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| | Infineon Technologies | Erik Probstfield | |
Large Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| Semiconductor Research, Development and Manufacturing | Infineon Technologies is a global company with 56,200 employees (US: 5,580) and US $15.2B revenue in FY22 with wafer fabrication facilities in the US, Germany, Austria, and Malaysia. The company has number one market position in key applications such as Automotive, Power, Security IC’s and MEM microphones. Infineon R&D teams work out of 16 US based locations (as of Nov 22) and there are 4 US manufacturing locations (as of Sept 22). Infineon’s express mission is to profitably serve global megatrends in digitalization and decarbonization.
The Power, Sensor and Security (PSS) division represents 29% of FY22 revenue and utilizes technologies such as sensors, microcontrollers, memory devices, WiFi, Blue Tooth and USB. Power conversion and management accounts for a large fraction of PSS revenue and includes power MOSFETs (including RadHard MOSFETs) , SiC MOSFETs, GaN HEMTs, and Gate drivers among other devices. These technologies and components are combined to support our customers system solutions in a broad range of applications including Battery powered devices, industrial Internet of Things, Motor Drives, Smart phones, servers/datacenters, communications, satellites, solar photovoltaic applications and electric vehicle support electronics.
In conjunction with EERE and other partners from academia and industry Infineon plans to propose project work that will serve our twin goals of digitalization and decarbonization. Such work could leverage Infineon’s Technology Innovation and Engineering (TIE) team members with experience in GaN HEMT device design, TCAD, Design for engineering, applications, test ,characterization, applications and marketing. At labs in Arizona and California these team members are well equipped for project success. |
| CA |
| | Alden Research Laboratory, LLC | Dan Parker | |
Large Business
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Renewable Energy Integration (REI)
| | Alden Research Laboratory, Inc. (Alden) is an internationally acclaimed leader in solving flow-related engineering and environmental problems. For 126 years, Alden has provided engineering, field, and laboratory technical assessments to address regulatory agency compliance and operational requirements. With laboratories in Massachusetts and Washington and office across the country, Alden provides engineering services, environmental services, physical and computational flow modeling, flow meter calibration, and field services. Founded in 1894, Alden is the oldest continuously operating hydraulic modeling and testing laboratory in North America.
Alden’s experience with marine renewable energy and rich history in the hydropower industry combined with extensive experience with field data gathering, modern hydrokinetic turbine technologies, wave energy, and offshore wind energy makes us uniquely qualified to guide renewable energy project developers in feasibility and design, as well as in optimizing existing renewable energy generation resources.
Problems related to marine renewables energy systems and civil engineering hydraulics are addressed by Alden’s engineers and scientists using a combination of scaled physical modeling/testing and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Alden’s campus in Holden, Massachusetts includes over 150,000 sq. ft. of laboratory testing space. An additional 10,000 sq. ft. is available in our Everett, Washington facility. Within each facility, project-specific scaled models are customized, constructed, and tested to address a wide range of flow and technology performance issues and problems.
In addition, Alden also makes use of permanent facilities for applied research, including two large test flumes, several large test tanks, a tow tank and wave basins. Both flumes are capable of handling live fish allowing evaluations of fish strike, injury and survival testing or behavioral responses (e.g., avoidance).
Onsite field measurement services provide bathymetry, wave height and direction measurements, current velocity measurements, water and tide level data acquisition, sediment-water interface monitoring, and biological surveys. Projects have included testing of design performance of hydrokinetic devices and wave energy converters, as well as providing offshore wind energy services and evaluations of environmental impacts. |
| MA |
| | Alden Research Laboratory, LLC | Dan Parker | |
Large Business
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Buildings
| | Alden’s engineers, scientists and technicians provide design, investigation, and evaluation of air and gas flow related phenomenon to a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, biomedical/pharmaceutical, and ventilation and pollution control. Our engineers call upon Alden’s extensive history and experience testing and designing fluid dynamics systems, and apply that knowledge to solve problems using analytical models, computational fluid dynamic simulations, and laboratory testing of scaled and prototype systems.
