• Laboratory Representative of the Year - Given to an FLC Laboratory Representative or Alternate for significant contributions to technology transfer, outreach to communities, and/or outreach and assistance to other laboratory representatives.
• Outstanding Technology Development - Given to a laboratory and staff for a promising technology development to: solve problems; satisfy markets and consumers; create patents and awards; or any area related to the above. The technology does not have to be transferred to be eligible for nomination.
• Outstanding Partnership - Can be any entity that has been germane in a successful partnership working with federal laboratories and technology transfer in the region. Examples can be universities, state/local economic development organizations, SBDCs, and partnership intermediaries.
• Outstanding Commercialization Success - A technology transfer success story that has resulted in the commercialization of a laboratory technology. This includes licensing agreements and other mechanisms that have help to bring a laboratory technology to market and help create jobs and stimulate the economy.

Click on the link below to download the 2008 Award Submission Form.

For additional information contact Rick Shindell at our FLC Far West Support Office (360) 582-9106 or rick@zyn.com

FLC Far West / Mid-Continent Regional Meeting
The FLC Mid-Continent and Far West regions are holding their joint 2008 Fall meeting September 9-11, at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Tech Center in Denver, CO. (see www.flc-mc.org/meeting)

This year our conference will focus on the hot topic of energy, including alternative, renewable, traditional and non-traditional forms.

Training sessions will include topics such as Talking to the Investment Community, how to get their attention, outreach to technology based economic development entities, and commercialization strategies.

This setting provides a unique environment geared for networking opportunities with industry, academia, state and local economic development organizations and our federal laboratories and agencies. Our training sessions will enrich your technology transfer knowledge base.

LLNL Detection instrument can sniff out airborne terrorist threats
Security and law enforcement officials may some day have a new ally – a universal detection system that can monitor the air for virtually all of the major threat agents that could be used by terrorists.

This type of system is under development by a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers, and has already been tested in laboratory and field experiments.

In their latest advance, the team has conceptually shown that they can almost simultaneously detect four potential threat materials – biological, chemical, explosives and radiological – along with illicit drugs.

Details are available on Livermore's web site at publicaffairs.llnl.gov/news/news_releases/2008/NR-08-06-05.html

Spring 2008 Far West Bulletin
The Spring 2008 edition of the Far West Bulletin has been issued and mailed to more than 500 Far West participants. An electronic PDF version of the newsletter is available by clicking on the icon to your right.

This issue conatins stories on:

• Lawrence Berkeley Expo Brings the Marketplace to the Lab
• NASA Ames and Girl Scouts Make Building Robots 'A Piece of Cake'
• New Leadership & Direction for Industrial Partnerships at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• JPL Technologies Chosen for Space Technology Hall of Fame
• Toxic Metals Find PNNL-Developed Sensor System Very 'Attractive'
• Mythbusters TV Show Enlists Federal Lab to Test Roach Resistance/Survivability
• Idaho National Laboratory-Led Team Achieves Nuclear Fuel Performance Milestone

Lieberman and Shum will make the change effective October 1, 2008.

Incoming FLC Far West Regional Coordinator Ms. Ida Shum Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 925-423-9724 shum3@llnl.gov
Incoming FLC Far West Deputy Coordinator Stephen Lieberman Navy SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego 619-553-2778 stephen.lieberman@navy.mil

CCAT CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) today announced plans to award funding and business support for small businesses, government laboratories and academic researchers seeking commercialization assistance for technologies that address priority military requirements. Award applications will be accepted starting at 8 a.m. (PST) January 28 through February 27, 2008 at 4 p.m. (PST).

CCAT is specifically seeking technologies to support (1) the smart unmanned ground robotics initiative; (2) technologies of interest to the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC); and (3) force health protection.

Complete information and application forms are available on the CCAT web site at www.ccatsocal.org/opportunities.html

Sponsored by the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Naval Research (ONR), CCAT seeks to fast track advanced military and security technologies into the hands of the U.S. military, security personnel, and first responders.

DoD Opens 2008 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Solicitation
The DoD has released their FY-2008.A STTR solicitation which will open to accept proposals on February 19, 2008 and close on March 19, 2008 at 6 a.m. EST. Prior to the opening date of February 19, 2008, proposers have the opportunity to contact topic authors by telephone or email to ask technical questions about specific solicitations topics.

This is the third year that the STTR program is operating under SBA's updated STTR Policy Directive (released 12/16/05) that allows partnering with a Federally Funded Research & Development Center (FFRDC) without obtaining an SBA waiver. The Far West region has several FFRDCs that are interested in partnering with small business entities on STTR projects.

A complete list of FFRDCs is available on the SBIR Gateway at www.zyn.com/sbir/articles/ffrdc.htm

The DoD's STTR solicitation includes topics from the Air Force (29), Army (42), Navy (34), DARPA (15), and OSD (3). The solicitation can be found on the DoD's web site at www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/solicitations/sttr08A

2007 FLC Far West / Mid-Continent Regional Conference
The FLC Far West and Mid-Continent regions held their joint 2007 Fall meeting September 10-12, at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina, in beautiful San Diego, CA. The event was well attended and drew excellent reviews from the attendees.

