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New ATP Awards Announced in 2003
(May 2003, July 2003 and September 2003)

FY 2003 Funding as of September 10, 2003 (Batch 3 of ATP FY2002 Competition)

Development of a Four-Channel Miniature Optical Filter Chip
4Wave Inc. (Sterling, VA)

Prototype a new semiconductor fabrication technology, Biased Target Ion Beam Deposition (BTIBD), and prove its effectiveness by designing and developing a novel four channel optical communications "multi-filter chip" that may reduce the cost of current four channel filter solutions by 80 percent.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 3/31/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,767,000.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,969,725.00

Contact: Trey Middleton, 703-787-9283 ext. 100, tmiddleton@4waveinc.com


Active Alert for Video Monitoring
ActivEye, Inc. (Pleasantville, NY)

Develop an automated security surveillance system that combines closed circuit video cameras, radio-frequency identification technology, and computer modeling and analysis of human behaviors, with the aim of achieving rapid, reliable detection of suspicious events warranting the attention of security personnel.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,804,853.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,868,275.00

Contact: Carolyn C. Ramsey, 914-882-8087, carolyn.ramsey@activeye.com


Spectrally-Multiplexed Holographic Video
Actuality Systems, Inc. (Burlington, MA)

Advance holographic visualization technology from still images to full-motion full color images suitable for use in scientific visualization, medical evaluation, and entertainment by overcoming challenges related to image resolution, data processing, and consumer-level pricing.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,085,278.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,666,468.00

Contact: Christina Guilbert, 781-759-0015, christina@amatecommunications.com


Two Sigma Math Tutor
Acuitus, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)

Develop an intelligent tutoring system that models expert tutor behavior as well as what the tutor is observing about the student to create a computer-based effective teacher's aid that complements teacher-led classroom instruction.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,273,905.21
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Maria Machado, 650-833-5710, publicrelations@acuitus.com


Next-Generation Optical Network Switch
Agiltron Inc. (Woburn, MA)

Develop a new type of optical switch, based on a revolutionary optical MEMS platform, that is more efficient, more reliable, and faster, helping to revitalize the broadband telecommunications industry.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2007
  • Total project (est.): $7,000,666.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $3,500,000.00

Contact: Dr. Jack Salerno, 978-694-1006 ext. 11, jsalerno@agiltron.com


Developing Reversible Sterilization in Fish to Eliminate Genetic and Environmental Risk
Aqua Bounty Farms, Inc. (Waltham , MA)

Develop technology to produce sterile transgenic fish that can be made fertile as needed for reproduction.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $3,554,513.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,680,000.00

Contact: Joseph McGonigle, 781-899-7755, jbmcgonigle@earthlink.net


Active Magnetic Regenerator Refrigerator
Astronautics Corporation of America (Milwaukee, WI)

Design, build, and test a magnetic refrigerator that is energy efficient, cost effective, and environmentally safe.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 3/31/2006
  • Total project (est.): $4,254,286.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,660,170.00

Contact: Holly Russek, 414-449-4123, h.russek@astronautics.com


New Routes to Ultra-Low-Cost Solar-Grade Silicon for Renewable Energy Generation
AstroPower, Inc. (Newark, DE)

Develop industrial refining processes to produce low-cost, high-purity silicon feedstock in virtually unlimited commercial quantities for the solar cell industry.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $11,301,473.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $5,515,975.00

Contact: Colleen Gourley, 302-366-0400 ext. 2025, cgourley@astropower.com


Ultraminiature Transformer and Inductor Design and Manufacture
BH Electronics, Inc. (Burnsville, MN)

Develop technology for low-cost mass-manufacture of high-frequency electronic transformers and inductors, enabling U.S. production of these commodity components, most of which are now hand manufactured and imported.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 4/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $786,388.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $695,458.00

Contact: Richard H. Jackson, 952-894-9590, rjackson@bhelectronics.com


Integration of 3-D Photography for Photorealistic Modeling in Construction and Disaster Recovery
BRAINSTORM Technology LLC (New York, NY)

