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NASA SBIR: Selected Successes

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Acellent Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Hybrid Piezoelectric/Fiber-Optic Layer and System for Structural Health Monitoring

Accurate Automation Corporation, Chattannoga, TN

A Distributed Guidance and Control System for Satellite Constellations
Flight Tests of the Low Speed Characteristics of a Hypersonic Waverider Configuration
Neural Control System for Propulsion System
Hypersonic Neurocontrol Actuator and Testbed (LoFLYTE)
Neural Air Data Sensing and Control for Hypersonic Vehicles
Weakly Ionized Gas Drag Reduction System

Adroit Systems Incorporated, Bellevue, WA/(Acquired by SRA International, Alexandria, VA)

Pulse Detonation Technology Development

Advanced Bionics, Inc., Hopkins, MN

Bearing and Seal-Free Fluid Pump

Advanced Ceramics Corporation (ACC), Lakewood, OH

Durable Interface Coatings for Ceramic Matrix Composites

Advanced Ceramics Research Inc., Tucson, AZ

High Pressure and Temperature Fused Deposition System
Rapid Prototyping of Continuous-Fiber-Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composites

Advanced Fuel Research, Inc., East Hartford, CT

A Hybrid Pyrolysis/Incineration System for Solid Waste Resource Recovery

Advanced Modular Power Systems, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

AMTEC Energy Conversion Technology

Advanced Projects Research, Inc., La Verne, CA

Enhanced Combustion Pulsejet Engine (ECPE) for Mach 0 to 3 Applications

Advanced Research & Applications Corp., Sunnyvale, CA

ALPHA Radiographic Detector
Large Area Detector for Radiographic Measurements

Advanced Technology Materials, Inc., Danbury, CT

High Temperature Gallium Nitride-Based Sensors and Electronics

Aeptec Microsystems, Inc., Rockville, MD

Mobile Communication and Information Systems to Support Emergency Management

AeroAstro, Inc. Herndon, VA

X-band Communications System for Nanospacecraft

Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA

Plant Fluorenscence Sensor

Aerometrics, Sunnyvale, CA

Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer
Simultaneous Measurement of Temperature, Size, and Velocity of Drops in Sprays

Aerometrics/TSI Inc., Shoreview, MN

Advanced Instrumentation for Aircraft Icing Research

Aeroponics International (formerly EnviroGen, Inc.), Berthoud, CO

A High Performance, Gravity Insensitive, Enclosed Aeroponic System for Food Production in Space

AI Signal Research, Inc., Huntsville, AL

Acoustic Emission Bearing Fault Diagnostics System
PC-Based Vibration Monitoring & Diagnostics System (PC-VMDS) for Machinery

PC-SIGNAL: PC-Based Dynamic Signal Analysis Software

AI Ware, Inc., Cleveland, OH /(acquired by Computer Associates International, Inc., Islandia, NY)

Design of Experiments Module

Alpha STAR Corporation, Long Beach, CA

Concurrent Probabilistic Simulation of High Temperature Composite Structural Response
GENOA/Progressive Failure Analysis (GENOA/PFA) Software System

American Electronics, Inc., Vienna, VA

VHF Radar Sensor for Measurement of Terrestrial Vegetative Biomass

American GNC Corporation, Simi Valley, CA

High Precision Autonomous Vehicle Operation

Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS), Knoxville, TN

New Instrumentation Technologies for Testing the Performance of Solid Rocket Motor Nozzles

Analytical Spectral Devices, Inc., Boulder, CO

Instrumentation for In Situ Measurement of Apparent Bio-Optical Properties

A&P Technology, Inc., Cincinnati, OH

Affordable Composite Fan Case with Damage Tolerant Braided Fiber Architecture

Applied Material Technologies, Inc., Fountain Valley, CA

STABLCOR Printed Circuit Boards

Applied Mathematical Physics Research, Inc., Lexington, MA

SOPHI: Segmented Optics Phase Integration

Applied Research Associates (ARA)- Littleton, CO

Prediction of Launch Vehicle Ignition Overpressure and Liftoff Acoustic Environments