Being able to provide both physical and computational flow modeling services under one roof ensures an appropriate technical approach, or combination of approaches, to solve specific flow problems or optimize system design. We fully evaluate the overall flow system and formulate effective plans to address the underlying causes of actual and/or potential operating problems.
Our team has many years of practical real-world field experience including:
- Ventilation system modeling and design, aided by both physical modeling and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling throughout the building design cycle
- CFD simulations to provide key performance data and flow visualization to optimize the comfort control technology and implementation of a state-of-the-art Variable Air Volume and Displacement Ventilation technology
- Flow modeling projects for industrial and aerospace clients, manufacturing plants, refineries, and government agencies
- A range of modeling and analysis key to understanding dust removal and pandemic resiliency
- Industrial emissions and air pollution controls
- Heavy involvement with the ASHRAE Technical Committees:
- Industrial Air Conditioning and Ventilation (TC 9.2)
Enclosed Vehicular Facilities (TC 5.9)
- Indoor Environmental Modeling (TC 4.10) |
| MA |
| | Alden Research Laboratory, LLC | Dan Parker | |
Large Business
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Bioenergy
| | For 129 years, Alden has provided engineering, field, and laboratory technical assessments to address regulatory agency compliance and operational requirements. Alden has earned the respect of state and federal resource agencies throughout the U.S. Alden also routinely works for private sector clients under non-disclosure agreements to design, optimize, and troubleshoot flow-related products and processes.
In addition to flow-related design services, our third party, independent consulting laboratory performs component testing, scaled experimental models for large installations, and complex computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling.
We have a history of working on flow-related grid scale storage projects, including CFD analysis of electrically and chemically reacting flows, density driven flows within stationary batteries. We have also performed both CFD and experimental analyses of several pumped head hydro installations, including flow patterns into/out of the pump/turbines, and the resulting effects on the sediment in the surrounding area. |
| MA |
| | Alden Research Laboratory, LLC | Dan Parker | |
Large Business
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Nuclear
| | Alden Research Laboratory, LLC (A Verdantas Company) is an internationally acclaimed leader in solving flow-related engineering and environmental problems. For over 126 years, Alden has provided engineering, field, and laboratory technical assessments to address regulatory agency compliance and operational requirements.
Alden’s Fluid System Performance Division is dedicated to serving industries that place a high value on quality and where fluid system performance must be assured. These industries include: nuclear power, aerospace, and military/defense. This Division serves these industries by providing exceptional value-added services in emergent issue resolution, design and optimization, equipment qualification, and fluid system technology development.
To fully serve the nuclear industry, and allow Alden to provide safety-related testing and analysis, Alden operates a mature and highly regarded 10CFR50 Appendix B and 10CFR21 quality assurance program. The program has been operational since early 2012 and has been audited and accepted by multiple utilities and vendors.
Types of services provided by Alden:
Small scale and large scale testing—to replicate the appropriate conditions in the most efficient manner possible.
Fluid system analysis—CFD analyses for a variety of complex fluid phenomena including cavitation, compressible flow, heat transfer, buoyant and stratified flows, chemical reactions (including combustion), and debris transport, among others
Component qualification—including flow capacity testing, evaluation of debris capacity, valve torque requirements, measured heat-transfer performance, verified mechanical endurance or noise emission requirements. Alden has a particularly long and in-depth history with the qualification of nuclear power plant ECCS strainers .
Fluid transient mitigation—leveraging Alden’s computational and experimental expertise to successfully assess, eliminate, or mitigate the adverse effects of fluid transients
Fluid system component design—particularly for devices that avoid cavitation in relatively large pressure drops. |
| MA |
| | Alden Research Laboratory, LLC | Dan Parker | |
Large Business
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Water Power
| | Alden Research Laboratory, LLC (A Verdantas Company) is an internationally acclaimed leader in solving flow-related engineering and environmental problems. For 126 years, Alden has provided engineering, field, and laboratory technical assessments to address regulatory agency compliance and operational requirements. With laboratories in Massachusetts and Washington and office across the country, Alden provides engineering services, environmental services, physical and computational flow modeling, flow meter calibration, and field services. Founded in 1894, Alden is the oldest continuously operating hydraulic modeling and testing laboratory in North America.