Develop software that creates accurate, realistic, three-dimensional models of buildings and other large-scale environments for applications in construction, disaster recovery, architecture, urban planning, preservation, and entertainment.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,120,000.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Ann Clements, 212-807-0999, clements@brainstormllc.com


Building a Virtual Auto Body: The Digital Body Development System
Center for Automotive Research (CAR) (Ann Arbor, MI)

Develop a decision support software system that will integrate the virtual building of an automobile body structure with functional build decision making software to help designers, engineers, and vehicle launch teams solve problems and predict how solutions will affect quality, cost, and schedule.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2007
  • Total project (est.): $10,827,208.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $5,286,000.00

Contact: Heather Grisham, 734-929-0472, hgrisham@cargroup.org


Debugging Protein Glycosylation for Biotherapeutics
Chesapeake PERL, Inc. (College Park, MD)

Genetically transform caterpillars to produce therapeutic protein drugs 100 times faster than any current technology, decreasing drug development costs and increasing affordable drug production capacity.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,620,000.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Ms. Terry Chase, 301-405-0207, terrychase@c-perl.com


Development of Chiral Grating Technology for Advanced Fiber Laser
Chiral Photonics, Inc. (Clifton, NJ)

Develop and prototype a new type of low-cost laser--one that operates inside the glass fiber used for optical communications--potentially leading to dramatic telecommunications system cost reductions.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project(est.): $2,847,041.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Dan Neugroschl, 973-594-8888 ext. 102, DanN@ChiralPhotonics.com


SOVA: Stream-of-Variation Analysis System for Multistage Assembly Processes
Dimensional Control Systems, Inc. (Troy, MI)

Develop a widely applicable computer simulation system for modeling, analyzing, predicting, and optimizing the performance of multistage manufacturing processes requiring accurate parts alignment to improve production and product quality.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,837,181.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,987,927.00

Contact: Ramesh Kumar, 248-269-9777 ext. 214, kumarr@3dcs.com


HPLC-On-A-Chip For High Throughput Chemical Analysis
Eksigent Technologies, LLC (Livermore, CA)

Develop a miniaturized, high-performance liquid chromatography system on a chip that will accelerate the screening of drug candidates before clinical trials and greatly reduce the costs of drug discovery and development.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $3,197,949.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Don W. Arnold, 925-960-8869 ext. 302, dwarnold@eksigent.com


Phase Change Optical Routers
Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (Rochester Hills, MI)

Develop advanced Ovonic TM phase change materials and use them to create a fast optical switch for telecommunications--offering submicrosecond switching speeds--so fast that optical packet switching could become viable, eliminating the very costly, repetitive, and slow conversion of fiber optic light signals to and from electronic signals.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $3,257,157.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,972,246.00

Contact: Ghazaleh Koefod, 248-293-0440, gkoefod@ovonic.com


High Throughput, Low Cost SNP Genotyping for Diagnostics and Genome Scanning
Gene Check, Inc. (Fort Collins, CO)

Develop a method for accurate simultaneous detection of up to 100,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms, or point mutations, in patient DNA, enabling rapid, low-cost genotyping, for disease diagnosis, susceptibility testing, and personalized medicine.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project(est.): $1,915,468.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,762,178.00

Contact: Dr. Robert E. Wagner, 970-472-9951, rwagner@genecheck.com


Roll-to-Roll Processing to Enable the Organic-Electronics Revolution
General Electric Company (Niskayuna, NY)

Revolutionize the electronics industry by developing low-cost roll-to-roll printing technologies, not for newspapers, but for roll-to-roll printing of large area electronic devices, potentially enabling flexible displays, ubiquitous embedded sensors, and high-efficiency lighting products.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2007
  • Total project (est.): $13,061,008.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $6,426,607.00

Contact: James Healy, 518-387-6284, healyj@research.ge.com


Novel Technology for the Discovery of D-Peptide Therapeutics for Cytokine-Mediated Diseases
Gryphon Therapeutics (South San Francisco, CA)

Develop an approach for discovering D-peptide drugs, a new class of therapeutics likely to be pharmacologically superior to monoclonal antibody drugs and less immunogenic.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $3,247,869.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Alexander R. Lussow, 650-360-1434, alussow@gryphonrx.com


