Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer

September 2011

• Air Force Eyes Micromachine Bugs That Can Spy
• Picatinny Engineers Develop Versatile Warheads
• Meixler Receives State of New Jersey Meritorious Service Medal
• Army Collaborative Technologies Showcased
• Navy Signs Three Patent Licenses Private Industry
• Partners in Environmental Technology Symposium and Workshop
• Argonne Designs Self-Assembled Micro-Robots
• Patent Reform: The America Invents Act

August 2011

• Engineering a New Face After Injury
• Sandia and UNM Lead Effort to Destroy Cancers
• NASA Book Available for Visually Impaired to Learn About Moon
• Statement by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Record-Setting Power, Reliability, and Efficiency in a Low Mass, Free-Piston Stirling Convertor
• Human Animal Bond Brings Pets to Patients, Staff
• Prosthesis Helps Medal of Honor Hero Stay With Rangers

July 2011

• NIST, ASTM Land a One-Two Punch to Fight Explosives Terrorism
• BNL Researchers Work to Develop a Field-Deployable Instrument to Identify Live Ordnance Using Neutrons
• Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport Supports Patent Licensees
• Tracking Maritime Vessel Traffic Along the Mexican Coasts
• Bright Idea in Government Award: A Rapid Logistics Solution for the UK Ministry of Defence
• Tunnel Provides New Capability to YPG
• Department of the Navy Supports DOD's Domestic Preparedness Support Initiative

May/June 2011

• ORNL's Jaguar Helps BMI Win Award, Nation Save Fuel
• Air Force Firefighting Operations Conclude in Texas
• FAA Revises Proposal to Enhance Air Carrier Training Programs
• Call for Innovative Small Business Transportation Research and Technology Proposals
• Sandia Security Experts Help Transport, Store Soviet-Era Bomb Materials
• Environmental Impact Statement Released by National Park Service
• NASA's Toyota Study Released by Department of Transportation

April 2011

• "Virtual World" Helps With Post-traumatic Stress
• Weapons Technology Repurposed for Peaceful Use in Medical Prosthetics
• Students Selected for 2011 NASA Student Airborne Research Program
• Berkeley Lab Distinguished Scientist Art Rosenfeld Wins Global Energy Prize
• Military to Medical: Partnership Challenges Entrepreneurship Students
• USDA Leads the Way on Green Buildings
• Blood Test May Predict Diabetes Risk

March 2011

• Seeing the Light: Berkeley Lab Brings Plasmonic Nanofields Into Focus
• Crowding Out Collisions: Close Quarters Boost Atomic Clock's Accuracy
• Idaho National Laboratory Grants Give Students Head Start on College and Technical Training
• Three Department of Navy Technologies at 2011 World's Best Technologies Forum
• Carderock Signs Partnership and Education Agreements
• Micro/Nanoscale Chemical-Sensor Systems for Aerospace Applications
• NAVSOLVE™ "Solves" New Environmentally Friendly Cleaning Specifications
• Viewing Threats From High Above to Save Lives

February 2011

• NASA Addresses Environmental Stability
• Wind Turbines Create More Than Energy
• U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research Is Service to America Medals Award Finalist
• USDA Revises Heat Treatment Schedule for Emerald Ash Borer
• Making Radioactive ⁶³Ni to Target Explosives
• NSA Launches New High-Tech Recruitment Tools
• Statement of NIH Director on Recommendation to Create a Single Institute for Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction Research

January 2011

• Molecular "Stencils" Open Up New Possibilities
• LEDs Promise Brighter Future, Not Necessarily Greener
• A Marketplace Where Business Opportunities Can Be Found, Understood, and Valued in 2 Minutes or Less
• Hyperion to Build Demo Reactor at Savannah River
• Four NAVAIR Employees Honored as Navy's Top Scientists and Engineers
• Exploration Medical Capability
• Developing Greener, Cheaper Magnets

December 2010

• What If Biological Machines Power Manmade Devices?
• NIH Studies College Student Drinking Habits
• General Service Administration Seeks Science-Savvy Companies and Subject Matter Experts
• National Cancer Institute Inventors Receive Recognition
• Researchers Discover Key Mutation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
• Diagnostic Test to Identify 5-Fluorouracil Toxicity in Cancer Patients
• National Cancer Institute: Center for Cancer Research Dedicated to Fundamental Discoveries in Cancer and HIV/AIDS