Alden’s experience with marine renewable energy and rich history in the hydropower industry combined with extensive experience with field data gathering, modern hydrokinetic turbine technologies, wave energy, and offshore wind energy makes us uniquely qualified to guide renewable energy project developers in feasibility and design, as well as in optimizing existing renewable energy generation resources.
Problems related to marine renewables energy systems and civil engineering hydraulics are addressed by Alden’s engineers and scientists using a combination of scaled physical modeling/testing and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Alden’s campus in Holden, Massachusetts includes over 150,000 sq. ft. of laboratory testing space. An additional 10,000 sq. ft. is available in our Everett, Washington facility. Within each facility, project-specific scaled models are customized, constructed, and tested to address a wide range of flow and technology performance issues and problems.
In addition, Alden also makes use of permanent facilities for applied research, including two large test flumes, several large test tanks, a tow tank and wave basins. Both flumes are capable of handling live fish allowing evaluations of fish strike, injury and survival testing or behavioral responses (e.g., avoidance).
Onsite field measurement services provide bathymetry, wave height and direction measurements, current velocity measurements, water and tide level data acquisition, sediment-water interface monitoring, and biological surveys. Projects have included testing of design performance of hydrokinetic devices and wave energy converters, as well as providing offshore wind energy services and evaluations of environmental impacts. |
| MA |
| | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. | Shannon O'Reilly | |
Small Business
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Solar
| | • ASTI provides end-to-end services including design, development, manufacturing, and support of our production-ready solar modules in our state-of-the art headquarters just outside of Denver, Colorado
• Custom engineering and modeling services for solar integration into new or existing systems including, but not limited to, packaging, layout, and customer specifications
• We offer a wide range of finished and custom solar solutions for defense, aerospace, agrivoltaic applications
• The seamless integration of our solar technology allows for increased flight time and superior power-to-weight ratio to keep your vehicle light.
• Engineered for optimal performance in sub-zero temperatures and minimal sunlight, our ultra-thin and lightweight solar modules are an ideal fit for aerospace exploration
• Packaged solar modules range from <1 to 120 Watts and <1 to 300 Volts
• Novel processes CIGS thin film cell and module manufacturing
• Next-gen PV development laboratories
• Space and near-space PV blanket design
• Packaging & Encapsulation |
| CO |
| | GismoPower LLC | Achim Ginsberg-Klemmt | |
Small Business
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Solar
| AOI 4: EERE Solar Energy Technology Office 4) Innovations focused on dual-use, application-, and climate-specific applications (e.g., agrivoltaics, building-integrated solar PV, floating solar PV, vehicle-integrated solar PV) | Small businesses need and want a cost-effective option for bringing their PV-EV Charger® system with them when relocating, but most small businesses that are not home-based use leased spaces, essentially shutting them out of the distributed PV market. The portability of the MEGA allows the system to be easily disconnected from the grid, loaded onto a trailer, and re-deployed and permitted at a new location when a business is moved.
GismoPower’s standardized MEGA® rack eliminates soft costs associated with custom design, custom engineering and custom installation. The metal MEGA racks include 9 bifacial PV modules per rack. Because of its lower price point coupled with functional advantages, GismoPower primarily targets small businesses and residential applications, especially commercial small business industrial zones, single-family, detached homes (SFDHs), multi-family homes, and homeowners associations. However, anywhere with a sunny driveway or a parking lot is a good location to deploy a GismoPower MEGA®. Since the frames are portable and on wheels, they can be stored in a garage, storage shed or hanger during dangerous weather conditions. No dedicated single-use real estate area is needed. Portability and the integration of three functional components sets the MEGA apart from permanent solar carport structures, ground-mounted photovoltaic arrays and classic rooftop solar installations.
While GismoPower’s ultimate goal for the MEGA® is to offer a portable, grid-tied, UL-listed, and permit-free electricity generating household appliance, GismoPower has the initial goal to reach the beachhead market as a transportable solar carport, permitted and interconnected to the electric grid through the established permitting procedures for fixed solar carports. Permitting and interconnecting the MEGA with the electric grid is in sight with the help of EEDAS Structural Engineering Inc. who is in the process of finalizing signed and sealed engineering plans supporting maximum sustained wind speeds up to 130mph.
GismoPower's patent is the rack on wheels itself. We look forward to considering partnerships with either newfangled components to improve the UL-listed system, or utilizing our MEGA deployment method for DES, VPP or other technology with focus on delivering powerful, portable, affordable solar for either residential or commercial applications. |
| FL |
| | OxiCool Development Center | Gary Ezekian | |
Small Business
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Cross-Cutting
| | The OxiCool Development Center is a new approach to building out and scaling up solutions in the ClimateTech & HardTech space. Leveraging our modern facility in the greater Philadelphia area with the latest in fabrication equipment and an experienced team of engineers & technicians, OxiCool engages in flexible partnerships with early-stage startups and lab researchers to collaboratively mature their technologies. Our team is well suited to work closely with domain specialists and support the TRL4 to TRL7 maturation sweet spot. We are open to a spectrum of creative arrangements that take advantage of our capabilities and infrastructure, including joint grant applications, licensing, work for equity, and build to print work packages. |
| PA |
| | Via Science, Inc (VIA) | Colin Gounden | |
Small Business
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Cross-Cutting
| | Summary: Via Science, Inc. (“VIA”) is a small business with a mission to make communities cleaner, safer, and more equitable through Web3 and blockchain-controlled data privacy.
Background
Mission: Make communities cleaner, safer, and more equitable
Team:
45 FTEs
Members of the VIA leadership team have worked together for 5 to 25 years with two successful exits
Large percentage of PhDs and graduates from Harvard, MIT, and other top universities
Web3 Technology:
10 issued patents related to data privacy and federated data analysis
Cybersecurity accreditation to TOP SECRET level with U.S. DoD
Scale testing with a major U.S. intelligence agency
Interest
Collective good from collective action
National Security: Humanitarian aid and secure logistics through integration of building, electric vehicle, and workflow data across multiple secure systems
Improved Health: Reduced respiratory illnesses due to increased adoption of clean energy in neighborhoods through real-time verification of energy demand at building and tenant level, and fuel source verification for electric vehicles
Community-Led Resilience: Increased grid flexibility of clean energy in neighborhoods through real-time incentives to balance renewable supply, and V2B and V2G charging
Capabilities
Web3 technologies to verify, integrate, analyze private data:
Verify: Real-time and anonymous verification of valuable data (e.g., clean energy)
Integrate: Connect data sources currently decentralized, and / or inaccessible due to privacy
Analyze: Enable experts and third parties to analyze and act on data securely and confidently
Differentiation: Cybersecurity, Cost, Real-Time, Anonymity, Flexibility
Cybersecurity: The only blockchain and Web3 platform with a U.S. Department of Defense TOP SECRET level accreditation, ideal for critical infrastructure (i.e., energy) customers
Cost: Web3 tech stack enables cost-effective coordination of volumes of decentralized assets
Real-Time: Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) provide real-time verification of energy to enable real-time compensation
Anonymity: ZKPs provide anonymous verification of energy consumption / generation
Flexibility: Smart contracts enable programmable flexibility of timing, thresholds, and incentives for energy |
| MA |
| | LabStart Innovations Inc. | Troy Daley | |
Non-Profit
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Cross-Cutting
| Helping National Labs incorporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in technology commercialization programs | LabStart's mission is two-fold: 1) to commercialize technologies out of our national labs that address our climate crisis and 2) to build pathways to climate tech entrepreneurship for underrepresented people. We completed a successful pilot with an entrepreneur, Aaron Fitzgerald, commercializing an NREL technology for carbon utilization company and forming his company, Mars Materials. Aaron successfully raised capital and recently became a Breakthrough Energy Fellow.
