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Far West News Briefs FLC 2010 Far West Regional Award Nominations Now Closed Nominations for the FLC 2010 Far West Regional Awards are now closed.
Click on the link below to download the 2010 Award Submission Form. Examples of previous year's FLC Far West awards can be viewed on our web site at: For additional information contact Rick Shindell at our FLC Far West Support Office (360) 582-9106 or rick@zyn.com 2010 FLC Far West Elections Results Election results for FLC officers were announced April 29, 2010 at the FLC National Meeting in Albuquerque, NM. Ida Shum from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was reelected as FLC Far West Regional Coordinator and Brian Suh from the Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific was elected as Deputy Coordinator. The two year terms commence October 1, 2010 and run through September 30, 2012. Ida Shum has been the Far West Regional Coordinator since 2008, having previously served as Deputy Cordinator. This is Brian Suh's first FLC elected office and he will succeed Steve Lieberman in the role as Deputy Coordinator. Lieberman, who had perviously served in the roles of Regional Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator chose not to run for reelection as deputy coordinator. Both Shum and Suh are running unopposed and their two year terms will commence October 1, 2010.
2010 FLC Far West / Mid-Continent Regional Conference The FLC Far West and Mid-Continent regions will hold their 2010 joint Fall meeting August 31 - September 2, 2010, at the Snow King Lodge, in Jackson Hole, WY. The focus will be on New Opportunities Enhancing T2 The meeting site was perfectly located on San Francisco Bay between the excitement of downtown San Francisco and technology corridor of Silicon Valley. Details will be posted soon on the joint regional web site at www.midcontinent.org/meeting Far West National Labs looking for Potential ARPA-E Research Partners The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has released it's first ever "Recovery Act" Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0000065 (CFDA Number: 81.135) with an opening date for acceptance of concept papers of May 12, 2009 and a closing date June 2, 2009 (8:00p edt). Many of the U.S. National Laboratories are interested in partnering with qualified companies and/or research institutions with expertise to address ARPA-E's FOA mission of to foster research and development (R&D) of transformational energy-related technologies. Transformational technologies are by definition technologies that disrupt the status quo. They are not merely better than current technologies, they are significantly better. Often, a technology is considered transformational when it so outperforms current approaches that it causes an industry to shift its technology base to the new technology. The Nation needs transformational energy-related technologies to overcome the threats posed by climate change and energy security, arising from its reliance on traditional uses of fossil fuels and the dominant use of oil in transportation. For more information on ARPA-E and their Funding Opportunity Announcement, please visit their web site at arpa-e.energy.gov/keydocs.html.
For information about National Laboratories in the FLC Far West Region please call the Far West Support Office at 360-582-9106 or send email to info@flc-fw.org
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
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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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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