Complete details and presentations are available on the conference web site at www.flc-fw.org/meeting

FLC National Election Results
On May 18th the FLC announced the results of its National and Regional Elections. The new officers will not assume their roles until October 1, 2007, the start of the 2008 fiscal year. This was not an election year for the Far West Region so Steve Lieberman of Navy SSC San Diego remains Regional Coordinator and Ida Shum of INL, Deputy

Candidates for FLC Chair and Vice Chair ran unopposed. J. Scott Deiter will succeed Edward Linsenmeyer as chair and J. Susan Sprake will retain her position as FLC Vice Chair.

FLC Chair J. Scott Deiter Naval Surface Warfare Center - Indian Head Division 301-744-6111 john.deiter@navy.mil
FLC Vice Chair J. Susan Sprake Los Alamos National Laboratory 505-665-3613 sprake@lanl.gov

Other FLC National election results include Mary Archuleta of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland, Mojdeh Bahar of the NIH, and Thomas Stackhouse of the NCI as board members-at-large. Kathleen McDonald of the Los Alamos National Laboratory was elected as the FLC Recording Secretary.

In regional elections, Mike Crane of the Air Force Academy and Doug Tunison of the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center were elected Mid-Continent Regional and Deputy Coordinators. Theresa Baus of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center - Division Newport, and Lewis Meixler, of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, were elected Northeast Regional and Deputy Coordinators. Mark Reeves of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Eric Frickey of Savannah River National Laboratory, were elected Southeast Regional and Deputy Coordinators.

2006 FLC Far West / Mid-Continent Regional Conference Review
The FLC Far West Region partnered with the Mid-Continent Region for a joint 2006 Regional Conference. The conference was held August 29-31, 2006 at the Doubletree Hotel in Colorado Springs, CO. This years conference had a focus on homeland security and featured training sessions as well as opportunity forums for technology transfer professionals. A regional awards banquet was held on Thursday evening where both regions presented awards to federal laboratories, researchers and FLC participants covering a variety of technical categories.

The conference proceedings and award presentations are available here on our web site. View Colorado Springs Conference

Navy's SSC San Diego Signs License for QwikLite 200^TM Technology
The Office of Research and Technology Applications (Navy SSC San Diego Technology Transfer Office), directed by Dr. Stephen Lieberman, announced the signing of an exclusive license with Assure Bioassay Controls, Incorporated, a Carlsbad Company specializing in the measurement and reporting of toxicity for civilian and military requirements. The new products from the company will use technology from Dr. Dave Lapota, Environmental Sciences and Applied Systems Branch (Code 2375), who invented the first laboratory instrument and patented the technique. [More...]

Navy Presented with Energy Security Award
Navy recognized for ongoing energy leadership through biodiesel
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) today presented the United States Department of the Navy with the National Energy Security Award for Outstanding Energy Leadership through Biodiesel. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Environmental Programs, Donald R. Schregardus, accepted the award on behalf of the Navy during the NBB board meeting in Washington, DC. [More...]

PNNL Earns Award for 3 Environmental Technologies
Innovations remove mercury, help salmon and restore marine habitat

Three water-related research developments have earned the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory a Technology Merit Award in the 2005 Business Achievement Awards competition sponsored by the Environmental Business Journal.

The laboratory was recognized for an environmentally sensitive design for marine docks, a process for removing mercury from industrial wastes and a system that tracks the behavior and fate of migrating juvenile salmon. [More...]

Spotlight on Available Technologies - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab is seeking an industry partner(s) interested in licensing or collaboratively researching these technologies:

• Improved Procedure for Refolding Insoluble Proteins - Berkeley Lab researchers have developed an improved method for refolding insoluble proteins from inclusion bodies. This method is less time-consuming, does not require filtration or concentration, is compatible with a wide range of proteins, and is easily adaptable for high-throughput processing. The method is used in protein preparation for x-ray crystallography and NMR. [More...]

• Optimum Protein Solubility Screen - Sung-Hou Kim and colleagues at Berkeley Lab have developed a novel method that increases protein solubility. The method improves the success rate of both solubility and crystallization, critical steps in x-ray crystallography and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). [More...]

Berkeley Lab is a DOE national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. Their mission includes working with industry to commercialize Lab inventions. For information on other cutting edge biotechnology and medical technologies from Berkeley Lab, please visit their Technology Transfer web site at www.lbl.gov/tt

PNNL on Fast Track for Hydrogen Fuel Reformer
How do you “gas up” a hydrogen car? - Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing a system to rapidly produce hydrogen from gasoline in your car. “This brings fuel cell-powered cars one step closer to the mass market,” said Larry Pederson, project leader at PNNL. [ More... ]

Navy License Enhances Homeland Port Security and Protects Queen Mary 2
NFESC licenses and helps commercialize its Port Security System - The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) at Port Hueneme, CA has licensed its Port Security Barrier technology to Harbor Offshore, Inc. (HOI), a Ventura CA based marine contractor. Less than two weeks after signing the licensing agreement, HOI had their first customer, Port Everglades, FL. [ More... ]

Navy CRADA Leads to Mini Refinery
From Used Cooking Oil to Biodiesel Fuel - More than 100 people attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Navy's first mini refinery that converts used restaurant oil into biodiesel fuel. "If successful, mini-refineries could begin popping up on Navy bases across the country to help the military meet tougher smog rules," said Kurt Buehler, project engineer at the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) in Port Hueneme, CA. Buehler presided over the October 30, 2003 dedication of the biodiesel refinery - the first ever to be located at a U.S. military installation. [ More... ]

NFESC Awards License for NoFoam Technology
The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center has licensed their NoFoam technology to JR Thomas International Inc., of Ventura California. [ More... ]