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New Insect Repellent Compounds And Pharmacophore Model

The US Army seeks to commercialize through patent licensing four promising insect repellent compounds and a pharmacophore model for identifying additional arthropod repellent molecules.

Agriculture, Environmental, Medicine & Biotechnology
Easy-to-Use Classifier for Complex Problems

The US Navy seeks industry partners to license and commercialize a user-friendly, automated classifier. The Bayesian Data Reduction Algorithm (BDRA) has outstanding potential for applications such as insurance scoring, fraud detection, customer profiling for direct marketing, medical diagnosis, and financial market modeling.

Software
Universal Internal Positive Control for PCR

The US Army seeks to commercialize through licensing a straightforward, effective, universal exogenous internal positive control (UEIPC) for monitoring inhibitors of PCR. This versatile innovation allows for confirmation of negative results as a true negative. It is most suitable for Taqman® based assays. The Joint Program Executive Office of the Department of Defense has chosen this as the solution for its internal positive control. The UEIPC is also incorporated in a new diagnostic test for Leishmania that DOD is submitting to the FDA for approval.

Environmental, Medicine & Biotechnology
High Assurance Solution for Secure Network Data Transfer

Navy Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Network Pump

The US Naval Research Laboratory seeks to commercialize their Network Pump technology which provides a high security device and method for assuring one-way transfer of data across networks.

Software
All Reflective Wide Field of View Imaging System

The US Navy seeks to commercialize a unique technology which will optimize the formation of an image on a flat detector via a pair of ellipsoidal shaped reflective surfaces.

Photonics & Sensors