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A Maverick Marianist university – part 2

The University of Dayton has obtained military contracts to work on the Maverick missile.  I have mentioned this before; here is some updated information.

Here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the Maverick missile:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/agm-65.htm

The Maverick is a weapon.  (Did you know that people still wonder, apparently, whether or not UD works on weapons?  Despite everything I’ve written about the Minuteman III nuclear missile, these Mavericks, etc.?  I can tell from the search engine terms they use to get to this blog.  It’s amazing.)

Anyway, the site GovernmentContractsWon.com:

http://www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/university_of_dayton_073134025.asp?yr=10

- mentions that UD has done contracting for the Maverick worth $1.2 million since 2007.  (You can get that figure only if you pay the twenty bucks for the full data download, which I did.)

And that’s only the contracts that have information in the “weapons system” column; most of the contracts at UD (and probably everywhere else doing this stuff, I assume) say “not discernable” or “classified” in that column.  So all of UD’s “classified” contracts could be . . . who knows.  My guess is that a lot of them are for robot-nanomissiles, or perhaps nano-robotmissiles.

Meanwhile, the University of Toledo makes headlines for its research on solar power:

“The company has a 5,000-square-foot manufacturing operation on the campus of the University of Toledo, which provided venture-capital funding to Nextronex and has an incubator offering business services to alternative-energy startups.”

http://www.industryweek.com/articles/solar_manufacturers_find_a_home_in_the_glass_city_26163.aspx?SectionID=1