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Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc.  establishes a research and development center at the University of South Florida in Tampa and a production center in St. Petersburg.

The Draper center will work in partnership with USF and its medical school for the application of microelectromechanical systems technologies to medical and biological problems, the release said. Draper also will sponsor two graduate students at USF each year, supporting the graduate education and co-advising the thesis work conducted.

The facility in St. Petersburg, a multi-chip module center, will position Draper to meet an increasing demand by a select group of government customers for custom designed, developed and produced specialty multi-chip modules designed for innovative applications, the release said. Multi-chip modules combine multiple integrated circuits into a single unit or “system on a chip,” dramatically reducing the size and weight of complex electronic systems.