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This year's program is in response to the increasing price of oil, and our Nation’s growing need for viable options of alternative energy. The meeting will explore all matters of alternative and renewable energies as well as conventional and emerging fuels including the latest programs and the newest technologies. The program has also been expanded to include what federal labs are doing to foster careers in science, technology and engineering and how these programs can be implemented ensuring America’s future as a leader in technology development.

In addition to our training sessions and presentations, Mid-Continent Regional Coordinator Mike Crane of the U.S Air Force Academy is working to provide a rich networking environment for laboratories interested in finding opportunities from private industry, academia, angel & venture capital investors as well as state & local government organizations seeking federal technologies or collaborations. A special late afternoon session followed by a reception will be hosted on Wednesday, September 10th for you to meet and greet and/or have one-on-one opportunities to network with these attendees.

Details are available on our conference web site at www.flc-mc.org/meeting

Los Alamos National Laboratory technologies capture prestigious R&D 100 awards
Cutting-edge innovations garnered Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers two of R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Awards. The awards, which will be presented October 16 in Chicago, recognize the top 100 industrial innovations worldwide in 2008. Winning Laboratory projects are the 3-D Tracking Microscope and Laser-Weave technology.

Details are available on LANL's web site at www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/13804

Sandia licenses its improved flash-bang technology
New flash-bang safer for law enforcement, military - Sandia National Laboratories recently licensed its safer fuel air diversionary device technology to Defense Technology Corporation of America, located in Casper, Wyo.

Diversionary devices — also called stun grenades or flash-bangs — are a less-than-lethal device used in a wide variety of law enforcement and military operations. Like a grenade, the device is activated by pulling a pin. When thrown, the flash-bang creates a loud sound and bright flash of light to temporarily distract or disorient an adversary.

Flash-bangs are used in law enforcement and military operations such as hostage rescue, room-clearing, crowd control and other specialized operations. Military or law enforcement personnel will typically break down a door or smash a window of a building and toss in the diversionary device during a forced entry.

Details are available on Sandia's web site at www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2008/flashbang.html

STEM Update: NASA Education Program Receives Award From Houston Rodeo
NASA’s Texas Aerospace Scholars (TAS) is wrapping up a summer spent on sending more than 300 Texas high school juniors on a simulated journey to Mars. The effort was made possible by a record $100,000 contribution from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

In March, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo presented TAS with an initial $50,000 check and challenged the program to match the funds. The program did. Recently, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo gave TAS the additional $50,000, enabling 50 more Texas high school students to attend TAS’ yearlong high school program, High School Aerospace Scholars (HAS).

Details are available on NASA Johnson's web site at www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/education/nasa_education_program.html

2007 FLC Mid-Continent / Far West Regional Conference Recap
The FLC Mid-Continent and Far West regions held their joint 2007 Fall meeting September 10-12, at the newly restored and expanded Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina, in beautiful San Diego, CA. The setting provided a unique environment geared for networking opportunities, and our conference and training sessions.

Presentations from the meeting are available at www.flc-fw.org/meeting

Los Alamos National Laboratory Signs CRADA and License Agreement with Carbon Designs, Inc.
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Carbon Designs, Inc. (CDI), signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to collaborate on the development of ultra-strong fibers made of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). CDI will initially invest $2 million in this joint effort to develop fibers expected to be many times stronger than any current engineering materials. The carbon nanotube is a scientific development stemming from the discovery of soccer-ball shaped carbon molecules in 1985 by the chemistry department at Rice University. These microscopic molecules are usually a few nanometers in diameter, or billionths of a meter; comparatively, a virus is 100 nanometers in size. The current CRADA is one of the largest sponsored research agreements ever signed by the Laboratory. [More...]