LabStart is looking to help National Labs by recruiting qualified, diverse and underrepresented entrepreneurs, providing entrepreneurship and commercialization training, and by being a liaison between the entrepreneurs and the National Labs' licensing office. We prepare these entrepreneurs to be the best candidates for licensing and commercializing climate technologies from the US National Labs. |
| CA |
| | Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation CMI | Andre Sharon | |
Non-Profit
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| | The Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation CMI is an established performer of applied R&D contracts for industry and government, with expertise in in developing and deploying custom turnkey industrial automation solutions for a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, materials, consumer products, construction, photonics, energy and biotechnology. Founded in 1995 and based on the Boston University campus, CMI has a worked with several government agencies, including: DOE, DoD, Massachusetts DOER, NSF and NYSERDA, as well as numerous companies including startups all the way to the largest multi-nationals. Examples industrial projects include a fully automated factory for plant-based pharmaceuticals production, a specialty rolling mill to produce bulk metallic glass substrates, metrology equipment for the production of fuel cells, and a laser-based gantry robotic system that images and modifies glass façades on high-rise buildings.
Area of Technical Expertise
1. High-speed manufacturing techniques for processes such as forming, stamping, molding, sealing, joining, coating, and roll-to-roll processing
2. Best practices for material and component handling
3. Additive and automated manufacturing/assembly processes
4. Technologies for in-line diagnostics and quality control/quality assurance
5. Sensors and other technologies to reduce manufacturing defects in high-throughput production
6. Mechanical design
7. Product development
8. Hardware and software prototyping and testing
9. Industrial automation
10. Design for manufacture (DFM)
11. Distributed energy resources (DER) integration and value stacking
12. Field testing, monitoring, and evaluation
13. Flexible building load modeling and prediction
14. Multi-objective control optimization |
| MA |
| | Torrent Energy | Richard Jarvis | |
Small Business
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| Decentralized Clean Hydrogen for Vehicles, Power Generation, Ammonia, wo/ CO2 emissions | Torrent Energy, a proven, deployed technology to produce clean energy, green hydrogen. Torrent Energy plasma-based production systems are fully developed, deployed, and in operation today. Torrent has developed hydrogen production technology that can deliver clean hydrogen to today’s users, at a price competitive with “dirty” suppliers, without the need to build out supply infrastructure or wait for the future transportation market to develop. There are many technologies coming online to deliver green hydrogen, but these will take decades to develop, overcome tech limitations and deliver the global energy demand at scale. The crux of this transition is how to meet the global growing energy demand while technologies, infrastructure and regulations mature.
Torrent has the solution, as we leverage the largest, most developed supply of energy today, liquid and gas hydrocarbons, clean or dirty, new or recycled, and efficiently convert them to a green (or turquoise) supply of hydrogen fuel. Torrents’ technology is a proprietary plasma reactor and separation chamber, not a plasma torch. We are not burning the feedstock, we are breaking the bonds at the atomic level, then separating the elements, as pure H2 and Carbon Black are produced, with no hazardous by-products, no CO2 or Greenhouse Gas emissions, and applied carbon sequestration as a solid at no additional cost.