Applied Research Associates (ARA) - Profes, Raleigh, NC

Portable Parallel Stochastic Optimization for Aeropropulsion Component Design

Applied Spectrometry Associates, Inc., Waukesha, WI

ChemScan Process Analyzer

Applied Technology Associates, Albuquerque, NM

Magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) Stable Reference (MSTAR)

Argonide Corporation, Sanford, FL

Nano Ceramic Sterilization Filter

ARNAV Systems, Inc., Puyallup, WA

General Aviation Electronic Pilot Reports

Aspen Systems, Inc., Marlborough, MA

Aerogel Technology Advancements
Advanced Aerogel Insulation Products

ASRC Aerospace Corporation, Greenbelt, MD

A Very Low Power, Highly Integrated Multi-Channel Scaler

AST Engineering Services, Inc., Englewood, CO

Qase Rt: Engineering Software Tool

ATK Space Systems (formerly AEC-Able Engineering Company, Inc.) Goleta, CA

Advanced Flexible Thin Film PV (FTFPV) Ultra Flex Solar Array System
Dimensionally-Stable Articulated Deployable Mast

Electrostatically Clean Solar Array (ESCA) System
Stretched Lens Array SquareRigger (SLASR)

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, Manassas, VA

Remotely Piloted Stratospheric Aircraft
Single Lever Power Control for General Aviation and Unmanned Aircraft

Automotive Resources, Inc. Sandpoint, ID

The SmartPlug™ Catalitytic Ignition System

AZ Technology, Inc., Huntsville, AL

Space Portable SpectroReflectometer (SPSR)
Internet-Based Collaboration and Communications Systems
Web-Based Workgroup, Training, and Outreach Tools
Internet Teleoperations and Collaboration Tools

 

B


Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc., South St. Paul, MN

The BRS Parachute Recovery System

Barr Associates, Inc., Westford, MA

Image Quality, Space Qualified Interference Filters

Barrett Technology, Inc., Cambridge, MA

Barrett Hand
Whole-Arm Manipulation System

Barringer Patents, Inc., Golden, CO

Radar Remote Detection System for Sub-Surface Features

Bauer Associates, Inc., Wellesley, MA

Extended Range Profiling
Laser-based Measurement Technique for Optical Surfaces
Multi-point In-situ Profiling of Large Aspherics

Bend Research, Inc., Bend, OR

Liquid-Sorbent/Membrane-Contactor (LSMC) for CO2 Removal
Membrane-based Washwater Recovery System

Biospace International, Inc., Huntsville, AL

Improving Crystal Quality to Enable the Development of New Drugs

Biospherical Instruments, Inc., San Diego, CA

Moored Oceanographic Spectroradiometer
Marine Instrument for Measuring Primary (Phytoplankton) Production

Blue Line Engineering Co, Colorado Springs, CO

Fully Active Scale Telescope (FAST)

Boston Applied Technologies (originally, NZ Applied Technologies), Woburn, MA

Ferroelectric Films Grown on Ferrite Substrates

Boulder Innovative Technologies (BIT) Inc. and ZeoponiX, Inc., Boulder, CO.

Built-In Plant Nutrient

Boulder Nonlinear Systems, Inc., Lafayette, CO

High Speed, Compact Spatial Light Modulator

Brimrose Corporation of America, Baltimore, MD

Compact Near-Infrared Spectrometer
Novel Photorefractive Material ZnTe:V for Optical Processing

Busek Co., Inc., Natick, MA

MicroNewton Thruster (MNT)


C

Cambridge Research & Instruments, Inc., Cambridge, MA

Automated Characterization & Calibration of Ultraviolet Spectrophometers Using Intensity-Stabilized Lasers
Electrically Tunable Liquid Crystal Spectral Image Filters

