Tag: DoD
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Defense/IT Developer Expanding R&D Labs, Staffing
Dynetics, a developer of defense/aerospace and IT systems in Huntsville, Alabama said Thursday it plans to add a new R&D and prototyping facility to its current Huntsville location. The company says it expects to hire 350 new workers over three years to staff the facility, but gave no timetable for when construction work begins. The…
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DoD Awards Contract for Bioweapon Therapies
Morphotek Inc., a developer of protein and antibody products in Exton, Pennsylvania, said it received a $2.5 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to fund further development of the company’s monoclonal antibody therapies against disease-causing staphylococcal strains and toxins. In February 2008, Morphotek received funding to support initial development of these therapies.…
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Grant Awarded to Develop Blood Pathogens Diagnostics Device
The U.S. Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) awarded one of its Applied Research and Technology Development grants to Micronics Inc., a medical diagnostics device company in Redmond, Washington. The award, for $2.6 million, will develop the company’s system for point-of-care molecular diagnosis of infectious pathogens. In its announcement of research needs, DMRDP called…
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University, Entrepreneurs Advance Biofuels for U.S. Military
Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York joined today with two entrepreneurs to advance the use of biofuels by the U.S. armed forces as an alternative energy source. The entrepreneurs, John Fox and Wayne Arden, have proposed producing biodiesel in Afghanistan as a way of reducing risks to American troops and building a new, sustainable industry…
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Noninvasive Alcohol Test Gains U.S. Army Grant
The U.S. Army has awarded a grant to TruTouch Technologies, a developer of alcohol testing systems in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the company to further develop its technology. The grant for $438,000 was awarded by the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center at Fort Detrick,…
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Virginia Medical Device Company Wins Small Business Grants
HemoSonics LLC, a developer of blood diagnostics devices in Charlottesville, Virginia, has received three grants totaling some $2 million from National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Office of Naval Research. The company was founded by three faculty members at University of Virginia, also in Charlottesville, to commercialize their research in biomedical engineering. HemoSonics’ technology, called…
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First Wave Energy Device Connected to Power Grid
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) in Pennington, New Jersey, says it has completed the first-ever grid connection of a wave energy device in the United States at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Oahu. The grid connection uses OPT’s PowerBuoy systems to produce what the company calls utility-grade, renewable energy that can be delivered compliant with national…
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Contract Awarded for Radiation Countermeasure Drug
Cleveland BioLabs Inc., a drug development company in Buffalo, New York, received a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to develop and stockpile its drug CBLB502 as a medical radiation countermeasure. The initial contract provides $14.8 million for advanced development of the drug, with later options worth $30 million for purchase of doses.…
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Water Blade Technology Developed to Disable IEDs
A device developed at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico shoots a blade of water capable of penetrating steel that helps American troops in Afghanistan disable deadly improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. Sandia licensed the technology to TEAM Technologies Inc., also in Albuquerque. The company made its first shipment of some 3,000 new water…
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Contract Awarded for Microgrid Powered Military Vehicles
Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) of Vancouver, Canada received a contract from the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center for four trucks, powered only by electricity, and designed to work with a microgrid, a localized electrical power grid. The four vehicles will help test a microgrid at Wheeler Air Force Base in Hawaii. The…