TTC Member Success Story: Accipiter Systems, Inc., Wexford, PA
Mission Possible—PA Startup Lands DoD Project Work
After the dot.com bubble burst, Dan Flynn and most of his department at Marconi hit the street at the same time. The ex-director of engineering for the Pittsburgh IT giant, Flynn saw two options for the unemployed pool of local tech talent. “We could scatter individually to other hot spots like Boston, San Jose or Austin,” Flynn told his colleagues. “Or we could form a team right here to attract money and jobs to the region.” Read More...
- TTC e-newsletter September 16, 2009
Innovation Works Makes 100th New Investment in Seed-Stage Technology Companies
Innovation Works, the Pittsburgh region's most active and largest seed-stage investor in technology start-ups, invested in its 100th company since the inception of the organization's seed fund in late 1999. The portfolio companies also reached an unprecedented single-year milestone of attracting more than $100 million in follow-on investment... Read More...
- Innovation Works
The Technology Collaborative awards largest single round of funding for Technology Commercialization Projects across the Commonwealth
The Technology Collaborative (TTC), a statewide economic development organization that supports the growth of Pennsylvania’s world-class robotics, cyber-security and digital technologies industries, today announced its most recent round of funding. In total, $2,300,000 will be allocated to twelve companies and one joint university/corporate... Read More...
-Technology Collaborative
The Technology Collaborative awards funding for Technology Development Projects
* Projects reflect significant collaboration between universities and industry
* Three projects awarded to robotic companies, who will work jointly with digital technology companies
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-Technology Collaborative
Technique offers high bandwidth
An experimental hybrid technology that combines both laser and radio frequency communications into a single system may soon provide warfighters with robust, high-bandwidth data networks. Software protocols will allow nodes in these networks to switch automatically between the two transmission modes based on the type of message sent and on... Read More…
-Signal Journal
Lockheed Martin Division to lead $15 million development of prototype hybrid/optical network for DARPA
Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors (MS2) of Akron, Ohio announced that under a DARPA-funded contract named ORCLE (Optical and Radio frequency Combined Link Experiment), with an initial value of $15 million, the company had been selected by the USAF Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio as prime contractor and leader of a team that includes ITT... Read More...
-Optical Networks Daily
Lockheed Martin wins $15 million contract to develop advanced communications network
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, through the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, selected Lockheed Martin to develop and demonstrate a prototype network that combines the speed of laser-based communications with the dependability of radio frequency communications to support the information- sharing needs of military commanders... Read More...
-Washington Post
10 Tech projects receive research funding
The Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse has awarded $1.5 million in its latest round of research funding to 10 university and business projects in areas related to system-on-a-chip technology in the digital multimedia and networking markets. Greenhouse president and CEO David Ruppersberger said the response to the organization's research program... Read More...
-Pittsburgh Business Times
Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse awards funding for technology development projects
* Research Initiative Awards $1.5 million to
* Local Universities and Technology Companies
* The Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse announced today its latest round of research funding in areas related to the use of system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology in the digital multimedia and networking... Read More...
-Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse
IBM, others bloom at Greenhouse
IBM and four other companies have joined the nonprofit Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, a state-funded consortium of universities, companies and nonprofits seeking to make southwestern Pennsylvania a computer chip-design center. The other four new members are Accipiter Systems Inc., Aeptec Microsystems,...
-Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Five Companies join Digital Greenhouse
* IBM and four other companies have joined the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse in recent months, bringing the number of members in the nonprofit organization to 27.
* President and chief executive officer David Ruppersberger said Monday that the additions will help "make the Greenhouse network stronger and more valuable."
-Pittsburgh Business Times
Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse welcomes new member companies
* Accipiter Systems, Inc., Aeptec Microsystems, also known as 3e Technologies International, IBM, Novocell Semiconductor, and Vesper Networks Expand Greenhouse Membership to 27 Companies
* The Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse (PDG) today formally announced the addition of five new companies to their industry member roster. The companies, Accipiter Systems... Read More...
-Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse