NC STATE TO SPEARHEAD 10-YEAR, $480 MILLION EFFORT TO BOLSTER DEFENSE TEXTILE MANUFACTURING

DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 17 -- North Carolina State University issued the following press release:

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North Carolina State University has been chosen to lead a 10-year Department of War initiative aimed at modernizing textile manufacturing in the United States to support the defense industry. The FutureTEX award - which includes $36 million in its first year and has a ceiling of $480 million over a decade - brings together industry, government, university and nonprofit partners to advance manufacturing technologies of textiles for military and domestic applications. FutureTEX will champion workforce development and mo...