ARS Cereal Product Utilization Research
Thomas Schatzki
Developed and promoted the use of x-ray imaging as a tool for detecting agricultural contraband.
ARS Subtropical Horticulture Research Station
Jennifer Sharp
For a hot water quarantine treatment.
ARS Boll Weevil Research Unit
Gerald McKibben
For design, development, and transfer of attract-and-kill technology.
ARS Plant Sciences
Aref Abdul-Baki
Transferred technology to farmers for production of vegetable with a reduced-input system.
Plant Sciences Institute
Jeffrey Aldrich
For transfer of the patented discovery of synthetic pheromones for the spined soldier bug, podusus maculiventris.
ARS Insect Biocontrol Lab
Martin Shapiro, Edward Dougherty, John Hamm
For the first commercial enhancer for viral biopesticides.
Forest Products Lab
Theodore Laufenberg, John Hunt, C. Tim Scott, Roland Gleisner, Janet Stockhausen, John Bachuber, Debra Dietzman
For the transfer of FPL's Spaceboard technology to private industry to manufacture a family of structural fiber products made from recovered paper materials.
Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry
Daniel Twardus, Stephen Smith
For the Calibrator, a portable expert system that helps to quickly and accurately calibrate aircraft spray systems.
NTIA Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
David Wortendyke
For audio compact discs containing ALE tones representing the HF ALE radio federal standards.
NOAA NW Fisheries Science Center-Kodiak Lab
Jerry Babbitt, Kermit Reppond
For a process technology generating value-added products from fish offal.
Armstrong Laboratory
Bruce Nielsen
For transition of laser optic spectroscopic in situ contaminant identification technology, commercialized as the Rapid Optical Screening Tool.
James Paarlett, Terresa Jackson, J. Wesley Regian, Jr., Stephen Toth, Kurt Steuck, Alicia Cruz
For the Fundamental Skills Training Word Problem Solving Tutor for at-risk public school students.
Rome Laboratory
Douglas Smith, John Grieco, John Parker, Jr., Laurie Fenstermacher, Bridget Withers, Edward Cupples,
Sharon Walter, Stephen Smith
For speech enhancement technology to improve voice communications for military and commercial uses.
Lee Uvanni
For the advanced, robust neural network technique able to detect malignant lung tumors.
Richard Linerman, Ralph Kohler
For a multi-chop stacking technology to increase memory densification while shrinking the physical volume of computer memory by factors of hundreds over conventional approaches.
Army Command Control and Systems Integration Directorate
Carl Elks
For a cooperative research agreement that will allow safety-critical design methods, originally intended for the aerospace industry, to be transferred for the design of safety-critical railway systems.
Edgewood RD&E Center
Peter Stopa
For transferring critical diagnostic kit technologies to the disease control communities of the U.S. and three allied countries.
Missile Command RD&E Center
Robert Milton, David Dawkins, Leeoma Whitman, Robert Stanley, L.B. Thorn, W.D. Stephens
For the transfer of fullerene processes and coating materials that reduce radar clutter and interference affecting navigation and public safety.
Naval Surface Warfare Center-Carderock
Nathaniel Gorin, Gerald Shay, Charles Fleck
For shipboard oil/fuel analysis equipment that has revolutionized the way the Navy tests the key properties of these fluids.
Argonne National Laboratory
U. Balachandran, J. Dusek, P. Malya, R. Mievelle
Transferred technology to industry to upgrade natural gas into vital pollution-reducing fuel additives, liquid fuels, and other chemicals.
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
David Meikrantz
For the Annual Centrifugal Contactor (oil water separator) technology.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Thomas McEwan
For a new category in sensor technology and its commercial licensing.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
David Ginley, Carol Ashby, Douglas Schulz, Tom Plut, Jeff Alleman
For chemical processing systems that can precisely etch circuits in thin films of ferroelectric and high-temperature superconducting materials.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Timothy Scott
Developed and transferred the Emission Phase Contactor.
Tuan VoDinh, Wayne Scarbrough, R. Russ Miller, Lou Lome, M. Yalcintas
For SERODS hHigh-density optical data storage.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Morris Good
For the Ultrasonic Microstructural Analyzer (UMA).
Steven Miller
For developing a unique business association that allowed him to transfer COSL technology.
Larry Brackenbush, Gordon Anderson
Redesigned an expensive defense-oriented technology into "Scout," a practical and economically attractive field instrument.
Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center
Scott Smouse
For outstanding efforts in promoting technology transfer for the PETC Combustion and Environmental Research Facility.
Sandia National Laboratory
Eric Snyder, William Filter, Ed Cole, Chris Henderson, Jim Sweet
Transferred an advanced suite of techniques for improving the quality and reliability of microelectronics, benefiting a broad base of U.S. integrated circuit manufacturers.