October/November 2010

• Realistic Robotic Arm Within Reach
• NASA Opens Space Station for Biological Research from NIH Grants
• NIH Teams with Pay.gov to Speed Tech Transfer Payments
• TechLink Receives Excellence in Economic Development Award
• Making a Diesel Engine Run on Gasoline
• Naval Medical Research Center Working with Partner to Accelerate Testing of a Travelers' Diarrhea Vaccine Candidate
• Finding the Words: New Brain Stimulation Technique Shows Promise for People with Aphasia

September 2010

• Human Gait Signatures: INSPIRE
• THAAD System Intercepts Target in Successful Missile Defense Flight Test
• U.S. Navy's Patent Portfolio Ranked #1 Among Government Organizations Worldwide
• NNSA's Defense Programs Office Announces Reorganization, Forms New Science Council to Explore Cross-Cutting Issues
• NASA Moves Forward on Commercial Partnership for Rocket Engine Testing
• Quantum Enabled Security

August 2010

• ESA to Set Tiny Hair-like Webb Telescope Microshutters Test
• BACN Global Hawk Conducts Flight Test
• Cutting Fat and Calories from Cakes and Frostings
• Combined-Cycle Integrated Inlet Testing
• Sandia Wins Four R&D 100 Awards in Display of Wide-ranging Expertise
• Commercialization of Technologies That Convert Waste CO2
• Affordable Composite Fan Case with Damage-Tolerant Braided Fiber Architecture
• AFRL Test Marks Return to 'In-House' Rocket Fuel Development

July 2010

• Modified Ground-Based Interceptor Completes Successful Flight
• Clean Energy and Nano Research in the Spotlight at SPIE
• Senator Bingaman Applauds LANL and Sandia for Helping Address the Gulf Oil Well Leak
• U.S. Transportation Command's Campus Grows
• Fine Mist Nozzle Is Navy Winner of 2010 Hot Technologies Contest
• Versatile Small-Scale Rocket Motor Test Evaluates New Materials

May/June 2010

• New State-of-the-Art Locomotive Simulator Installed
• PPPL Develops Software for Easy Science Bowl® Tabulations
• Volpe Center and Department of Defense Haitian Relief Efforts
• Navy CRADA Successful in T2 Development
• Reports Concerning Flight Attendant Fatigue Published by the FAA
• 2010 FLC National Meeting

April 2010

• NextGen Technologies
• Going With the "FLO" Allows for Interoperability
• Department of Energy Announces Technology Transfer Coordinator
• U.S. Army and Air Force Have Partnered with U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Knowledge Online Web Portal
• Technology Benefiting Disaster Relief Has Roots in the SBIR Program and T2 Efforts
• Cyber Control System Launch

March 2010

• Star-Mapping Tools Enable Tracking of Endangered Animals
• Trapped! Scientists Immobilize Bacteria in Fibrous Hydrogel
• EPA and DOE Join States to Speed Energy-Efficiency Progress in the United States
• Two Forest Service Scientists Honored for Contributions to Climate Change Research
• CONR Supports Successful Space Shuttle Launch
• Sandia Announces Completion of Mixed Waste Landfill Cover Construction
• NASA's Grid-Tied Photovoltaic Power System

February 2010

• Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA
• Small Nanoparticles Bring Big Improvement to Medical Imaging
• LANL Receives Contribution for Math and Science Academy From Chevron Energy Technology Company
• Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Launched; Governing Board Elected
• Plasmonic Whispering Gallery Microcavity Paves the Way to Future Nanolasers
• Kennedy Space Center's Partnership with Graftel Incorporated

January 2010

• FABS21 Benchmarking Tool Will Help Semiconductor Manufacturing Facilities Improve Energy Efficiency
• NREL's Solution for Improving Battery Technology
• Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate Center of Excellence for High-Energy Lasers
• New Wind Turbine Expands Partnership with Idaho Schools
• Rolling Out Affordable Solar Energy
• It's the Write Thing to Do
• New SunCatcher™ Power System Unveiled at National Solar Thermal Test Facility

December 2009

• Studying Fertilizers to Cut Greenhouse Gases
• LANL Leader Wins Governor's Distinguished Public Service Award
• U.S. and Europe Share Air Traffic Management Research
• Students Send Experiment on Space Shuttle Atlantis
• Sandia Receives DOD "Trusted Foundry" Accreditation
• Argonne "Homegrown" Hybrid Solar Cell Aims for Low-Cost Power
• NIST Demonstrates "Universal" Programmable Quantum Processor for Quantum Computers