Torrent is preparing for commercialization and is looking to team with labs and individuals with skills in building equipment to the standards of: ASME, Hydrogen Equipment Certification Guide from the H2 Safety Panel, prepared by PNN Lab operated by Battelle for D.O.E., contract DC-AE05-76RL01830, Hydrogen equipment building guidelines 2011/2016 Edition of National Fire Protection Association 2 (Quincy, MA) (NFPA 2 Hydrogen Technologies Code), and since we will also have natural gas feedstock, then installation standards from NFPA 54 & ANSI Z-223 for Fuel Gas will be implemented (The Orange Book). |
| CA |
| | Pacific Science and Engineering Group | Mary Ngo | |
Small Business
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Cross-Cutting
| | Pacific Science & Engineering (PSE) exists to create science-driven human-machine interfaces that allow humans to safely and effectively operate high consequence and high complexity systems. |
| CA |
| | Ideal Energy | Eric Johnson | |
Small Business
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Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
| Technology Specific Partnerships – Renewable Hydrogen; PEM Electrolysis; H2 Fueling Stations; Solar + PEM Integration | Ideal Energy is a Veteran-Owned, Iowa-based solar energy company renowned for delivering innovative and advanced clean energy solutions to the Midwest and beyond. Founded in 2009, Ideal Energy is Iowa’s pioneering solar company.
Since its founding, Ideal Energy has been a trailblazer, with a long list of firsts in the Midwest solar industry. These include the first solar net-zero manufacturer in Iowa, the first commercial-scale solar + battery energy storage system in Iowa, the state’s first use of solar in conjunction with batteries for demand charge reduction, and numerous projects that were the largest in Iowa at the time.
These projects have earned Ideal Energy industry recognition and numerous awards, including:
• Solar Power World Top Solar Contractors list – 2022
• 1,000 Friends of Iowa Best Development Award – 2016 (twice), 2017, 2021 (twice)
• Iowa Environmental Council Business Innovation award – 2019
• Solar Builder Magazine Project of the Year Award – 2016
The Ideal Energy team offers industry-leading Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) services for scalable solar and energy storage projects, as well as realtime system performance monitoring, operations and maintenance (O&M) contracts, and the highest quality of construction and customer service available in the solar industry today.
Ideal Energy’s research and development (R&D) capabilities make the company a thought leader in the renewable energy industry, with innovations in solar design, battery energy storage, and renewable hydrogen techno-economic analyses, resource mapping, and value chain development.
Ideal Energy is currently providing technical assistance to the Mid-Continent Clean Hydrogen Hub (MCH2) and its private sector Teaming Partners in Iowa. In addition, Ideal Energy is developing renewable hydrogen-powered transportation projects in Iowa.
Ideal Energy has worked under DOE funding awards in the past, notably on a research project and white paper assessing the prospects of a renewable hydrogen economy in Iowa.
Ideal Energy is a verified Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). |
| IA |
| | Fortress Government Solutions, LLC | Tobias Whitney | |
Large Business
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Strategic Programs
| | Fortress offerings support the maturing of third-party risk management programs to enable more informed, risk-based decision making.
Fortress Platform provides a single platform able to ingest vendors and products associated with all assets and systems with compliance modules, security & compliance ratings, automated findings lifecycle management, and the ability to view critical supplier security information stored in our supplier central library. As a result, we simplify compliance and quickly scale your risk management program with instant access to security assessments for over 40,000 vendors.
Fortress provides technology assessment for regulatory-driven businesses to illuminate the vulnerabilities that come bundled within mission-critical systems, whether that is software or hardware. These assessments allow clients to understand the inherent product risk, vulnerability risk, patching risk, product security controls, and obsolescence risk prior to procurement. We do this through providing File Integrity Assurance and product governance.
Fortress is the only company that provides an operationalized, holistic solution to connect vendor, asset, and software data to secure critical infrastructure from cybersecurity and operational risk.
OUR APPROACH
We begin with visibility and end with security, leaving you confident in the integrity of the technology running your critical operations. Moreover, our approach aligns with the February 2021 Executive Order 14017, America’s Supply Chains, and can support supply chain security guidance related to agencies’ procurement practices.
Our approach focuses on:
Identification/Validation - Determine criticality and cyber maturity of suppliers to quickly prioritize assessments and focus in on actionable risk.
Detection - Leverage trained analysts and AI driven tools to obtain detailed vendor assessments to help identify threats, vulnerabilities, and other weaknesses that could impact critical systems.
