Teaching Magnifies Technician’s Love of Optics

Teaching Magnifies Technician’s Love of Optics

James Losasso has a passion for optics. With 25 years of experience fabricating precision optics for defense, aerospace, telecommunications, and other applications, he also loves to share that passion with the next generation of technicians. James currently teaches...
From Minimum Wage to MIT Lincoln Laboratory

From Minimum Wage to MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Luke Edelman worked for minimum wage as a contractor and handyman. He clearly remembers the 98-degree day he was in a cramped crawl space beneath an apartment complex, clad in a thick Tyvek suit with goggles and facemask, wading through a lake of raw sewage, to fix a...
AmeriCOM Announces Expanded Board

AmeriCOM Announces Expanded Board

AmeriCOM is excited to introduce seven new board members to help drive our three-pronged mission of creating workforce training programs, developing optics manufacturing technologies, and transitioning those technologies from research into operations. The leaders...