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TactoTek Solution and Capabilities Recognized As
Key Enabling Technology That Enables and Drives
Innovation and EU Competitiveness
TactoTek, a leading manufacturer of 3D injection molded
structural electronics (IMSE) solutions today announced that
it has been named a recipient of a €2.5 million EU Horizon
2020 award to mass produce injection molded electronics
(IME) solutions.
Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument of Innovation Union,
a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe’s
global competitiveness and whose charter includes supporting
new, breakthrough enabling and industrial technologies that
strengthen Europe’s industrial capabilities.
“TactoTek is honored to be selected by the H2020 investment
committee,” said Jussi Harvela, CEO of TactoTek,
TactoTek’s solutions integrate printed circuitry, printed touch
controls and discrete electronic components, such as LEDs and
ICs, into light, 3D injection molded plastics as thin as 2mm.
By incorporating circuitry and electronics directly into plastic
structures, TactoTek enables brands to design innovative form
factors and consolidate electronics into a single 3D structure.
TactoTek maintains a staff of engineers to help customers
adapt their traditional electronics designs into IMSE solutions.
The company prototypes and manufactures products in its
Kempele, Finland, factory that includes a complete, vertically-
integrated production capability; mass production can be
performed by TactoTek or TactoTek-licensed production
partners.
TactoTek awarded EUR 2.5 Million EU Horizon 2020 grant to mass
produce injection molded electronics
Hallmark Envisions Real-Time Space Command and Control
First effort under new program
aims to develop technologies
to help commanders rapidly
plan, assess, and execute the
full spectrum of U.S. military
operations in space
Military commanders responsible for
situational awareness and command
and control of assets in space know all
too well the challenge that comes from
the vast size of the space domain. The
volume of Earth’s operational space
domain is hundreds of thousands
times larger than the Earth’s oceans. It
contains thousands of objects hurtling at tens of thousands
of miles per hour. The scales and speeds in this extreme
environment are difficult enough to grasp conceptually, let
alone operationally, as is required for commanders overseeing
the nation’s increasingly critical space assets.
Current space domain awareness tools and technologies
were developed when there were many fewer objects in
space. Only a few nations could even place satellites in orbit,
and those orbits were easily predictable without advanced
software tools. That situation has changed dramatically in the
past decade with a developing space industry flooding once
lonely orbits with volleys of satellite
constellations. Despite this much more
complex and chaotic environment,
commanders with responsibility for
space domain awareness often rely
on outdated tools and processes - and
thus incomplete information - as they
plan, assess, and execute U.S. military
operations in space.
To help address these technical and
strategicchallenges,DARPA is launching
the first of two planned efforts under
the Agency’s new Hallmark program,
which has the overarching goal to
provide breakthrough capabilities in U.S. space command
and control. This first effort, the Hallmark Software Testbed
(Hallmark-ST), has as its primary goal the creation of an
advanced enterprise software architecture for a testbed for
tools that will integrate a full spectrum of real-time space-
domain systems and capabilities. The testbed would be used
to expedite the creation and assessment of a comprehensive
set of new and improved tools and technologies that could
be spun off into near-term operational use for the Defense
Department’s Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) and
Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center
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