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Utah Builds the Technologies That Defend the Nation and Power the Economy

By Deseret News · October 14, 2026 · 1 min read
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Today, a growing number of those problems are converging around aerospace, defense and other hard tech industries — fields that require significant engineering, advanced manufacturing, specialized talent and long development timelines. At the same time, advances in these industries are increasingly finding applications far beyond their original purpose.

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