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Far West News Briefs 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.
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Elections Set for Far West Regional & Deputy Coordinators The ticket has been set for the election of new Far West regional officers. Current regional coordinator Dr. Stephen Lieberman has decided not to run for re-election and has nominated the region's deputy coordinator Ms. Ida Shum of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the post. In turn, Ms. Shum nominated Lieberman for deputy coordinator. Nominations closed on March 6, 2008 and no other nominations were received. The election will be held by both electronic (absentee) ballot for voting members not attending the national meeting in Portland, Oregon, May 5-8, 2008, and by on site ballot for voting members present at the meeting. Election results will be announced May 8, 2008, at the national meeting. Both Shum and Lieberman are running unopposed and will swap roles effective October 1, 2008.
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.
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 conference proceedings and award presentations are available here on our web site. View Colorado Springs Conference
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.
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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
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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. [
Navy recognized for ongoing energy leadership through biodiesel
Innovations remove mercury, help salmon and restore marine habitat
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.
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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.
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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.
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