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Commerce's NIST Announces 16 New ATP Awards

Friday, July 18, 2003

New blade technology that could make energy generation by wind turbines more efficient and virus-resistant tissues for skin grafts are just two novel technologies to be developed by the private sector with support from 16 Advanced Technology Program (ATP) awards made last week.

The recipients could be among the final new ATP awards made as the Bush Administration's FY 2004 budget request has recommended terminating the program.

Administered by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the ATP awards figure to help birth numerous technologies, including a method for operating a car's devices through conversational speech and an automated Web-searching and data organizing software system. The new awards represent a total of up to $35.46 million in ATP funding and an industry share of up to $22.28 million, if all projects are carried through to completion.

The 13 individual companies with projects selected for funding are:

  • AdvanTek International LLC (Boothwyn, Pa.)
  • Bit 9 (Somerville, Mass.)
  • Chromatin Inc. (Chicago)
  • HandyLab Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
  • Imaging Systems Technology (Toledo, Ohio)
  • InRAD L.L.C. (Knoxville, Tenn.)
  • PowerSicel Inc. (Boulder, Colo.)
  • Revivicor Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.)
  • Rosetta-Wireless Corp. (West Chicago, Ill.)
  • Stratatech Corp. (Madison, Wisc.)
  • Supertron Technologies Inc. (Newark, N.J.)
  • TIAX LLC (Cambridge, Mass.)
  • Virent Energy Systems LLC (Madison, Wisc.)

The three joint venture partnerships (the lead partner listed first) with projects selected for funding include:

  • Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Mich.) in partnership with American Technology Inc. (Shelton, Conn.), Edison Welding Institute (Columbus, Ohio) and Sonobond Ultrasonics Inc. (West Chester, Pa.);
  • Motorola Inc., Motorola Labs (Tempe, Ariz.) in partnership with Englehard Corp. (Iselin, N.J.); and,
  • Robert Bosch Corp. Research and Technology Center (Palo Alto, Calif.) in partnership with SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.), Stanford University (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Volkswagen of America Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

A listing of the new ATP award-winners and their projects is available at: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/atpaward0703.htm