Middle, high school students to join CCAT activities on Oct. 17, 31 EAST HARTFORD, Conn. – Sept. 27, 2018 – From discovering career possibilities to learning about new workplace skills, Connecticut’s next generation of manufacturers statewide will come together in October for the seventh annual Connecticut. Dream It. Do It.…
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Hydrogen Safety Panel serves as a resource for local code officials and stakeholders in the Northeast US. The Hydrogen Safety Panel (HSP) teamed up with the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT) and a number of local organizations to provide code officials and other…
CT officials: Utilities thwarted millions of hacking attempts (Hartford Business Journal, 9/18/18) Connecticut cybersecurity officials said Tuesday that utility companies have faced more frequent and sophisticated attempts to penetrate their networks over the past year, but suffered no breaches. In a second annual review of utility cyberdefenses — a confidential…
Although funding to train opportunity youths and low-skill adults has steadily declined in recent years, Jim Boucher, chief strategy officer for Capital Workforce Partners in Hartford, is growing confident those dollars could be revived. With tens of thousands of job openings annually in Connecticut, Boucher said the need to train…
Students from this past summer’s CCAT Young Manufacturers Academy are profiled by Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) for a video series on manufacturing. CT Public Learning Media Lab interns, funded by an American Graduate: Getting to Work grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has depicted the varied perspectives about the…
(Hartford Business Journal, 9/17/18) Inside a downtown Hartford skyscraper, legendary New Britain hand- and power-tool maker Stanley Black & Decker has set up a collaborative technology laboratory whose aim is to bottle innovation lightning of all kinds. When it formally debuts as early as late October, the pilot Stanley Technology…
(Heattreat, 9/12/18) When you think of hacking, you might think of viruses or ransomware attacks where computers are unable to operate unless a bitcoin is paid to an anonymous cybercriminal. In the manufacturing sector, the reality isn’t quite so public. First, the practical physical realities of the industrial landscape are…
WorkinCT #CTConfident: Push for new talent in advanced manufacturing (Fox 61 News, 9/18/18) Shawn Dow is fairly new to Phoenix Manufacturing in Enfield. “I was an auto mechanic before. There’s only so much you can do in the auto field without owning your own business, and here you can really expand…
As part of Australia’s first-ever defense summit in Connecticut, a group of officials stopped by CCAT’s Advanced Manufacturing Center on Sept. 14 to check out our capabilities and what we could offer their supply chain. The tour was led by AMC Associate Director Wayne Sumple and included CCAT’s Executive Vice…
(The New England Council, 9/12/18) NEC member Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT) recently announced that their workforce development initiative helped onboard new manufacturing talent for aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney. Through CCAT’s Entry Level Pipeline Program, 16 new employees graduated in August 2018 with full-time positions as Airfoil Cell Operators/Machinists. Read…