New digital manufacturing lab wins $10 million defense vehicle grant

6/12/2014

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Crain's Chicago Business (June 12) -- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., are announcing that the lab — formally known as the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute — has received $10 million in defense funds to speed the development of military vehicles. Specifically, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant will go toward better use of digital technology to produce better and more reliable planes, trucks and other vehicles more quickly. Also: Belleville News-Democrat (Illinois, June 16).


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This story was published June 12, 2014.