Abstracts of these news stories are presented below in chronological order, starting with the most recent.
DoD's Walter Reed Institute Exclusively Licenses Liver Cell Line to Thai Biotech (05/28/2008)
BioTech Transfer Week - The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the largest biomedical research laboratory in the US Department of Defense, has exclusively licensed an immortalized liver cell line to Thai biotech firm Siam Life Science for use in preclinical drug-evaluation and -safety studies. Read More... |
Stable New Welding Cart Improving Safety In Workplace (01/31/2008)
Safety Online -- An enhanced safety welding cart patented by the U.S. Air Force Vandenberg Air Force Base Training Device Design and Engineering Center (TDDEC) to increase the safety and well being of airmen is now available commercially through Spika Welding & Manufacturing Inc., Moccasin, Montana. Read More... |
Small Schools' Big Tech Dreams (10/17/2007)
BusinessWeek -- Even colleges and universities with less R&D funding can find profitable niches in tech transfer, a study finds Read More... |
Military Contract Fuels Lewistown Plant (09/26/2007)
Great Falls Tribune -- A Lewistown-area manufacturing company is building a new manufacturing plant outside of town after recently signing a $2.9 million contract to build platforms for the Department of Defense. Read More... |
NineSigma Partners With TechLink Adding Department of Defense to Global Network (07/27/2007)
Earthtimes.org -- NineSigma, a leading provider of open innovation solutions to the enterprise, today announced that TechLink, a federal technology transfer intermediary, has joined its Innovation Alliance Program -- a global network of leading scientists, technologists and innovators. Read More... |
Company Develops Waterproof Computer (07/05/2007)
Missoulian.com -- In an industry with few of its own tools, THI RiverWorks Inc. has come up with a shockproof, waterproof computer just for river restoration. Read More... |
For River Restoration Company, Business is Booming (06/21/2007)
Billings Gazette -- It seems fitting that next door to where the government once considered building a hydroelectric dam - a structure that would have flooded much of Montana's Paradise Valley - Mike Sprague headquartered his river restoration business. Read More... |
MSU's MilTech Featured in GAO Report on Programs Helping Small Manufacturers (06/20/2007)
Montana Associated Technology Roundtables -- In a recently released report to Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) surveyed 254 federal programs that provide services to support the US business sector. Read More... |
Xpert Will Speed Cleanup of Brownfields (04/23/2007)
New Hamshire Union Leader -- Xpert Design and Diagnostics (XDD) has successfully tested a system that promises faster and cheaper cleanup of underground volatile organic compounds. Read More... |
Compound Has Been Shown to Counter Noise-Related Loss (04/06/2007)
San Diego Union-Tribune -- Cpl. John Shahin doesn't remember the sound of the bomb that hit his Humvee in Iraq three years ago, leaving the 22-year-old Marine with hearing loss and other lingering injuries. Read More... |
Invention Offers Cheaper, Faster Way to Clean Water (03/30/2007)
Ventura County Star -- The pipe in Andrew Drucker's cubicle, only a half-inch in diameter, is a prototype device that could reduce the cost of cleaning up contaminated groundwater by millions of dollars. Read More... |
MilTech Helps Firms Meet Military Demands (10/21/2006)
The Daily Inter Lake -- When U.S. troops rescued Pfc. Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital in 2003, they put her in a “Rescue Wrap” — a down-filled, sleeping-bag-like wrap with pockets for intravenous lines and heat packs. Read More... |
From Military to Civilians, Hooah! Bar Crosses Front Lines (03/07/2005)
The Wall Street Journal -- Retired U.S. Army Sergeant Major Rick Cayton says he isn't interested in most energy bars available at his local grocery store in Killeen, a small town near the Fort Hood military base in central Texas. But the decorated Vietnam War veteran says he loves the Hooah! bar, the official nutrition bar of the U.S. military. Read More... |
On the fast track: Programs aim to speed pace of technology development (03/01/2005)
C4ISR Journal -- Sue Payton, Deputy undersecretary of defense for advanced systems and concepts on technology transition. Read More... |
Army, First Responders Getting the Hook (07/01/2004)
National Defense -- Soldiers and first responders soon will get the hook, literally. Read More... |
Head Above Water (06/01/2004)
Security -- Most everyone is familiar with the threats and vulnerabilities, as well as many of the security technologies and procedures, that protect airports and airplanes. Read More... |
