Avetec Chief Technology Officer Dr. Jeffrey Dalton, will work on a contract with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The focus of the work will be on gear box design for the Joint Strike Fighter.

CCAT:
This new contract between the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology and Avetec will support a study of the variable pitch fan. Avetec’s role will be to examine how the use of alternative materials in a variable pitch engine design will affect the engine’s efficiency in terms of both fuel use/cost and engine weight.

For more information, please send an email to info@avetec.org.