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''For the first few years, funding for the center came from the ARL. Industry partners are heavily invested, too. The Flexible Display Center in Tempe, Ariz., has more than 40 engineers and technicians. They collaborate with several professors at ASU, Princeton University and the University of Texas at Dallas. Many graduate students are also involved in the project.

"Most importantly, we have 30 dues-paying industrial companies who have teams of researchers working together with us on various projects, whether it's developing new materials, new manufacturing equipment for making the parts, or making the displays.''
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02/11 - ASU gets $43.7 million contract from U.S. Army

Marija Potkonjak | Updated Oct 6, 2011
Arizona State University on Tuesday received the largest federal grant in the school’s history — $43.7 million — from the U.S. Army to develop a flexible computer screen that troops can put in their pockets.
"This is going to be the only place in the United States where this technology is being advanced," said Jonathan Fink, vice president for research and economic affairs at ASU. "We’re going from nowhere to the forefront in one step."
The five-year research contract, which has an option for an additional $50 million over an added five-year period, will team ASU with Cornell University and several high-technology companies, including DuPont Displays, Kodak, Honeywell and General Dynamics. Together they will form the ASUArmy Flexible Display Center based in the ASU Research Park at Elliot Road and Loop 101 in Tempe.
These lightweight, low-power displays could be as small as a plastic card worn around a soldier’s wrist. The technology may eventually replace printed material and revolutionize the way information is shared between the command center and ground troops, Army officials said.
ASU was one of four finalists competing for the award, along with Cornell University, Princeton University and the University of Texas at Dallas.
The university’s willingness to buy a 250,000-square-foot research facility owned by Motorola coupled with written commitments from the display industry made ASU’s proposal the strongest, said John Parmentola, the Army’s director for research and laboratory management.
Acquiring the facility would jump-start the project because Motorola designed it for flat panel research and development.
That purchase, which must be approved by the Arizona Board of Regents, is an example of the grant’s immediate economic impact, said Roc Arnett, president and CEO of the East Valley Partnership.
In the long term, the national exposure will create opportunities to add new technology to the Valley’s hightech base and attract companies to the area, Fink said. And companies such as DuPont and Kodak probably will relocate personnel to Tempe to work on the project, Fink said.
"This is just simply the first fruit of many that will be coming our way because of the biotech and bio-design infrastructure," Arnett said
University officials did not comment on the number of jobs the display center would create, but Arnett estimated it would produce 300 to 500 new jobs in the next two to four years.
George Poste, director of the Arizona Biodesign Institute, called the passage of the $450 million research infrastructure bill in June critical to ASU’s success. ASU’s $185 million share funded the construction of several research facilities, including Arizona Biodesign Institute.
"You’ve got to spend the money to attract the best people and the best companies," said Poste, who will have an active leadership role in the display center. "Otherwise you’ll stay in the wilderness."
The crux of ASU President Michael Crow’s argument in favor of the bill was that building research facilities would attract top scientists and companies to the Valley.
"This award is further evidence that ASU can compete with the nation’s elite institutions for grants of this magnitude and importance on an international scale," Crow said in a statement. "The grant is testament to ASU’s ability to attract vital resources to the university and advance high-tech growth in the Valley."
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