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FLC 2010 Far West Regional Award Nominations Now Closed
Nominations for the FLC 2010 Far West Regional Awards are now closed.
  • 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 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.
FLC Far West Regional Coordinator
Ms. Ida Shum
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
925-423-9724
shum3@llnl.gov
Nomination Statement
Ida Shum
FLC Far West Deputy Coordinator (elect)
Brian Suh
Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific
619-553-5118
brian.suh@navy.mil
Nomination Statement
Brian Suh


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



LLNL Detection instrument can sniff out airborne terrorist threats
LLNL 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

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
fuel processorHow 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
Queen Mary 2NFESC 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
Ribbon CuttingFrom 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... ]

        
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