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An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. This led to iRobot’s sale of more than 4,000 PacBot robots that perform perilous missions (like bomb disposal) in support of soldiers and first responders in combat.

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government via Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Much like the NIH SBIR program.) China is plowing into this with government support, private and public funding, and a China FDA (CFDA) approval process that favors local Chinese solutions. In the U.S. and/or the U.S. The Future. Outside the U.S.,

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