October/November 2009

• NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test
• Commerce Secretary Unveils Plan for Smart Grid Interoperability
• New Biophotonics Techniques Hold Promise
• Sandia Hopping Robots to Bolster Troop Capabilities
• Argonne Leverages Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines for Biomedicine
• Navy Researchers Apply Science to Fire Fighting
• USDA Issues New Food Safety Regulations

September 2009

• Genetic Research Sheds Light on Group B Streptococcus
• Air Force, NASA Team to Extend Life of Hubble Space Telescope Through 2014
• NIH Awards Sandia's Timlin for Protein Research
• President Obama to Nominate Gallagher to Lead NIST
• Army Lab Promotes Science to Students
• Livermore, Los Alamos Team for Artificial Retina Project to Help Restore Vision for Many

August 2009

• CRADA Team's Microwire Signals an Array of Applications
• Lighting the Way for Deer Crossings
• Berkeley Scientist Recognized for Solar Cell Work
• SafeTrip-21 Transportation Safety Technologies Take Manhattan
• FAA Enters into Three New CRADA Agreements
• First Female Private Space Explorer to Keynote T2 Meeting
• An Encouraging Past and a Soaring Future for Scholars at Wright Patterson Air Force Base

July 2009

• NASA Gives Astronaut Safety Max Attention
• Fuel Emissions Lab Enters New Age for Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance
• NREL and Ford Team Up to Develop "Cool" Cars
• NASA and Google Launch Virtual Exploration of the Moon
• FAA Safety Forums
• NIH Center for Interventional Oncology Offers Venue for Collaborations
• GEOINT Techs Showcased
• Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Addresses the Shortage of American Scientists and Engineers

June 2009

• NIAID Fights Allergy Battle for 3 Million Children
• Berkeley's Breast Cancer Research Dream Team
• Army Research Command Takes Life-Saving Tech from Lab to Battlefield
• NIST Finds 'a Touch of Glass' in Metal, Settles Century-Old Question
• ESRL Observations Now Used in NWS Operational Tool
• NASA's Moon Observer
• Sandia, Purdue Investigate New Methods for Monitoring and Operating Wind Turbines

April/May 2009

• Repelling Biowarfare Agents and Creating Antibacterial Sportswear
• Crane EnGAGEs in Cooperative Tech Transfer
• OSU Recognizes $1M+ in Royalties
• USDA, DOE Announce Up to $25 Million in Funding for Biomass Research and Development Initiative
• Sandia, KAFB Pack More Than 10,000 Care Packages for Troops
• Army Research Lab Technical Team Recognized by DOD
• Olympia Lab First to Receive America Recovery Funding
• Networks of the Future Extending Our Senses into the Physical World
• New Agricultural Research Service Techniques Developed for TSE Testing

March 2009

• Los Alamos Keeps An Eye on the Environment: Monitoring Birds, Bees, Flowers, Trees … and More
• Long-Sought Protein Structure May Help Reveal How "Gene Switch" Works
• NASA Stennis Partners with Mississippi for Geospatial Tech Industry Cluster
• NASA and California Institute of Technology Test Steep-Terrain Rover
• Sandia's Diamond-like Films Onboard NASA Satellite
• Wu and Liu Awarded AFOSR Grant for Media Forensics
• Lab in the Spotlight: National Energy Technology Laboratory
• i-Tree: Measuring the Urban Forest

January/February 2009

• Sandia's Microencapsulation Gives Entrepreneur Glow
• ARS Research Shows Plant Pigment Supports Bone Health
• NASA Study Investigates Stress in Pilots
• Obama Picks Berkeley National Laboratory Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary
• USDA Announces $477 Million in Funding for Schools, Roads
• CDC Reports on Public Health in Era of Declining Funding
• New Tool Gives Researchers a Glimpse of Biomolecules in Motion
• Crane EnGAGEs in Cooperative Technology Transfer

December 2008

• NIH and National Council of Negro Women Collaborate to Help Children Maintain a Healthy Weight
• MBAs Bridge Gap Between Clean Technologies and the Marketplace
• BNL Receives Patent for Improved Cancer Therapy, Looking for Industrial Partners
• The Effects of Converting Agricultural Land to Urban Land on Irrigation Water in Colorado
• Rocket Motor Test Helps NASA's Shuttle and Ares I
• Covington Named AEDC Executive Director
• NIAID, Merial Develop Oral Vaccine to Combat Rabies in Wildlife
• SPAWAR Enhances Robotic Radio Relay Communications