Carbotek Development Laboratories, Houston, TX

Lunar Oxygen Production from Ilmenite/Fluid Particle Processing

CardioDynamics International Corp., San Diego, CA

Non-Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring System

Ceramic Composites, Inc., Millersville, MD

Oxidation Resistant Rocket Thrusters for High Performance Propellants

CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL

A Probability Density Function (PDF) Method for Turbulent Reacting Flow
Advanced CFD Methodology for Fast Flow-Transients
Low-NOx Fuel-Injector for Aircraft-Engine Combustors
Microscopic & Macrocospic Modeling of Layer Growth Kinetics & Morphology in Vapor Deposition Processing
Unstructured Density Based CFD Methodology for Gas Turbine Combustor Applications

Charles River Analytics, Inc., Cambridge, MA

A Distributed Environment for Onboard Planning and Scheduling
Artificial Neural Network Algorithms
Hybrid Neural Expert System

Ciencia, Inc., East Hartford, CT

Portable Photosynthesis Analyzer

Cirrus Design Corporation, Duluth, MN

Low Cost Electromagnetic De-Icer for Natural Laminar Flow Airfoils

Clearwater Instrumentation, Inc., Water, MA

Autonomous Drifting Ocean Station (ADOS)

Clever Fellows Innovation Consortium, Inc., Troy, NY

Alternator and Suspension for Free Piston Stirling Engines 

Coherent Technologies, Inc. (CTI), Lafayette, CO

Laser Radar Vibrometer
LIDAR Technologies Benefiting from SPARCLE

Combustion Research and Flow Technology, Inc. (CRAFT Tech), Pipersville, PA

Application of Advanced Tools in Support of NGLT Technologies
Computational Modeling Software

Composite Optics, Inc., San Diego, CA

Arc-Second Stability of Graphite Fiber Reinforced Composite Optical Bench Via Passive
Thermal Management
Light Weight Composite Mirrors for Science Instruments

Comptek Amherst, Inc., Buffalo, NY

Dynamically Reconfiguration Vision

Computer Motion, Inc. (merged with Intuitive Surgical, Inc.), Sunnyvale, CA

Automated Robotic Assistant for Surgeon

Conax Buffalo Technologies L.L.C. Laboratories, Buffalo, NY

Blackbody High Temperature Optical Sensor

Concepts ETI, Inc. White River Junction, VT

Integrated Turbopump Design System for Improved Performance and Reduced Cost

Containerless Research, Inc., Evanston, IL

High Temperature Thermophysical Property Measurements in Microgravity
Portable, Hyperspectral Polarization Profiler For Remote Sensing of Vegetation
REAl™ Glass Products for Optical and Structural Applications
Structure-Property Correlations and Phase Transitions

Continuum Dynamics, Inc., Ewing, NJ

Computational Method for Aeroelastic Problem in Turbomachinery

Convolve, Inc., Armonk, NY

Input Shaping TM Software for Machine Control

Corning-OCA Applied Optics, Inc., Garden Grove, CA
Aspheric Surface Figuring Using Plasma Assisted Chemical Etching
Ultra-Lightweight, Large-Aperture, Space-Based Telescope

Cox & Company, Inc., New York, NY

Economic Hybrid Anti-Icing System

Creare, Inc., Hanover, NH

A Capacitive Void Fraction Instrument For Two-Phase Flow in Microgravity
Droplet Evaporator
Energy Conversion Technology
Internally Drained Condenser
Long Life Cryogenic Cooler
Miniature Cryogenic Turboalternator
Miniaturized Turbomolecular Vacuum Pump
Motran-Multiphase System Simulator
Plasma-Sprayed Thin-Film Selective Emitters
Ring Buffered Network Bus (RBNB)
Unstructured Adapted Meshes

CSA Engineering, Inc., Palto Alto, CA

High Damping for Lightweight Structures

Cullimore & Ring Technologies, Littleton, CO and Swales and Asociates, Beltsville, MD

Cryogenic Heat Transport System
SINDA/FLUINT
Real-Time Graphical Thermal/Fluid System
OptiOpt: Integrated Design and Optimization of Thermal/Structural/Optical Systems

CVC Products, Inc., Rochester, NY

Thin Film Deposition System for Superconducting Materials

Cybernet Systems Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI

Force Feedback Hand Controller
Gesture Based Multimedia Information Kiosk
Intelligent Robot/Sensor Operations System

