By Harriet Jones, Hartford Business Journal
East Hartford’s Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology hopes to draw additional Connecticut manufacturers into the region’s submarine supply chain through a new training partnership.
CCAT is pairing with Texas-based nonprofit, BlueForge Alliance, to provide technical training in additive manufacturing for the state’s supply chain companies.
BlueForge, which was founded in 2022, is an offshoot of Texas A&M University’s Engineering Experiment Station. In September of this year, the organization won a $951 million Navy contract to help grow the submarine industrial base in the U.S.
“It’s about identifying those technologies that can improve the productivity of the existing industrial base while giving a bit of a leg up to companies that are considering going into the maritime industrial base,” said CCAT president and CEO Ron Angelo.
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