November 2008

• National Institute of Standards and Technology Introduces New Method for Fireproofing Material
• Los Alamos Helps Bioscience Researchers
• Lab in the Spotlight: Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab
• Starting a New Day Around the Globe with Sustainable Energy Solutions
• FAA Enters CRADA with Network Centric
• ARL-Devised Data Assessment System Receives U.S. Patent
• NOAA Research Reveals Fifth Largest Ozone Hole
• Oak Ridge Computer Rated World's Fastest for Science

October 2008

• NASA Study Illustrates How Global Peak Oil Production Could Impact Climate
• Navy Lab Crosses the Atlantic to Discuss T2
• Lab in the Spotlight: Columbia Environmental Research Center
• Lab Announces Selection of Partner for Venture Acceleration Initiative
• State & Local Fusion Centers
• DOE Solicitation for $8B for Clean Coal Technologies
• New Developments in the Use of Lights to Scare Birds From Aircraft
• A Little-Known Grass Gains Research Fame

September 2008

• A First in Integrated Nanowire Sensor Circuitry
• Sandia Sends Sensors into Space to Detect Nuclear Blasts Globally
• Lab in the Spotlight: TARDEC
• Keep Your Shoes, Step Inside; Your Scan Will Be Done in 30 Seconds
• Ohio Astronauts Celebrate NASA's 50th Anniversary
• NSA, DHS CAE-Rs
• NREL and Optony Collaborate on Developing Cost-Competitive Approach for Solar Electricity
• SSC San Diego Enters Soil Tech License

August 2008

• Cancer Research: Tools for Partnership and Commercialization
• Fort Detrick Leads Tech Tran Initiative
• DOE Hosts First Lab Directors Forum
• NIST's Energy-Saving Chill
• Science of Storms
• Science Education
• New Study Sheds Light on the Growing U.S. Wind Power Market
• Irregular Exercise May Add Pounds

July 2008

• Federal-State Partnership Protects Forest Resources, Generates Funds for Schools, Universities, and County Services
• Lab in the Spotlight: PIADC
• Sandia Develops Model of Iraq Water System
• Renewable Energy in Marketplace
• TVA Sponsors More than 250 Energy Efficient Homes
• LBNL Honored
• WorldWideScience.org
• Air Force Patents Stable New Welding Cart Improving Safety in the Workplace
• Missile Defense Agency Leads Way to Fiberless Data Made Easy

June 2008

• Sandia Licenses Improved Flash-Bang Technology
• Ensuring America's Power Stays On
• NASA/Northrop Agreement Opens Door to Science Investigation
• Fulbright to FPL
• Aim High, Go "Green"
• Homeland Security Creates S&T Tech Solutions
• A New Polymer Product from Soy Oil, Not Petroleum
• Y-12 Summer Camp Brings Space to Students

April/May 2008

• FLC Conference Attracts Record Number
• NIST Researchers Cool Rare Element
• Navy Techs for MBAs
• Personius Added to Reclamation Leadership
• CINT Wins DOE Secretary's Achievement Award
• Breaking the Barrier Toward Nanometer X-ray Resolution

February 2008

• ORNL Develops High-Res Population Model of World
• Evolving Fiber Optics Thru NanoTech
• NASA's Pilots Recognized for Artwork
• AFCEE Workshop
• Sandia Wins Enviro Award
• NREL Commercialization Project Accelerates PV Tech
• President's Budget Requests 22 Percent Boost for NIST Core Programs
• Breaking the Barrier Toward Nanometer X-ray Resolution

January 2008

• AFRL Challenge Develops Vehicle-Halting Systems
• NIST System Maps Nano Properties
• Clean Water, From Idaho to Iraq
• FIC: 20 Ways to Fight Disease
• AFRL/RH Director Ruck Steps Down
• CAST Launches New Air Safety Website
• New Magnet Design Continues Magnet Lab's Tradition of Innovation
• Smaller Asteroids May Pose Greater Danger Than Previously Believed
• NASA Needs Data

December 2007

• Ames Laboratory Builds Computational Chemistry "Toolbox"
• UA, Cleveland State Joining Forces to Get Ideas into Marketplace
• Emergency Preparedness Blog
• USFS Scientists Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
• Sensor Powerful Enough for Fetal Heart Monitoring
• Brookhaven Develops New DNA-Based Nano Assembly Technique
• FLC Profiles Laboratories

