Still, POET hasn’t had any takers even though the company has been around since 2000 and Dr. Taylor’s work has been funded in part by the U.S. Department of Defense. The company says defence manufacturer BAE Systems and others have validated the platform “and are developing solutions to be deployed into the market by early fall,”

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