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DARPA choses organizations for transformative design project

By TechTaffy Desk

PARC, a Xerox company, has been chosen as part of a team of organizations including Siemens, Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), and Michigan State University (MSU) by the DARPA TRAansformative DESign (TRADES) project.

The goal of the multimillion dollar program is to develop a digital modeling technology that will expand existing computer-aided design (CAD) software to design complex objects with superior functional properties, that can still be manufactured with current manufacturing processes, according to a statement from PARC.

[Image courtesy: DARPA]

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