October/November 2007

• Business Beams Over Hybrid Solar Lighting
• DHS Transportation Lab Makes Flying Safer
• Sandia, R&D Awards
• Fab Labs Make Manufacturing Personal
• Office of Technology Transfer Announces Development Awards
• Growth of China, India Means Challenge, Opportunity for Global Innovation
• Idaho Laboratory Brings Science to Its Future

September 2007

• Engineers Develop Miniaturized Rubber Removal Package for Runways
• FLC Chair Linsenmeyer Bids Farewell
• When Disaster Strikes
• Wu Named to Computerworld's "40 Under 40" list of Rising Stars
• Army Communications and Electronics Center to Launch Largest Future Technology Demo
• BLM to Facilitate Renewable Energy Development on Federal Lands
• Cognitive S&T Program Becomes Sandia Initiative

August 2007

• AFRL Improves Firefighter Safety
• Corrosion Protection for Space and Beyond
• Orbach to Lead DOE Tech Transfer
• Bureau of Reclamation Awards Contract for Hydroelectric Units at Hoover, Davis and Parker Dams
• NIST Recommends Building Code Changes
• PPPL Assists in the Development of Artificial Muscle

July 2007

• Behind Closed Doors: Beware the Air
• Sandia Invention to Make Your Flight Safer
• CCAT Awards Omega $49K
• Local Company Gets LANL Enviro Remediation Contract
• Los Alamos Laboratory Techs Capture R&D 100 Awards
• OSU's Catlos Reaps Rewards of Research

June 2007

• Sandia's Tech for 24/7 Toxin Detection
• FLC Brings Tech Transfer Event of the Year to Texas
• FAA, Drexel University CRADA
• Sandia's Solar Collector System
• NETL Oversees DOE's FutureGen Project
• Texas Intruments, NASA Goddard Collaboration
• Lab-on-a-Chip Device from Berkeley Lab to Speed Proteomics Research
• Deiter, Sprake Win FLC Elections

March 2007

• AFRL Solar Cells Power NASA's Mars Rovers
• Needing a Hydrogen Breakthrough
• SRNL's SmartLatch™ Going to WBT
• FAA to Better Air Traffic Control
• Wavelets, Mathematics Detect Mines, Cancer
• Beverage Tech Money
• Idaho Lab Promotes the Future of R&D by Making Students Engineers for a Day

February 2007

• SIDS Infants Show Abnormalities in Brain Area Controlling Breathing, Heart Rate
• LLNL, UC Davis Fight Cancer
• Y-12 Honors 22 Invention Disclosures
• NASA Awards SOFIA Development to L-3
• U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station Created
• FY2008 Budget for Technology
• USAMRIID Scientists Develop Commercial System to Combat Bioterrorism

January 2007

• Urgent Call Relaunches Wood Propellers
• NASA Bridges Safety Gap
• NSWC's Deiter Wins Linsteadt Award
• SRNL, UTEK License RadRope™
• Edwards Wins ATCA
• NIST to Preserve America's "Birth Certificate"

December 2006

• Argonne's Coin Cell NMR/MRI Imager
• Los Alamos, CIVA Partner to Stop Avian Flu
• LBNL's Genome Center
• INL's Explosive Detection
• Ulysses Starts New Journey Around Sun
• Y-12 and Fisk University Partnership
• PNNL Develops Life-Saving Bioactive Coating

October/November 2006

• Aviation Safety Thru 3-D Audio
• Combustion Tech Poised for Marketplace
• George Smoot of LBNL Wins Nobel Prize in Physics
• FLC Mid-Continent Region Rewards Achievements
• The History Mystery of HIV/AIDS and Genetics

September 2006

• Geology Summer School
• Therapeutic Agent Approved for Treatment of HIV
• Teaming with Rockwell Collins Sends miniSAR Soaring
• AFRL Engineer Receives Volunteer Excellence Award
• LBNL Wins Four R&D 100 Awards
• ORNL's Climate Tech
• NETL's CO₂ Sequestering
• NASA Wind Energy Research Reaps Rewards

August 2006

• Sandia's TufFoam™ Churns Up Waves of Industry Interest
• Argonne Tests Valves for Diesel, Gas Engines
• NASA Kennedy Reduces Groundwater Contamination
• Federal Laboratories Invited to Join IRI
• INL Technology Receives R&D 100 Award and Nano 50 Award
• NASVF: Innovation Capital Done Right
• Low Vitamin D Levels Reported in Young African-Americans
• Howard College Gets Grant for T2
• BNL's Winning Team
• OSU, Better World Project