Retractable Grappling Hook (06/01/2004)
Special Operations Technologies -- Capewell Components Inc., South Windsor, CT, has licensed from the U.S. Army, a lightweight, retractable grappling hook for boarding boats and scaling walls and buildings. Read More... |
TechLink celebrates success in helping businesses grow (12/06/2003)
Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- It seems like a stretch to imagine that computer software designed to help Navy submarines tell the difference between an underwater attacker and a whale would be of any use in Montana. Read More... |
Montana Organization Helps Alaska Start-Ups (11/26/2003)
Alaska Journal of Commerce -- Montana and Alaska are a lot alike. Both have resource-based economies, small populations, and wide open spaces. Read More... |
Scientists Seeking Pill to Cut Hearing Loss From Noise (10/15/2003)
Associated Press Worldstream -- Scientists have been accumulating evidence in lab animals for years that a pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing. Now they're sending in the Marines. Read More... |
New Technology from SensoPath Technologies, Inc. in Bozeman Helps Detect Bioterrorist Agents (08/30/2003)
Montana Associated Technology Roundtables -- A technology to detect and identify bioterrorist pathogens -- such as anthrax toxin, botulism toxin, plague and tularemia bacteria -- is the focus of a new Bozeman business. Read More... |
MSU TechLink: Reeling in New Economic Opportunities (08/07/2003)
Billings Gazette -- Once again it's summertime in Montana, and anglers from every part of the world are plying the waters of our blue ribbon trout streams. Read More... |
Military Spy Technology Could Be Boon to Local Scientists (08/05/2003)
Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- The military is supplying airplanes that have been flying over the northern Yellowstone region in July, carrying devices that incorporate both radar and hyperspectral imaging, which translate an image of an object such as a tree into a wide variety of colors. Read More... |
NASA Satellites to Aid Historical Mapping Site (01/16/2003)
Missoulian -- A Missoula technology company has joined NASA to explore the geographical history of Lewis and Clark's journey, and how the land has changed in the past 200 years. Read More... |
Lewis and Clark Maps Stay Relevant (01/07/2003)
GEOWorld -- Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark didn't have the luxury of digital orthophoto quadrangles or 10-meter- resolution commercial imagery when they led a 35-member "Corps of Discovery" on a trek across the uncharted interior of the United States in the early 1800s. Read More... |
Tracking Lewis and Clark in Space (12/23/2002)
MSNBC -- The U.S. Congress made an Apollo-like decision nearly 200 years ago to dispatch an expedition of explorers into uncharted territory. Read More... |
Laser Firm Builds Inspection Prototype for Space Agency (12/01/2002)
Photonics Spectra -- Laser Techniques Co. of Bellevue, Wash., has completed the first task of a NASA contract for the development of a miniature automated laser scanner that may improve the safety of space shuttles. Read More... |
Revealing the Trail: Anyone, Anywhere Can See Where Lewis & Clark Trekked (11/13/2002)
Space News - A vast cache of satellite imagery along the Lewis and Clark trail will become available to the public for the first time through a new partnership between NASA and GCS Research, a geospatial information technology company in Missoula, Mont., the Montana State University TechLink center today announced. Read More... |
NASA to Test Coating for Spacecraft (10/21/2002)
Space News -- NASA will test a new coating developed by Aircraft Finishing Systems for use on future spacecraft, the Montana State University TechLink Center announced Sept. 20. Read More... |
NASA to Test Montana Product (09/20/2002)
Billings Gazette -- NASA plans to test the product of a Montana company to see if it can be used to protect orbiting satellites. Read More... |
Whitefish Co. Wraps Multiple EO Snaps Into One Map (07/29/2002)
SpaceDaily -- Like piecing a jigsaw puzzle together, Digital Images Made Easy (DIME(tm)), a new software product developed and marketed by Positive Systems, Inc., of Whitefish, Mont., can integrate a series of aerial or satellite snapshots into a single panoramic image, providing a cost-effective and time-saving new tool for urban and rural resource managers and planners. Read More... |
HyPerspectives to Find and Identify Camouflaged Objects for Air Force (06/10/2002)
SpaceDaily -- HyPerspectives, a Bozeman company that specializes in analyzing remotely sensed images of the earth, won a $100,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop new methods for identification of camouflaged military targets. Read More... |