Virtual Reality Based Surgical Simulation and Training System
Haptic Technologies, Inc. (West Newton, MA)

Develop a virtual reality surgical simulation system for the training of surgeons through conveyance of realistic touch and force sensations back to the student coupled with realistic views, dynamically updated in real-time, of tissue and organs and their deformation when cut or probed with virtual surgical tools.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,214,600.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,994,600.00

Contact: Dr. Mandayam Srinivasan, 617-332-0539, haptictechnologies@yahoo.com


THE NEXT GENERATION BIOMETRIC--Infrared Identification: Accurate, Fast, Scalable, and Secure
Infrared Identification, Inc. (Lorton, VA)

Develop a technology for biometric recognition of faces that uses thermal infrared imaging to map unique vascular patterns, operates in real time, identifies anyone whose infrared or visual image is recorded in its database, and is invulnerable to forgery, disguise, and varying environmental conditions.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,236,006.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,995,162.00

Contact: Larry Lotspeich, 703-838-8420, llotspeich@emsiusa.com


Technologies for Advanced Holographic Data Storage
InPhase Technologies, Inc. (Longmont, CO)

Create a prototype optical data storage device that proves the viability of using holographic 3D techniques--enabling parallel reading and writing of data with a 10 times faster rate than standard technologies--potentially helping the United States reclaim leadership in optical data storage.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $5,716,501.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,769,159.00

Contact: Liz Murphy, 720-494-7465, lizmurphy@inphase-tech.com


High Density, Scalable, Mass-Manufacturable Semiconductor Fuel Cell
Integrated Fuel Cell Technologies, Inc. (Bedford, MA)

Pursue semiconductor fabrication methods for high volume manufacture of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell cores, leading to a family of low-cost fuel cell systems ranging from 1 Watt to over 10kW, potentially giving the United States a dramatic lead in fuel cell production and replacing millions of imported batteries.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $3,814,618.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,920,000.00

Contact: Jim Daniell, 781-271-1343, jimdaniell@IFCTech.com


Multi-Drug, Portable Infusion System for the Treatment of Cancer and AIDS
Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (Ypsilanti, MI)

Develop a highly portable multidrug infusion system that integrates the technology of microelectromechanical systems with a passively pressurized drug reservoir, thereby dramatically improving control of drug delivery, while operating on low power.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,673,792.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,973,972.00

Contact: Kim Ray, 734-547-9896 ext. 100, kkbarnett@mems-issys.com


A Distributed Information Architecture for Clinical Practice and Medical Research
Medaxis Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)

Develop a software architecture for physicians and researchers that automatically extracts patient data from electronic medical records - regardless of location, database, or computer code - generates a list of patient problems, and displays information in ways that support diagnostic and therapeutic decisionmaking.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 3/31/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,136,092.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,974,794.00

Contact: Sia Yaghmai, 310-443-0606 ext. 222, sia@medaxis.net


Spintronics-Based High-Resolution, Non-Invasive, and Ultrafast Metrology for the Semiconductor Industry
Micro Magnetics, Inc. (Fall River, MA)

Develop a nanoscale magnetic tunnel junction current-sensing system for integrated circuit inspection that will help maintain the U.S. lead in semiconductors by providing vastly improved metrology for in-process inspection.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $3,406,744.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Gurpreet Singh, 508-910-9842, admin@micromagnetics.com


Porous Silicon Electrode All Liquid Fuel Cells
Neah Power Systems, Inc. (Bothell, WA)

Develop a miniature direct methanol fuel cell using novel porous silicon electrodes and microfluidics for handling fuel and oxidant, potentially replacing environmentally challenging rechargable batteries while offering longer run times, higher power output, and instantaneous recharging for portable electronic devices.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $6,566,000.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Gregg Makuch, 425-482-0654 ext. 104, gmakuch@neahpower.com


Preemptive Brain Stimulation Technology For Treating Epilepsy
NeuroPace, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA)

Develop preemptive stimulation technology for use in an implantable neurostimulator that normalizes brain activity and reduces the likelihood and severity of epileptic seizures.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $3,033,622.78
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Rebecca Kuhn, 650-237-2739, rkuhn@neuropace.com


