The Event
STAR Technology Enterprise Center (STAR TEC) a technology and manufacturing business accelerator, announces the graduation of Alaka’i Engineering & Consulting, a STAR TEC client since 2006. The Honorable C.W. Bill Young will be guest of honor.
Date/Time: 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008
Location: Young-Rainey STAR Center
7887 Bryan Dairy Rd., Building 300
Largo, Fla. 33777
Highlights and Visuals
Congressman Young joins in ribbon cutting for new facility
Video from field testing of laser-electro-optic spectroscopy
Interview Opportunities
Congressman Young
Ed Dottery, Alaka’i president and co-founder
Guy Ontai, Alaka’i vice president and co-founder
Jim Failor, president, CTC Tampa Bay
Tonya Elmore, executive director, STAR TEC
Background
About STAR TEC
With a mission of “Accelerating Entrepreneurial Success,” STAR TEC (http://www.startecflorida.com) is a private, not-for-profit organization that supports the growth of early stage manufacturing and technology-based companies in the Tampa Bay region, enabling them to move their products or services to market more rapidly and effectively. STAR TEC occupies 30,000 square feet at the Young-Rainey Science, Technology and Research (STAR) Center in Largo, Fla.
About Alakai
Alaka’i Consulting & Engineering, Inc. (http://www.alakai.us) and its extensive network of affiliated partners provide next generation sensor and technology solutions to challenges facing the defense and security markets. The company brings together the science and engineering disciplines, along with relevant operational experience, with a particular specialty in laser and electro-optic remote sensing and systems integration to detect trace molecules of military significance, such as found in explosives and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
The Event
STAR Technology Enterprise Center (STAR TEC) a technology and manufacturing business accelerator, announces the graduation of Alaka’i Engineering & Consulting, a STAR TEC client since 2006. The Honorable C.W. Bill Young will be guest of honor.
Date/Time: 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008
Location: Young-Rainey STAR Center
7887 Bryan Dairy Rd., Building 300
Largo, Fla. 33777
Highlights and Visuals
Congressman Young joins in ribbon cutting for new facility
Video from field testing of laser-electro-optic spectroscopy
Interview Opportunities
Congressman Young
Ed Dottery, Alaka’i president and co-founder
Guy Ontai, Alaka’i vice president and co-founder
Jim Failor, president, CTC Tampa Bay
Tonya Elmore, executive director, STAR TEC
Background
About STAR TEC
With a mission of “Accelerating Entrepreneurial Success,” STAR TEC (http://www.startecflorida.com) is a private, not-for-profit organization that supports the growth of early stage manufacturing and technology-based companies in the Tampa Bay region, enabling them to move their products or services to market more rapidly and effectively. STAR TEC occupies 30,000 square feet at the Young-Rainey Science, Technology and Research (STAR) Center in Largo, Fla.
About Alakai
Alaka’i Consulting & Engineering, Inc. (http://www.alakai.us) and its extensive network of affiliated partners provide next generation sensor and technology solutions to challenges facing the defense and security markets. The company brings together the science and engineering disciplines, along with relevant operational experience, with a particular specialty in laser and electro-optic remote sensing and systems integration to detect trace molecules of military significance, such as found in explosives and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).