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The engineers at Raytheon BBN Technologies have been working diligently and feverishly on technologies that will enable seamless communication in hostile environment between next-gen manned and unmanned aircraft. Having won two contracts worth a total of $9 million dollars, Raytheon BBN Technologies is hard at work under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Dynamic Network Adaptation for Mission Optimization (DyNAMO) program in order to deliver new networking solutions.

The goal of the DyNAMO program is to share information between pilots of different types of aircraft, with different sensor suites for a more comprehensive view of the entire battle space. Vice president for Raytheon BBN Technologies' Networking and Communications unit, Jason Redi revealed the plan for the Raytheon company team citing that the team must develop two new capabilities with the first be able to adapt radio parameters in reaction to changing needs and conditions and the second is to develop an efficient way to share information across the board between networks that are currently incompatible.

On July 25 2016, SKF released an article talking about how their company is worked out a deal with the manufacturer CMPC so that they will provide housings and bearings to the manufacturer. In creating this contract together, SKF has expanded its market exposure over Latin America even more. CMPC is considered one of the biggest Chilean pulp and paper companies.

CMPC more specifically works on being manufacturing of pulp, tissue, forestry, packing, and paper products. There are over 17,000 people that are employed at the company which expands over eight different countries. Within the Latin America facility, there is forest plantations that include things such as saw, pulp, plywood, containerboard, and tissue mills. In addition to this, the company has also molded products and recycling for its paper distribution business.