Microwave Imaging Technology for Condition Assessment of FRP Composites
Newport Sensors, Inc. (Irvine, CA)

Develop a portable device that uses microwave imaging technology to assess the condition of reinforced-concrete structures, such as bridge columns, that have been strengthened or repaired with fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,300,126.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,991,512.00

Contact: Dr. Maria Q. Feng, 949-378-8969, mfeng@newportsensors.com


New Polymer Dielectrics for High Energy Density Film Capacitors
Ohio Aerospace Institute (Brookpark, OH)

Develop thin-film, plastic dielectric materials that will enhance current capacitor performance 10-fold, leading to development of smaller, lighter, more portable electrical equipment including power converters for fuel cells and electric vehicles.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $5,242,242.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,547,730.00

Contact: Laurie Beringer, 440-962-3114, LaurieBeringer@oai.org


Building for Radical Interoperation
Palo Alto Research Center (Palo Alto, CA)

Develop a novel interconnection technology that permits a wide variety of digital devices and services to interoperate without pre-installing driver software.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 3/31/2006
  • Total project (est.): $4,144,240.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,657,696.00

Contact: Tracy Kugelman, 650-812-4085, media-relations@parc.com


Low Cost Fuel Cell System Technologies Development
Plug Power Inc. (Latham, NY)

Develop four technologies - a power-control system that uses digital signal processing, a carbon nanotube hybrid electrode for superior stack performance, hydrogen pumping for coping with sporadic demands for high power, and electroimpedance spectroscopy for humidity management - that reduce the cost of fuel-cell-produced energy to levels competitive with power grids, thus stimulating much wider use of fuel cells.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $3,853,543.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,879,586.00

Contact: Cynthia Mahoney White, 518-782-7700 ext. 1973,


Novel Fabrication Process for Gas Diffusion Layers Needed in Fuel Cells
PolyFuel, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)

Develop a low-cost, high-speed process for fabricating gas diffusion layers for use in fuel cells improving their performance and spurring wider use.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,789,165.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Christian DeNike, 408-307-1236, christian@prequent.com


Automated Whole Part Inspection for Manufacturing Process Control
Raindrop Geomagic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC)

Develop an automated computer-aided inspection system that uses noncontact three-dimensional laser scanning and software to measure manufactured parts and that compares the results with corresponding specifications in computer-aided design data.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $3,234,120.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Ping Fu, 919-474-0124, pfu@geomagic.com


Mechanical Patterning of Nanostructured Foils for Reactive Joining: Enhancing Stability with Novel Processing and Nanoengineering
Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc. (Hunt Valley, MD)

Develop a new class of reactive foils that can rapidly join thermally sensitive or dissimilar materials, that are stable enough to allow patterning by mechanical punching or stamping, and that promise substantial gains in productivity for U.S. manufacturers.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,767,884.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,900,000.00

Contact: Michael Choi, 410-771-9801, ext. 104, mchoi@rntfoil.com


Video-Enhanced Residential ADSL Broadband Technology
Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, NJ)

Develop broadband technology that allows video services comparable in quality to cable and satellite television to be delivered in real time over standard ADSL infrastructure.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $8,043,472.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $4,001,756.00

Contact: Thomas Lento, 609-734-3178, tlento@sarnoff.com


A Service-oriented Industrial Automation Middleware for Adaptable, Reconfigurable Control Systems
Starthis, Inc. (Rosemont, IL)

Develop industrial middleware that allows control engineers to design new control systems or adapt and reconfigure existing systems rapidly and intuitively, enabling agile manufacturing operations that can respond effectively to changing markets and competition.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,328,525.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Dr. David L. Naylor, 847-375-9560, naylor@starthis.com


New Software Tool for Improving Drug Discovery and Development
Targacept Inc. (Winston Salem, NC)

Develop new simulation software that uses quantum mechanics to evaluate molecular forces and electronic structures in organic and biological systems to help improve the development of drugs by accurately predicting biological and toxicological effects.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $1,989,408.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,871,370.00