Now Hear This...Help for Those with Hearing Loss (06/04/2002)
FLC NewsLink -- There is good news for the more than 39 million individuals who are at risk or suffer from hearing loss caused by noise or chemical exposure. Read More... |
Navy-Licensed Technology Could Treat Hearing Loss (04/04/2002)
Federal Technology Report -- A novel pharmaceutical technology to help prevent and restore certain types of hearing loss has been licensed by the U.S. Navy exclusively to American BioHealth Group LLC, and could benefit service personnel as well as the American public. Read More... |
Preempting Aircraft Wiring Failures (03/01/2002)
AFRL Technology Horizons -- Preempting aircraft wiring failures will have a direct impact in making commercial and military aircraft safer. Read More... |
Commercial Technology Network and Affiliations (01/01/2002)
NASA Spinoff -- The NASA Commercial Technology Program sponsors a number of organizations around the country that are designed to assist U.S. businesses in accessing, utilizing, and commercializing NASA-funded research and technology. Read More... |
Think Tanks (01/01/2002)
NASA Spinoff -- Storage tanks are absolutely critical to the needs of the petroleum and chemical industry. Read More... |
New Technology Sparks Smoother Engines and Cleaner Air (01/01/2002)
NASA Spinoff -- Automotive Resources, Inc. (ARI), of Sandpoint, Idaho, has developed a new device for igniting fuel in engines--the SmartPlugTM. Read More... |
NASA Aids Archaeologist Tracking Lewis and Clark Sites (11/04/2001)
Oregonian -- Searching for Lewis and Clark's campsites is Ken Karsmizki's passion. In the past 15 years, the archaeologist has spent countless hours digging for vestiges of the expedition. Read More... |
Bozeman, MT: Aiming to Be an Entrepreneurial Hot-Spot (10/16/2001)
NCOE Update -- The first thing you notice about Bozeman, Montana is that it doesn't look like many other places. Read More... |
Company Roots Out Environmental Damage (09/30/2001)
Los Angeles Times (AP) -- Bitterroot Restoration Inc., headquartered in Corvallis, Mont., supplies
hardy native seedlings to heal disturbed land. Read More... |
Bitterroot Company Does the Entire Job When it Tackles an Environmental Cleanup (09/30/2001)
Associated Press -- When 46,000 plants are put in the ground on mined Navajo land in Arizona this October, the work will be steered by a Montana company with a niche in the vast business of trying to undo environmental damage. Read More... |
Bitterroot Restoration of Corvallis Receives Army Contract for Restoration Projects (09/23/2001)
Billings Gazette -- Bitterroot Restoration, Inc. of Corvallis, has received a five-year, $5 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for watershed and abandoned mine lands planning and restoration. Read More... |
NASA Will Help Find Sites of Lewis and Clark Camps (09/23/2001)
The Associated Press -- NASA scientists here are taking archaeology to new heights, teaming with researchers in Oregon on the 200-year-old trail of Lewis and Clark. Read More... |
NASA Scientists Taking Lewis and Clark Journey to New Heights with Help of Satellite Imagery (09/20/2001)
NASA News Service -- The Lewis and Clark expedition was a two-year journey into a new frontier that helped put the West on the map. Read More... |
Montana Grain Growers Harness the Power of NASA Through MSU TechLink (09/20/2001)
SpaceDaily -- Montana's high tech farmers are looking at their fields with new "eye in the sky" technology this summer, thanks to NASA and the MSU TechLink Center. Read More... |
Hunt for Lewis, Clark Boat Goes High-Tech (09/11/2001)
Great Falls Tribune -- Oh, how explorers and science buffs Meriwether Lewis and William Clark would have marveled if they were in a field a couple miles south of Great Falls Monday. Read More... |
In Brief: NASA Turns Sights On Lewis And Clark Encampments (09/10/2001)
Aviation Now -- NASA researchers will team up with a leading archeologist to use aerial and satellite images to try to identify and map sites along the trail of fabled explorers Lewis and Clark, who opened the American West to development two centuries ago. Read More... |
NASA Helps Archaeologist Find Lewis and Clark Sites (09/07/2001)
NationalTrust.org -- This week, researchers at NASA's Stennis Space Center, in southern Mississippi, and noted archaeologist Ken Karsmizki announced a joint venture to map sites along the trail of Lewis and Clark, who explored uncharted territory west of the Mississippi River for the American government 200 years ago. Read More... |
Archaeologist Uses Air Force Robot (08/27/2001)