Cybersonics, Inc., Erie, PA

Ultrasonic Drill and Corer

D


Daat Research Corporation, Hanover, NH

Advanced CFD Tools for Designing Combustion Systems & Material Processing

DAR Corporation, Lawrence, KA

Aviation Design Software

Dean Applied Technology Company, Inc., Huntsville, AL

Improved Stirling Cycle Technology for Zero-G Spacecraft Refrigeration Systems
Pulse-Tube Cryogenic Refrigerator

Deep Ocean Engineering, Inc., (DOEI), San Leandro, CA

Underwater Remotely Guided Vehicle

DelSys, Boston, MA

Expandable 4-channel EMG Data Logger

DeMaria Electro-Optics Systems, Inc., Bloomfield, CT

Far Infrared Source for Flight Science Instruments
Tunable Laser for Ground-Based and Airborne Submillimeter Radiometers

Digiray Corporation, San Ramon, CA

Reverse-Geometry Digital X-Ray System

DigitalSpace Corporation (DSC), Santa Cruz, CA

Lunar Telerobotics Design Simulation

Dimension Technologies Inc., Rochester, NY

High-Resolution 3D Display

Displaytech, Inc. LongMont, CO

Miniature High-Resolution Display

Draw Computing Associates, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

Immersive Control of Human Interaction with Multi-Variate Data

Duncan Technologies, Inc. New Castle, CA

Bi-Directional Fiberoptic Coupler

Duncan Technologies, Inc. (DTI), Auburn, CA

Color Hydrogen Flame Imaging System  
Smart Laser Ignitor for Reaction Control System (RCS) Thrusters


EAI Simulation Associates, Inc., West Long Branch, NJ

Digital Simulation Computer 

e beam, Inc. (formerly FDE, Inc.), Beaverton, OR

A Low Power Dispenser Cathode Assembly for Space Communications
Oxides Cathodes

EIC Laboratories, Inc., Norwood, MA

A Rechargeable Solid-State Battery 
Raman Spectrograph 
Portable Raman Spectometer With Fiber Optic Probe Sensor 
Variable Transmittance Space Suit Visor 

Electric Propulsion Laboratory, Inc., Monument, CO

Low Voltage Arc Head Vacuum Welding
ProSEDS Plasma Contactor System

ElectroChem Inc., Woburn, MA

High Efficiency Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

Eltron Research, Inc., Boulder, CO

Electrolytic Water Purification System 
Ionic and Electronically Conducting Ceramic Materials
Low-Cost Fabrication of High-Temperature Polyimide Matrix Composites
Membrane for Selective Removal of Ammonium Ions from Water 
Promotion of the Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction with Nanoscale Bimetallic Catalysts

EMC Technology, Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ

Passive Temperature Compensating Attenuator

Emcore Corporation, Somerset, NJ

GaN Based High Temperature Ultraviolet Photodetectors

Energy Science Labs, Inc., San Diego, CA

Carbon Grid Materials for Ion Engines
Composite Regenerator for Stirling Engine
 
Regeneratively Cooled Composite Structure for Lightweight Engines

Engineering Acoustics, Inc. Winter Park, FL

         Point Coupled Displacement Sensor

Engineering Sciences, Inc., Huntsville, AL

Launch Vehicle Performance Analysis Tool
Unified, Multi-Phase, Numerical Method Using Volume-of-Fluid Transport Models

Engineering Research and Consulting, Inc., Tullahoma, TN

Application of Intelligent Systems to Complex Processess

ENSCO, Inc., Springfield, VA

Automated Recertification Training System (ARTS)
Meteorological Monitoring System