Contact: Dr. William Caldwell, 336-480-2117, bill.caldwell@targarcept.com


Artificial Intelligence to Protect the US Critical Infrastructure: A Heuristic Firewall Research Project
TechGuard Security, LLC (Chesterfield, MO)

Develop a revolutionary computer network firewall that augments conventional rule-based screening with behavior-based screening using sets of artificial neural networks to recognize malicious traffic on first attack.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $1,669,730.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,451,940.00

Contact: Suzanne Magee Joyce, 314-374-1676, suzanne.joyce@techguardsecurity.com


Intelligent Optimization and Control of Grinding Processes
TechSolve, Inc. (Cincinnati, OH)

Develop an intelligent system that uses techniques of soft computing and artificial intelligence to learn, control, monitor, and optimize a variety of complex precision-grinding processes without resorting to trial and error.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $6,013,979.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,997,621.00

Contact: Gary N. Conley, 513-948-2100, conley@techsolve.org


Disaster-Proof Telecommunications Technology
Telecontinuity, Inc. (Silver Spring, MD)

Develop a system to guarantee telephone call delivery and dial tone in order to maintain telecommunications continuity during and following terror attack, natural disaster, equipment failure, or human error by combining the capabilities of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and the Internet.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $1,961,510.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,747,400.00

Contact: Roy Pinchot, 301-681-9108, rpinchot@telecontinuity.com


PowerFlow: Next-Generation Intellectual Property Technology for System-on-a-Chip Designs
The Athena Group, Inc. (Gainesville, FL)

Develop a system-on-a-chip architecture that blends the flexibility of fully programmable microprocessors with the high performance of function-specific processors, radically lowering design costs and speeding development of devices for embedded applications.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,821,945.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,999,859.00

Contact: Pat Rugg, 352-371-2567 ext. 110, prugg@athena-group.com


Development of Solid State Long Wave Infra-Red (LWIR) Laser
The Maxima Corporation (San Diego, CA)

Develop a novel solid-state laser technology that can operate at the longer wavelengths, thus much less affected by fog or rain fade, to enable the establishment of reliable free-space optical communications for low-cost, high-speed, last-mile interconnection.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $3,544,637.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

Contact: Saul Umbrasas, 858-643-1700 ext. 117, sumbrasas@maximacorporation.com


Novel X-ray Security Systems: Fast, Accurate And Affordable
Varian Medical Systems (Mountain View, CA)

Develop large-area digital X-ray inspection systems with heretofore-unavailable accuracy for near error-free screening of cargo and sealed container freight at airports, seaports, and other points of entry.

  • Project Duration: 10/1/2003 - 9/30/2007
  • Total project (est.): $11,759,104.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $5,873,013.00

Contact: Spencer Sias, 650-424-5782, spencer.sias@varian.com


FY 2003 Funding as of July 1, 2003 (Batch 2 of ATP FY2002 Competition)

Instantaneous Power Control Technology
AdvanTek International, LLC (Boothwyn, PA)

Develop a rotor technology that allows blades to be 30 percent longer without increasing structural and fatigue loads, improves wind turbine output by 25 percent and makes wind farms cost effective in moderate-wind regions.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 4/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $4,206,938
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000

Contact: Stephen R. Kopf, (484) 490-1104, skopf@advan-tek.com


Computer Immune System
Bit 9, Inc. (Somerville, MA)

Develop a system that will proactively protect computers and networks from attack, even if the virus or attack is unknown, as opposed to current protection systems that can react only to know threats.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,529,315
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000

Contact: Dr. Todd Brennan, (617) 491-1768, info@bit9inc.com


Multi-Gene and Mini-Chromosomes for Gene Delivery
Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, IL)

Develop mini-chromosome technology for simultaneous introduction of multiple genes into plants to produce improved crops for agricultural, industrial and pharmaceutical products.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $3,795,321
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,967,632

Contact: Dr. Helge Zieler, (312) 455-1853, zieler@chromatininc.com


Portable DNA Analysis Using Real-Time PCR
HandyLab, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI)

Develop a highly sensitive, low-cost, and portable DNA analysis device using electrochemical detection of real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) instead of a fluorescence detection scheme.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,500,000
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000

