Category: Technology Acceleration
Current DFARS Cybersecurity Requirements: The path to the future and CMMC
Learn about the current DFARS cybersecurity requirements for Rhode Island / New England manufacturers in the DoD supply chain.
Infographic – The Emergence of Digital Manufacturing
Infographic overview of the digital technologies transforming Rhode Island and US manufacturing companies, and the support provided by Polaris MEP & the MEPNN.
How to Protect Warfighters AND Your Defense Supply Chain Contracts
Two video recordings to help DoD Supply Chain manufacturers improve cybersecurity. Webinars on DFARS, CMMC sponsored by the New England Regional Defense Industry Collaboration (NERDIC).
How Manufacturing Companies (Can) Do Turnarounds
By Polaris MEP Partner Josh Chernin, Business Improvement Group Much of the advice thrown at manufacturing companies these days is about pivots. Pivoting companies retain much of the original elements of their organization but change others. For example, many Rhode...
401 Tech Bridge Completes $6 Million Funding Round to Accelerate Advanced Materials & Technologies
PORTSMOUTH, RI, August 18, 2020 – Polaris MEP sister agency 401 Tech Bridge has announced thecompletion of a $6 million funding round, which will accelerate collaborative technology commercialization, increase jobs and aid the regional economic recovery. A recently...
RI Manufacturing Leaders Say Workforce AND Technology Needed to “Reboot” Manufacturing Post-COVID
Polaris MEP Survey Explores What Is Required to Accelerate Manufacturing Sector Recovery Providence, RI – July 27, 2020 – A new poll by Polaris MEP shows Sales continue to be the greatest challenge currently facing the Rhode Island’s manufacturers. The survey also...
ecoRI News: Ocean State Wades Into Buttressing Its Blue Economy
Polaris MEP is part of a coalition of groups working to turn "blue into the new green" in the Ocean State, as reported by ecoRI News' Grace Kelly. Kelly writes that a variety of organizations that fall within the blue economy, such as Rhode Island Marine Trade...
Polaris MEP, 401 Tech Bridge leaders To Speak During “Defense Innovation” Night
Virtual Venture Café is partnering with 401 Tech Bridge, NUWC Division Newport, and Northeast Tech Bridge for “Defense Innovation and Tech Transfer” a deep dive conversation on the defense industry and its partners in Rhode Island. The program runs from 3:00-6:00pm on...