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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ 6K, the world s leading developer of microwave plasma technology for the production of advanced materials, today announced that Dr. Joe Felter, a former senior Department of Defense official under then Secretary of Defense James Mattis, has joined 6K s advisory board. Dr. Felter will guide 6K s strategy in working with the US Department of Defense and other Federal agencies for the innovation and deployment of advanced materials products to support the national interest of the US. He joins other industry luminaries including Magnus Rene, prior CEO ARCAM, and Robert Galyen, prior CTO CATL. We are honored to have Dr. Felter join the 6K team as part of our advisory board. 6K has a unique technology that not only addresses scarcity of strategic materials and reduces our dependence on foreign imports, but for the first time enables domestic production of advanced materials typically produced overseas due to our dramatic reductio
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Former DOD official joins 6K Advisory Board
Dr Joe Felter.Â
6K has announced former Department of Defence official Dr Joe Felter has joined the companyâs Advisory Board.
It comes just months after 6K and 6K Additive secured a $1m award to support the Defence Logistics Agency (DLA) in establishing a domestic capability to recover defence scrap and convert it into additive manufacturing powder.
Dr Felter is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for South and Southeast Asia and is currently a William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford Universityâs Center for International Security and Cooperation and research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the co-creator of a defence innovation-focused curriculum called âHacking for Defenceâ, which was piloted at Stanford and now taught at over 50 universities across the country, while he has also served in a variety of special operations and diplomatic assignments, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.