Contact: John Althaus, (734) 663-4719, X232, jalthaus@handylab.com


Low Cost Flexible Plasma Displays
Imaging Systems Technology (Toledo, OH)

Develop a novel plasma display panel structure that uses hollow glass microspheres containing ultrapure ionizable gas as the addressable pixel elements, uses a flexible substrate and substantially lowers the cost of displays.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,861,868
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,999,192

Contact: Ms. Carol Wedding, (419) 536-5741, cwedding@teamist.com


Automated Knowledge Discovery System (AKDS)
InRAD, LLC (Knoxville, TN)

Develop an automated software system to search for and organize content from Internet sites and databases that precisely matches a user's information requirements, thereby expediting research and development and reducing research costs.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,372,029
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,996,181

Contact: Richard E. Neal, (865) 927-4135, imti1@msn.com


Transistors for Broadband Wireless Communications
PowerSicel, Inc. (Boulder, CO)

Develop new high-performance power transistors operating at 10 times the power density and five times the efficiency of conventional power transistors, enabling true broadband ultralinear power amplifiers.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,989,783
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,989,783

Contact: John Torvik, (303) 442-4250, jtorvik@powersicel.com


Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus Transmission
Revivicor, Inc. (Blacksburg, VA)

Develop a technology for producing safer xenograft tissues by developing donor pigs that are incapable of replicating or propagating porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) or its derivatives.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,657,192
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,968,290

Contact: Dr. David Ayares, (540) 961-5559, dayares@Revivicor.com


WWAN/WLAN Replication of Enterprise Data
Rosetta-Wireless Corp. (West Chicago, IL)

Develop a wallet-sized, wireless server for America's mobile workforce that will provide medical, sales, and service personnel with secure, instant access to all e-mail and automatically undated data files every.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,391,080
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000

Contact: C. Keith Campbell, (630) 561-0410, kcampbell@RosettaWireless.com


Room Temperature Storage-Living Human Cells and Organs
Stratatech Corp. (Madison, WI)

Develop and demonstrate methods to enable ice-free freezing and drying processes for room-temperature preservation and shipping of living cells, tissues and tissue engineered products.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,646,687
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,999,608

Contact: Paul Conrad, (608) 441-2750, pconrad@stratatechcorp.com or lah@stratechcorp.com


Superconducting MRI Array Coil
Supertron Technologies, Inc. (Newark, NJ)

Design, build, and test arrays of superconducting coils that will greatly improve image quality and reduce image acquisition time in magnetic resonance imaging procedures.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,675,000
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000
Contact: Dr. Erzhen Gao, (973) 639-1112, X106, egao@supertron.com

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC)
TIAX LLC (Cambridge, MA)

Design and demonstrate technologies for low-cost solid oxide fuel cells that use novel materials to interconnect components and, thereby increase durability and power.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $4,156,434
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,966,635

Contact: Twig Mowatt, (617) 498-7366, mowatt.twig@tiax.biz


Small-Scale Hydrogen Generation
Virent Energy Systems, LLC

Develop and demonstrate catalyst and reactor technologies that use nonflammable, renewable feedstocks to produce hydrogen for fuel cells offering five times the energy density of advanced batteries.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,553,278
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,972,703

Contact: Dr. Randy Cortright, (608) 663-0228, randy-cortright@virent.com


Ultrasonic Metal Welding
Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, MI)

Develop ultrasonic metal welding technology for the mass production of aluminum automobile bodies to improve vehicle fuel economy.

Other project participants:

  • American Technology, Inc.
  • Sonobond Ultrasonics
  • Edison Welding Inst.

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $8,910,000
  • Requested ATP funds: $4,395,000

Contact: Kay Milewski, (313) 845-7307, kmilesk@ford.com


Methanol-Fueled Steam Reformer
Motorola, Inc., Motorola Labs (Tempe, AZ)

Develop a miniature catalyst fuel processor that will provide high energy density and higher power for a wide range of fuel cell-based portable power applications.

