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.:AIM Photonics Announces DoD Project

ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 11, 2017 — The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), a public-private partnership to advance photonics manufacturing capabilities in the U.S., has announced a new U.S. Department of Defense project to help develop sensors for use in environmental monitoring, detection of chemical and biological weapons, disease diagnosis and food safety.

The $900,000 project, along with an additional $1.41 million in matching funds from AIM Photonics industrial members, will support a consortium of partners led by the University of Rochester that includes the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy Research Lab, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Analog Photonics LLC, the University of Tulsa, PhoeniX Software BV, the University of California-Santa Barbara and OndaVia Inc..

“Sensors represent the interface between the real world and data,” said Ben Miller, principal investigator of the project. “Developing a universal set of protocols to design, manufacture, modify and integrate sensors into photonics systems will not only advance this technology, but also present a tremendous economic opportunity — integrated photonics sensors represent a large and rapidly growing market, potentially reaching more than $15 billion globally by 2020.”

https://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=61922

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