The US Department of Defense Technology Reinvestment Project has committed an additional $202.2m to companies developing flat panel display technology and other emerging technologies. Beneficiaries include A group led by Silicon Video Corp, Cupertino, California, which will develop a 10 display using high-voltage field-emission technology for greater brightness and power efficiency than liquid-crystal displays; the US is putting up a third of the $67.2m cost. A group led by Planar Systems Inc, Beaverton, Oregon maker of electroluminescent flat-panel displays, will work on improving thin-film technology for headsets and other miniature displays with the government putting up about half the $29.2m cost. And Texas Instruments Inc and Raytheon Co lead an effort to leap ahead technologically of the Japanese manufacturers that currently dominate the flat-panel display industry, which will get nearly half the $25.5m cost from the Pentagon. Micropolis Corp’s Micropolis Systems and the 3M Disk Technology Laboratory were also given awards to lead efforts to develop future high-density storage systems.
