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  • DOE Seeks Proposals for Funding Opportunity on Energy Tech Transfer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Seeks Proposals for Funding Opportunity on Energy Tech Transfer

    The Energy Department has issued the first request for proposals on the office of technology transition’s Technology Commercialization Fund, which seeks to support the transfer of energy-related technologies to the commercial market. DOE said Friday the $20 million funding opportunity aims to facilitate the commercialization of technologies developed as part of federally funded research projects at the 17 […] More

  • NIST Issues Funding Opportunity for Small Business Tech R&D Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Issues Funding Opportunity for Small Business Tech R&D Projects

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to award up to $100,000 in competitive grants under the agency’s Small Business Innovation Research initiative for research and development work on 19 technologies. The first phase of the SBIR federal funding opportunity is meant to ascertain the technical feasibility of R&D projects, NIST said Wednesday. Research areas covered […] More

  • NIST: FY 2013 Federal Tech Transfer Efforts Generated $185M in Active Licenses-Related Income - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST: FY 2013 Federal Tech Transfer Efforts Generated $185M in Active Licenses-Related Income

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a new report on federal laboratories“™ technology transfer efforts in fiscal year 2013 as part of the Obama administration“™s Lab-to-Market Cross-Agency Priority Goal. NIST said Tuesday 5,492 active income bearing licenses resulted in approximately $185 million income in fiscal 2013. Other findings of the Federal Laboratory Technology […] More

  • Ernst & Young to Offer LANL's Behavioral Cyber Tools in Commercial Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ernst & Young to Offer LANL’s Behavioral Cyber Tools in Commercial Market

    Ernst & Young and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have entered into a strategic alliance to bring the lab’s behavioral cybersecurity tools to the commercial marketplace amid a growing sophistication of attacks. “Defensive cybersecurity is an area that requires strong public-private partnerships to shift the balance,” Duncan McBranch, chief technology officer at LANL, said Tuesday. EY will exclusively offer technologies […] More

  • Energy Dept Seeks Partners for Sandia Labs Transfer of Active Authentication Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Energy Dept Seeks Partners for Sandia Labs Transfer of Active Authentication Tech

    The Energy Department has issued a solicitation for industry partners to help facilitate the market readiness and commercialization of Sandia National Laboratories’ active authentication technologies. DOE said in a special notice posted June 26 on FedBizOpps that Sandia has worked to develop a Quasi-Physically Unclonable Digital ID that uses data scrambling to authenticate devices and counter digital […] More

  • Willie May: NIST Report on 2012 Federal Tech Transfer to Support Future Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Willie May: NIST Report on 2012 Federal Tech Transfer to Support Future Efforts

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a report on the government’s technology transfer activities in fiscal 2012 in support of the Lab-to-Market Cross-Agency Priority Goal under the President’s Management Agenda in 2014. NIST said Tuesday the report provides a baseline for measuring the government’s performance toward fulfilling the technology transfer CAP goal. “We will use future editions of this […] More

  • MITRE, Allied Minds Forge Tech Transfer Alliance; Mark Maybury, Barry Costa Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE, Allied Minds Forge Tech Transfer Alliance; Mark Maybury, Barry Costa Comment

    The MITRE Corp. and Allied Minds Inc. have forged a commercial technology transfer partnership with the goal of introducing MITRE“™s cyber and mobile security systems to the market and forming a new business. Allied Minds“™ federal innovations subsidiary will work to evaluate MITRE’s technologies for commercial applications and licensing under the agreement, Allied Minds said […] More

  • Barry Costa Named MITRE Tech Transfer Head; Steve Huffman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Barry Costa Named MITRE Tech Transfer Head; Steve Huffman Comments

    Barry Costa, head of MITRE Corp.’s social radar strategy, has been appointed director of the nonprofit organization’s technology transfer office, which develops new technologies that commercial companies provide to government clients. The TTO partners with engineers, scientists and MITRE“™s research program as it aims to help researchers, academic institutions and federal laboratories collaborate on new […] More

  • Regional tech leaders plant seeds for start-up growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Regional tech leaders plant seeds for start-up growth

    At times, entrepreneurs seeking funding through the traditional venture capital process can start to feel like Michael J. Fox’s character in “Secret of My Success.” As a newly-minted college graduate who leaps from small town, USA to the Big Apple, Fox’s character shuttles from one interview to another, only to hear the same refrain: “We […] More

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