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WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY SCIENTISTS LAND $8.5 MILLION DEFENSE

Washington State University-Spokane issued the following news release:

A team of scientists at Washington State University's Applied Sciences Laboratory (ASL) has been awarded an $8.5 million research contract to develop and demonstrate reactive materials to be used in a new generation of national security applications.

"We've been asked to make a material that is mechanically as good as steel, and yet can release chemical energy on demand," said Yogendra M. Gupta, who is director of WSU's Institute of Shock Physics and one of five principal investigators on the project.

The contract, awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, will ...

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