Associated Press -- "She lay like a cork,'' he wrote in his journal. But the iron-framed boat that Lewis designed floated only for a moment before it leaked and sank, taking with it his high spirits. "The circumstance mortified me not a little,'' he wrote. Read More... |
Archaeologist Gets Robotic Help in Search for Iron Boat (08/10/2001)
Great Falls Tribune -- A Space Age robot has been enlisted to join the search for the iron boat an archaeologist believes Lewis and Clark buried in a field south of Great Falls in 1805. Read More... |
TechLink Partners Utah Company with Army Corps to Evaluate Innovative Bridge Scour Monitoring System (04/01/2001)
Monosys Guide to Monitoring -- The TechLink Center at Montana State University helps companies throughout the Northwest region of the United States to establish productive technology development and commercialization partnerships with NASA and DoD, and other federal government agencies. Read More... |
TechLink Helps Companies in Northwest Blast Into Aerospace (03/27/2001)
SpaceDaily -- The TechLink Center at Montana State University helps companies throughout the Northwest to establish productive technology development and commercialization partnerships with NASA, the Department of Defense (DoD), and other federal agencies. Read More... |
Machine Allows Detailed Look at 'Snow Profile' (01/11/2001)
Missoulian -- As increasing numbers of recreationists head into the backcountry each winter, pursuing a variety of outdoor activities, the ability to predict avalanche danger becomes ever more crucial. Read More... |
Oregon Company and Army Corps of Engineers Team Up for Bioremediation Research (12/06/2000)
FLC Environmental Newsletter -- Monitoring field persistence of introduced microorganisms and evaluating their relationships with contaminants in soil is the focus of a research agreement between Enzyme Technologies, Inc. (ETEC) of Portland, OR and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center-Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, NH. Read More... |
Mission to Mars May Begin on this Idaho Reservation (10/25/2000)
Christian Science Monitor -- The door of teacher Ed Galindo's classroom at Shoshone-Bannock High School reads: Yih'Yih'Tzin Agudu Duvoponeed. Read More... |
A Space Mission Built on Putty and Steel Tubs (09/27/2000)
Christian Science Monitor -- With an industrial drill, a cement mixer, and a galvanized steel tub as basic implements, John Wickman could be mistaken for any backyard handyman attending to his weekend chores. Read More... |
SmartPlugs: A Better Idea? (09/07/2000)
Aero-News Network -- Flying his aircraft without magnetos, and changing fuel types in-flight were things Dr. Forrest Bird thought he would never live to see. Read More... |
A Novel Miniature Confocal Microscope/Raman Spectrometer System for Biomolecular Analysis on Future Mars Missions after Antarctic Trials (08/01/2000)
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy -- An International Partnership initiated by TechLink is providing new testing applications and environments for a unique new instrument funded by NASA JPL for a possible future NASA Mars mission. Read More... |
Biotech Research Plows Untrodden Frontiers (07/31/2000)
Christian Science Monitor -- Montana Biotech is one of the quiet companies making amazing breakthroughs in biotechnology, far from the traditional centers of advanced research and development. Read More... |
Novel Rockets Speed Dreams of Sending People to Mars (06/20/2000)
New York Times -- A new type of rocket engine under development could halve the travel time between Earth and Mars -- should NASA ever decide to send astronauts there. Read More... |
A Clean Machine? Solution to Snowmobile Pollution May Be on Park's Horizon (03/20/2000)
Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- Scientists in Bozeman and Idaho say they may have a solution to the vexing problem of snowmobiles spewing tons of pollution into the otherwise pristine air of Yellowstone National Park Read More... |
Moving Into the 21st Century (03/10/2000)
Montana Business Quarterly -- Mapping noxious weeds with remote sensing equipment, protecting cancer patients from radiation's harmful effects, and developing a Mars Cargo Vehicle for deep space travel are just a few of the projects Montana high-tech firms are working on as the millennium nears. Read More... |
Composites Could Help U.S. Army Lighten Up (03/03/2000)
Defense News -- U.S. Army scientists and engineers at the service's research laboratory in New Jersey say they are one or two years away from a breakthrough in composite materials that could substantially reduce the weight of armored vehicles. Read More... |
High-Tech Camera Sees What Eye Cannot (11/15/1999)
New York Times -- A helicopter clatters loudly over the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park, flying low and slow to snap images of the patchwork of creeks, meadows, pine and fir. Read More... |
