Tag: contract
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Univ. Developing Prototype Air Passenger Liquid Scanner
A University of California at Davis professor is building a magnetic resonance device that can scan unopened bottles carried on airplanes by passengers. Matthew Augustine, a member of the UC Davis chemistry faculty, originally developed the technology to check the quality of wine. Augustine began experimenting with the technology some years ago to check sealed…
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World Bank Contract Awarded for Off-Grid LED Tests
The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York received a World Bank contract to perform laboratory testing of LED-based, off-grid lighting products. The LED-based lights are developed for Lighting Africa, a joint initiative between the World Bank and International Finance Corporation. Over the next 18 months, the LRC will lab…
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Partnership To Advance Military Field Energy Sources
A team from Maxwell Technologies Inc. in San Diego, California, University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and the U.S. Navy will develop a lighter, longer-lasting, energy source for field radios and other portable electronic equipment carried by military personnel. Maxwell Technologies says today that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded the company a $1.7 million…
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Contracts Awarded for Advanced Battery Technologies
Five companies received technology development and assessment contracts today from the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), a research collaboration of automakers Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors Company. The awards, totaling $5.43 million, are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and include a 50 percent cost-share from each of 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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BARDA Awards Contract for Smallpox Antiviral Drug
SIGA Technologies Inc. in New York, New York said today it received notice that the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), intends to award a contract for the company’s smallpox antiviral for the strategic national stockpile. SIGA says a protest from another company…
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Three Companies Win NIH Biodefense Research Contracts
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded three new contracts to fund research on vaccines and vaccine delivery against dengue fever and anthrax that could be used in a terror attack. Total funding for the three contracts could reach $68 million, depending on the successful…
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Security Systems Developer Lands IED Detection Contract
American Science and Engineering Inc. in Billerica, Massachusetts (AS&E) says it received a multimillion dollar contract for its “Z Backscatter” system from a U.S. government agency for remote improvised explosive (IED) device detection and defeat. The company did not name the agency or the amount of the contract. The company says the system will use…
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Flywheel Developer Awarded ARPA-E Contract
Beacon Power Corporation, a developer of energy storage systems and services in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to develop components of a more advanced flywheel energy storage system over a two-year period. Beacon Power says the contract is valued at $2.8 million.…
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Contracts Awarded for Countermeasure Upgrades
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) announced the first contract awards to upgrade the infrastructure for producing medical countermeasures that protect against natural and man-made biological threats. The eight contracts are expected to reduce the time and cost of development, testing, and production of medical countermeasures…