Other project participants:

  • Engelhard Corporation

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $4,732,207
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,318,781

Contact: Dr. Jerry Hallmark, (480) 755-5588, Jerry.Hallmark@motorola.com


Next Generation Dialog System
Robert Bosch Corp., Research and Technology Center (Palo Alto, CA)

Develop an interactive natural-language dialogue system that operates various in-car devices through conversational speech, thus making driving easier and safer.

Other project participants:

  • Volkswagen of America, Electronic Research Laboratory
  • Leland Stanford Junior University
  • SRI International, Speech Technology and Research

  • Project duration: 7/1/2003 - 6/30/2006
  • Total project (est.): $5,843,182
  • Requested ATP funds: $2,921,291

Contact: Dr. Fuliang Weng, (650) 320-2952, fuliang.weng@rtc.bosch.com

FY 2003 Funding as of May 5, 2003 (Batch 1 of ATP FY2002 Competition)

40 Gb/s Widely Tunable Photonic Integrated Transmitter
Agility Communications (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Develop a photonic integrated circuit that integrates a widely tunable laser, an optical amplifier, and a high-speed optical modulator, dramatically cutting costs for tunable transmitters widely used in Internet data systems.

  • Project duration: 6/1/2003 - 5/31/2006
  • Total project (est.): $3,004,000.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,999,761.00

Contact: Heidi Groshelle, (415) 563-1893 heidi@trainerpr.com


Kine-assist for Physical Therapists
Chicago PT Inc. (Evanston, Ill.)
Develop and demonstrate a prototype robotic tool, the kine-assist, that will enable physical therapists to deliver more intensive and effective rehabilitation therapy to stroke patients.

  • Project duration: 6/1/2003 - 11/30/2004
  • Total project (est.): $1,814,626.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,501,626.00

Contact: Michael Peshkin, (847) 491-4630


Immune System Evading Targeted Gene Therapy Vectors
ISOGENIS Inc. (Denver, Colo.)
Develop gene therapy vectors that both cure disease and prevent harmful immune response against the therapy, as well as develop a system to selectively deliver the vectors to diseased tissues.

  • Project duration: 6/1/2003 - 5/31/2006
  • Total project (est.): $2,154,983.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,998,903.00

Contact: John R. Price, (303) 886-0700 jprice@isogenis.com


Industrial Genome Engineering
Metabolix Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.)
Reengineer the central metabolism of E. coli bacteria and demonstrate that the new strains efficiently convert renewable sugars into high-performance biodegradable polymers.

  • Project duration: 6/1/2003 - 5/31/2005
  • Total project (est.): $3,282,236.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,640,868.00

Contact: Oliver Peoples, (617) 492-0505 x212 peoples@metabolix.com


he Advanced Mobile Application Testing Environment
Mobile Systems Verification Corp. (Chicago, Ill.)
Develop next-generation automated testing technology to improve mobile information system reliability.

  • Project duration: 6/1/2003 - 5/31/2005
  • Total project (est.): $2,054,551.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,934,551.00

Contact: Robert V. Binder, (312) 342-0003 info@MobileSystemsVerification.com


Reactive Atom Plasma (RAP) Processing-A Novel Process for Rapid Optics Fabrication
RAPT Industries Inc. (Livermore, Calif.)
Extend the capabilities of reactive atom plasma (RAP) processing so that it can be used to rapidly shape and polish delicate optical and semiconductor materials without damaging them.

  • Project duration: 5/1/2003 - 10/31/2005
  • Total project (est.): $3,512,442.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,950,000.00

Contact: Peter S. Fiske, Ph.D., (925) 371-7278 peterfiske@raptindustries.com


Software Infrastructure to Support Impromptu Collaboration Among Multiple Mobile Device Users
Valaran Corp. (Princeton, N.J.)
Develop and test telecommunications software that enables secure collaboration among multiple parties in impromptu groups using heterogeneous mobile wireless devices.

  • Project duration: 6/1/2003 - 5/31/2006
  • Total project (est.): $3,039,781.00
  • Requested ATP funds: $1,818,916.00

Contact: Dr. Aleta Ricciardi, (609) 945-7223 aleta.ricciardi@valaran.com


Date created: May 3, 2003
Last updated: April 12, 2005

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