The University of Dayton has announced that locally-based companies Optonicus and Defense Engineering Corp., as well as California-based UtopiaCompression, have signed deals to relocate to UD’s Ladar and Optical Communications Institute. The moves are expected to create more than a dozen new jobs.
DEC and UtopiaCompression are working with the institute on sense-and-avoid technology for unmanned aircraft systems, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, as well as advanced sensor concepts. Optonicus is building intelligent optical systems that can be used to improve image resolution and data transfer by unmanned aircraft systems.
Officials say the pairing of UD faculty and researchers with industry from around the world is part of a comprehensive strategy for the school developed by UD President Dan Curran.
UD officials said this is what drew GE Aviation to the campus. GE Aviation, a division of General Electric Co. is building a $51 million, 115,000-square-foot Electrical Power Integrated Systems Research and Development Center — dubbed EPISCENTER — on the University of Dayton campus on River Park Drive.
Source: Dayton Business Journal