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Commerce’s
NIST Announces 16 New Advanced Technology Program Awards
New
blade technology that could make energy generation by wind turbines
more efficient, virus-resistant
tissues for skin grafts, a method
for operating a car’s devices through conversational speech,
and an
automated Web-searching and data organizing software system are among
the novel technologies to be developed by the private sector with support
from 16 awards announced today by the Commerce Department’s National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced
Technology Program (ATP). The new awards represent a total of up to
$35.46 million in ATP funding and an industry share of up to $22.28 million,
if all projects are carried through to completion.
The 13 individual
companies and their projects selected for funding are:·
- AdvanTek
International LLC (Boothwyn, Pa.)
Develop a rotor technology that allows blades to be 30 percent longer
without increasing structural and fatigue loads, improves wind turbine
output by 25 percent and makes wind farms cost effective in moderate-wind
regions.
Read
more.
- Bit 9,
Inc. (Somerville, Mass.)
Develop a
system that will proactively protect computers and networks from attack,
even if the virus or attack is unknown, as opposed to current protection
systems that can react only to known threats. Read
more.
- Chromatin
Inc. (Chicago, Ill.)
Develop mini-chromosome technology for simultaneous introduction of
multiple genes into plants to produce improved crops for agricultural,
industrial and pharmaceutical products. Read
more.
- HandyLab
Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Develop a highly sensitive, low-cost and portable DNA analysis device
using electrochemical detection of real-time polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) instead of a fluorescence detection scheme. Read
more.
- Imaging
Systems Technology (Toledo, Ohio)
Develop a novel plasma display panel structure that uses hollow glass
microspheres containing ultrapure ionizable gas as the addressable pixel
elements, uses a flexible substrate and substantially lowers the cost
of displays. Read
more.
- InRAD L.L.C.
(Knoxville, Tenn.)
Develop an automated software system to search for and organize content
from Internet sites and databases that precisely matches a user’s
information requirements, thereby expediting research and development
and reducing research costs. Read
more.
- PowerSicel
Inc. (Boulder, Colo.)
Develop new high-performance power transistors operating at 10 times
the power density and five times the efficiency of conventional power
transistors, enabling true broadband ultralinear power amplifiers. Read
more.
- Revivicor
Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.)
Develop a technology for producing safer xenograft tissues by developing
donor pigs that are incapable of replicating or propagating porcine
endogenous retrovirus (PERV) or its derivatives. Read
more.
- Rosetta-Wireless
Corp. (West Chicago, Ill.)
Develop a wallet-sized, wireless server for America's mobile workforce
that will provide medical, sales, and service personnel with secure,
instant access to all e-mail and automatically updated data files, everywhere.
Read
more.
- Stratatech
Corp. (Madison, Wisc.)
Develop and demonstrate methods to enable ice-free freezing and drying
processes for room-temperature preservation and shipping of living cells,
tissues and tissue-engineered products. Read
more.
- Supertron
Technologies Inc. (Newark, N.J.)
Design, build and test arrays of superconducting coils that will greatly
improve image quality and reduce image acquisition time in magnetic
resonance imaging procedures. Read
more.
- TIAX LLC
(Cambridge, Mass.)
Design and demonstrate technologies for low-cost solid oxide fuel cells
that use novel materials to interconnect components and thereby increase
durability and power. Read
more.
- Virent
Energy Systems LLC (Madison, Wisc.)
Develop and demonstrate catalyst and reactor technologies that use non-flammable,
renewable feedstocks to produce hydrogen for fuel cells offering five
times the energy density of advanced batteries. Read
more.
The three joint venture
partnerships (lead partner listed first) and their projects selected for
funding are:
- Ford Motor
Company (Dearborn, Mich.) in partnership with American Technology Inc.
(Shelton, Conn.), Edison Welding Institute (Columbus, Ohio), and Sonobond
Ultrasonics Inc. (West Chester, Pa.)
Develop ultrasonic metal welding technology for the mass production
of aluminum automobile bodies to improve vehicle fuel economy. Read
more.
- Motorola
Inc., Motorola Labs (Tempe, Ariz.) in partnership with Englehard Corp.
(Iselin, N.J.)
Develop a miniature catalyst fuel processor that will provide high energy
density and higher power for a wide range of fuel cell-based portable
power applications. Read
more.
- Robert
Bosch Corp. Research and Technology Center (Palo Alto, Calif.) in partnership
with SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.), Stanford University (Palo
Alto, Calif.), Volkswagen of America Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.)
Develop an interactive natural-language dialogue system that operates
various in-car devices through conversational speech, thus making driving
easier and safer. Read
more.
The ATP supports
projects that industry cannot fully fund on its own because of significant
technical risks. ATP awards are made on the basis of rigorous competitive
peer review considering scientific and technical merit of each proposal.
In addition, awards are based on the potential for broad based economic
benefits; the need for ATP funding; and evidence of a clear commercialization
pathway and broad diffusion.
Created: 06/30/03
Last updated:
03/15/2004
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