Mitigation - Continuously monitor breaches, vulnerabilities, and other indicators of compromise.
Remediation - Leverage out-of-the-box/COTS procedures for resolving issues and validating evidence of remediation. |
| FL |
| | Progress LLP | Perry Goldberg | |
Small Business
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Office of Technology Transitions (OTT)
| | I'm an intellectual property attorney (Harvard Law '93) and entrepreneur (Wharton '90). I consider myself a professional problem-solver and have novel licensing structures that would be very useful for this Lab Call. I would be thrilled to collaborate as a sub-awardee with one of the Labs. |
| CA |
| | Climastry | Jake Stevens | |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| Sustainability-linked project financing with Manufacturer Carbon Credits | Climastry gets manufacturers paid for decarbonizing. We do this by commoditizing net-zero projects for listing on the voluntary carbon market (VCM). We invented the only statistically significant method of estimating emissions from manufacturing operations: piece-rate emissions factors, through funding from the UKRI. This allows SMMs to safely access sustainability-linked debt capital markets. Our pilot cohort companies are the first to exercise this market mechanism.
We recently discovered our role as an Entrepreneur Support Organization (ESO) when talking to partners looking to scale R&D innovations with manufacturing partners and not having a capacity to support a deployment.
The Climastry platform assesses and presents decarbonization and detoxification solution pathways to engineers which occasionally includes partners we've identified. There is a strong interest from the R&D community in these credits to fund deployment but supporting early stage entrepreneurs is much more nuanced than providing capital alone.
Capacities:
- Emissions Baselining
- Sustainability Management
- Project-level net-zero initiative mapping
- Piece-rate emissions factor manufacturing process assignment
- Emissions factor building
Developing:
- Process engineering AI
- Landscape architecture AI
Seeking:
- Entrepreneur ecosystem partners
- Sustainability partners - those looking to scale sustainable technology within manufacturers
- Economists/ securities experts
- Process/manufacturing engineers |
| IL |
| | Washington Maritime Blue | Cassidy Fisher | |
Non-Profit
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Cross-Cutting
| Ecosystem building & Facilitating Collaboration for the Blue-Green Economies | Washington Maritime Blue seeks to continue our work executing equity-focused, climate-targeted, Blue-Green Economic innovation and development which is supported by the strong decarbonization and climate management policies set by Washington State, Oregon, and local jurisdictions. Maritime Blue defines the Blue Economy as the maritime sector and shoreside activities related to ports, shipping, trade, the movement of goods, vessels, marine energy, and shoreside industry operated in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and profitable. As such, we define the combined Blue-Green Economies as the intersection of the Blue Economy and the Renewable (“Green”) Energy sectors. Maritime Blue will build on its existing, comprehensive project development process that advances new Blue-Green concepts and technologies through market identification, planning and tech development, joint innovation projects (JIPs), commercialization, and–ultimately–market advancement and supply chain scale-up, while building the critical workforce to support these economies as they mature. Through stakeholder convening and matchmaking, Maritime Blue facilitates cross-sector collaboration across the entire Blue-Green ecosystems, including in our membership of more than 130 organizations. The PNW is a nation-leading region in the maritime industry. This, combined with accessibility to low cost renewable energy, makes the PNW uniquely situated to further lead decarbonization of the maritime sector and heavy duty transportation, support sustainable ocean use and energy, and ensure equitable benefits and opportunity for coastal communities disproportionally impacted by climate change. Maritime Blue will continue to support this place-based work, engaging with local communities, industry, academia, and public agencies to accelerate the pathway to decarbonization. In this way, communities disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change are able to partner on projects and share in the benefits. |
| WA |
| | Accenture Federal Services | Bethy Flaherty | |
Large Business
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Office of Technology Transitions (OTT)
| Market Needs Assessment, Matchmaking, Steamlining Laboratory Processes, Increasing External Partnerships | Accenture LLP is a global professional and technology services company with 720,000 employees across 120+ countries. Accenture Federal Services LLC is a US-based subsidiary of Accenture LLP with 10,000 employees. We work with 60+ federal agency clients including the Department of Energy and multiple National Labs and Environmental Management Sites.
