United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford said the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded it a $5.2 million contract to develop a way to create new materials more quickly for aerospace manufacturing.
The contract, which comes from DoD’s DARPA research arm, aims to reduce the amount of time it takes to evolve, design and manufacture new aerospace materials from 10 years or more to fewer than three.
UTRC researchers, led by project leader G.V. Srinivasan will work with Ohio’s GoHypersonic, which researches hypersonic propulsion systems and vehicles.
Two hypersonic chemistry and aerodynamics experts from the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota will also participate, UTRC said.
UTRC broke ground this week on a 100,000-square-foot lab and research facility in East Hartford.
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