A Grand Experiment: Flyovers and Remote Sensing Try to Locate the Invaders (09/01/1999)
Fencelines -- From the peaks above this historic town, it's easy to imagine miners discovering gold and the dramas that played out between vigilantes and road agents. Read More... |
Wyoming Company Successfully Test-fires Rocket Engines for Mars Exploration (07/19/1999)
Aviation Week - TechLink client Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion Co. has successfully test-fired rocket and jet engines that use carbon dioxide as an oxidizer. Read More... |
"SmartPlug" Technology Demonstrated for Heavy Fuel Use in General Aviation Engine (07/19/1999)
Aviation Week -- A Catalytic Igniter technology developed by Automotive Resources, Inc. (ARI) has demonstrated its capability by improving power and performance in a Continental 0-200 aircraft engine operating on either avgas or Jet-A fuel, with magnetos removed and even after electrical power cut-off. Read More... |
Belgrade Company Lands Defense Contract; TechLink Center Assists MT Biotech Corp. (06/03/1999)
High Country Independent Press -- Montana Senator Conrad Burns on Tuesday announced Montana Biotech Corp. of Belgrade has received a $900,000 contract from the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), which provides funding for a three-year research project to develop safe adhesives for military and commercial use. Read More... |
NASA Licenses Technology to Big Sky Laser (05/11/1999)
PTB Industry News -- Aerospace technology originally developed by NASA for remote sensing of Earth's atmosphere has been licensed to a Montana company to increase the reliability of lasers. Read More... |
Firm Signs Deal with NASA (05/07/1999)
Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- A Bozeman-based laser manufacturer will begin adding high-tech NASA equipment to its products, under an agreement signed Thursday with the space agency. Read More... |
The Stars Are the Limit (05/02/1999)
Billings Gazette -- NASA scientists spend much of their time with their heads in the clouds. Read More... |
Earthly Good from NASA's Space Technology (05/01/1999)
Range -- What comes to mind when you think of NASA-the National Aeronautics and Space Administration? Perhaps "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" or "God speed, John Glenn." Read More... |
Tiger in the Tank (03/29/1999)
Aviation Week -- Solex Environmental's "Maverick" fuel storage tank inspection robot recently successfully completed a bottom floor inspection of an Amoco floating-roof tank near Baton Rouge, La. Read More... |
Robotic Inspection of Jet Fuel Tanks Saves Money, Increases Safety (03/01/1999)
Aviation Week Airports Today -- Solex Robotics Systems, Idaho Falls, Idaho, created Maverick, a rugged tank floor robot that allows in-service inspection of aboveground aviation fuel tanks for mandated corrosion and structural integrity checks. Read More... |
NASA Provides Technology of the Future to American Farmers Today (02/05/1999)
Agri-News -- Although we think of NASA as focused on the heavens, the innovations they've created are being used here at home. Read More... |
Montana to Mexico: Easing Export Flows (02/01/1999)
Trade & Forfaiting Review -- Small, but innovative environmental technology firms in remote parts of Montana are finding help with exporting through MSU TechLink, the technology transfer arm of Montana State University. Read More... |
Put a Robot in Your Tank (12/01/1998)
Ingersoll-Rand's Compressed Air Magazine -- A remote-controlled submersible robot designed to inspect the bottoms of petroleum and chemical storage tanks recently took a dive into the huge pool at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL), Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. Read More... |
High-Tech Maps (09/14/1998)
Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- A new $600,000 grant from NASA could help area researchers create detailed maps of things as diverse as lynx habitat, grizzly bear feeding areas and spotted knapweed infestations. Read More... |
Wyoming Company Chosen to Develop Mars Probe (07/25/1998)
Laramie Daily Boomerang -- The NASA Mars Instrument Development Program has chosen a Wyoming company to develop a probe to search for signs of life on Mars. Read More... |
NASA Technology Down to Earth (07/01/1998)
Western Coal -- NASA technology used to geologically prospect planetary surfaces is being adapted to test ore quality in the Earth's mines. Read More... |
Geyser Life as Window on Mars (05/06/1998)
Christian Science Monitor -- Microbes found in Yellowstone's hot springs provide a glimpse of what could exist on Mars. Read More... |
