FLC Awards Archive
— 1987
Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer
Department
of Energy
Argonne
National Laboratory
Melvin W. Findlay, Takaaki Otagawa,
William R. Penrose, Joseph R. Stetter, Solomon
Zaromb
Developing and fully commercializing a portable
chemical analyzer.
Idaho
National Engineering Laboratory
Doyle L. Batt, Philip E. MacDonald,
Kenneth D. Russell, Martin B. Sattison, Dale
E. Snider, Kurt L. Wagner
Initiative and teamwork demonstrated in accomplishing
the transfer of the INEL technology, Integrated
Reliability and risk Analysis System (IRRAS),
to users outside the nuclear research community.
Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
Barbara Atkinson, Dieter Fuss,
Patrick Gray, Barbara Lopossa, Sam Mendicino
Transfer of the LLNL-developed LINCS Distributed
Operating System to private industry.
Los
Alamos National Laboratory
Robert F. Benjamin
For the invention, development, patenting, and
licensing of production rights for a "microballoon
optical pin" for measuring strong pressure
pulses in hostile environments.
Mound
Applied Technologies
Patrick Adams, Dan Carfagno, Howard
Charbeneau, Kenneth DeVilbis, Charles Friedman,
Mark Gibson, Dennis McNeil, Joseph Olekas, Larry
Roush
Initiative in transferring of emergency preparedness
techniques to the city of Miamisburg, Ohio,
which helped the city in its management of a
1986 train derailment and resulting phosphorous-carrying
freight car explosion.
Oak
Ridge Institute for Science & Education
Peter G. Groer, Steven H. Huff
Developing and promoting an innovative software
package used to estimate the probability that
a person's cancer was caused by radiation exposure.
Oak
Ridge National Laboratory
Karl W. Haff, Eugene Newman, Dan
W. Ramey, J. Andrew Tompkins
Developing and transferring to the public and
government sectors of cost-and energy-efficient
radioluminescent lights for airfield lighting
systems.
Paul F. Becher, Terry N. TiegsTransferring
technology related to silicon carbide whisker-alumina
composites used in high strength/toughness applications
by industrial manufacturers of cutting tools.
Pacific
Northwest Laboratory
Bruce A. Bushaw, Tom J. Whitaker
Innovative development of the kinetic phosphorimetry
technique and resolute endeavors to make the
development of its benefits available to the
uranium industry through commercial enterprise.
Kenneth R. Ames, James M. Doesburg,
Eugene A. Eschbach, Roy C. Kelley, David A.
Myers, Ronald Schalla
Commitment to the design, development and transfer
of a low-cost sampling pump and steadfast pursuit
of other avenues of commercialization when initial
efforts failed.
Sandia
National Laboratories (New Mexico)
Dale R. Boehme, Monte C. Nichols
Developing the Z-Ray Microanalyzer and transfer
of the technology to Kevex Corporation for commercial
production.
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