Entech, Inc., Keller, TX

Fresnel Lens Photovoltaic Concentrator Array

Environmental Robots, Inc., Albuquerque, NM

Development of Synthetic Muscle systems for NASA Space Robotics/EVA Applications

Epsilon Lambda Electronics Corp., Geneva, IL

RF Components for Satellite Communications System Using Insular Guides

Essential Research, Inc. (ERI) - Cleveland, OH

Ultra-High-Efficiency, Monolithic, Dual-Junction Solar Cells

E-tek Dynamics, Inc., San Jose, CA

Tunable Laser Diode and Optical Phase-Lock Loop 

Expert Microsystems, Inc., Orangevale, CA

Real-Time Sensor Validation

Exos, Inc., Woburn, MA

Sensory Exoskeleton Arm-Master for Robot Control

F


Fiber & Sensor Technologies (F&S), Inc., Blacksburg, VA

Optical Fiber Strain Gage 
Metal-Coated Optical Fiber-Based Temperature & Pressure Sensors for Aerospace & Dual-Use Applications

Fibertek, Inc., Herndon, VA

Advanced, Diode-Pumped, Cavity-Dumped Laser for Space-Based Altimetry
Packaging Technology for Long-Lifetime Space-Based Lasers

Fideris, Inc. (formerly a division of Lynntech, Inc.), College Station, TX

Novel Processing Technology for Electronically Conducting Polymers

Flight Landata, Inc., Lawrence, MA

An Airborne VNIR and SWIR Imaging Spectrometer

Foster-Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA

Application of Refrigerant Mixtures for Space Thermal Management
Crew Activity Analyzer
Electronically Switchable Bragg Gratings (ESBGs)

Fiber Optic FTIR Spectroscopy
High Specific Strength Metal Matrix Composites for Turbomachinery Structures
Liquid Crystal Polymers for Printed Wiring Boards 
Near Hermetic Packaging Technology for MMIC Devices
Processing Technology for Lyotropic Polymers
WINCOMM Project Pilot Weather Advisor
YAG Reinforcement Preforms for CMCs

Frederick A. Costello, Inc., Herndon, VA

TCON™ Concurrent Engineering Software Suite

G


Gallia, Inc., Weston, MA

Application of GaS in the Passivation of GaAs and Related Alloys

Garman Systems, Inc., Nashville, TN

Unobtrusive Sensor and Effector Technology with Optical Applications

GDA Corporation - State College, PA

Object and Pattern Recognition System

Geo-Centers, Inc., Newton Centre, MA

Ethylene Monittoring and Control System
Porous Polymer Optrode Monitoring System

Geophex, Ltd., Raleigh, NC

Advanced Wideband Electromagnetic Sensors
Electromagnetic Sensor for Subsurface Exploration

General Pneumatics Corporation (GPC), Phoenix, AZ

Anti-Clogging, Flow-Regulating, Joule-Thomson Cryostat

Giner, Inc., Waltham, MA

Electrochemical Super Capacitors for Electromechanical Actuators

Giordano Automation Corporation, Sparta, NJ

Prognostics Framework for System Health Management

Global Aerospace Corporation, Altadena, CA

Balloon Latitude Trajectory Control System
Trajectory and Performance Models for Earth and Planetary Balloons

Global Aircraft Corporation, Starkville, MS

Quasi-Constant Speed Coomposite Propellers

GMD Products, Bacharach, Inc., PA

Sure Spot® Dosimeter Badge

GPD Optoelectronics Corp, Salem, NH

Low-Noise Cryogenic Germanium Junction Field-Effect Transistor


Hittite Microwave Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

Millimeter Converters for Satellite Communications

Hoh Aeronautics, Inc., Lomita, CA

Low-Cost, Lightweight Altitude Command Augmentation System for Civil Helicopters

Honeybee Robotics, Inc., New York, NY

Planetary Subsurface Sample Acquisition System
Rectangular-Area 3D Locking Sprag 

HyPerComp Engineering, Brigham City, UT

Damage-Tolerant/Robust Pressure Vessels with “Insensitive Munitions” Benign Failure Capability

Hyper-Therm High-Temperature Composites, Inc., Huntington Beach, CA

High Oxygen Affinity Doping of Boron Nitride for Tough, Durable SiC/SiC Composites

Hypres, Inc., Elmsford, NY

SQUID Array Amplifiers for Cryogenic Detector Arrays 
Superconducting Digitizer for Radio Astronomy 

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