Accenture excels at delivering Federal IT modernization from need identification through implementation and beyond. Our capabilities include: market needs assessments, rapid prototyping to test and scale innovation, transforming network infrastructure, deploying commercial software products, and more.
We bring energy industry experience across both government and the private sector and are well positioned to help bridge gaps related to technology commercialization. We are eager to support and enable a Labs team by providing access to our thought leaders, cross-industry partners, and modernization frameworks.
Learn more about our offerings and organizational structure here: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/industries/afs-index |
| VA |
| | Activate Global, Inc | Karin Lion | |
Non-Profit
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Cross-Cutting
| | Founded in 2015, Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by launching startups to address climate change and other global challenges. Working between government, philanthropy, universities, and the private sector, Activate transforms scientists into high-impact entrepreneurs through the Activate Fellowship, a two-year immersive experience that provides funding and fosters the resources, knowledge, networks, investors, and partnerships that fellows need to succeed. Activate is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and does not charge any fee nor equity for fellows to participate. Activate’s entrepreneurial fellowship model originated at Cyclotron Road, a division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and founding Activate partner. Activate supports fellows in communities across the U.S.: Activate Berkeley, Activate Boston, Activate New York, and Activate Anywhere. Learn more at Activate.org.
We partner with research lab institutions, including national labs like LBNL, Brookhaven, and DOD's Lincoln Lab, to match Activate Fellows with lab facilities where they can continue to develop their technology while also building their company with our entrepreneurial support. We have a strong track record of supporting early-stage hard-tech entrepreneurs. Since 2015, we have supported 142 fellows nationwide to form 106 science-based companies that have generated over 300 patents, raised more than $1.1 billion in follow-on funding, and created more than 1,200 U.S. jobs. We are open to working with all national labs to support the commercialization of lab-funded research through the Activate Fellowship, particularly our Activate Anywhere program. |
| CA |
| | Embedded Planet, Inc. | Matt Hoover | |
Small Business
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SmartGrid
| Energy and System Monitoring | Embedded Planet, Inc. is a leading solution provider for customers who need to connect their products or applications. The epConnect family of products allows customers to implement an IoT solution while reducing risks in development and shortening the design cycle to get to production quickly. epConnect products include wireless epSensors, and epGateways. All products can be customized to fit specific application requirements which include software, hardware, mechanical and complete product design. epConnect products help customers quickly develop their solutions and integrate to Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
Embedded Planet has been working with Argonne Labs since 2013 on RAMM and a number of different monitoring solutions. See https://www.energy.gov/ceser/articles/ceser-partnership-results-successful-nuclear-monitoring-system-prototype |
| OH |
| | Berkeley Laboratory | Bin Wang | |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Cross-Cutting
| Medium and Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Infrastructure – Load Operations and Deployment Modeling Tool | HEVI-LOAD projects the number, type, and location of chargers, and the related electric grid supply requirements to support the new charging stations for MD/HD vehicles. Bin Wang, the head developer for HEVI-LOAD, is currently leading engagement with Western state utility stakeholders to expand the application of the HEVI-LOAD tool beyond its original application for the State of California. HEVI-LOAD can be applied to other states seeking to make large scale investments in electric vehicle charging infrastructure. |
| CA |
| | Basic Power, Inc. | Stephen Washington | |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| Power Quality & Energy Efficiency | Basic Power, Inc. is power quality service and solutions company conducting diagnostic PQ audits to identify issues in the utility supplied power and a facility's electrical load. We believe that by optimizing power quality we can maximize energy efficiency and protect investments in the application of energy conservation measures.
Our in-house electrical engineers work with utility grade meters to source PQ and energy consumption data in the field which is then emulated in our regenerative inductive/capacitive Load Center to allow for the customization of PQ solutions.
We are a Certified UL508A Panel Shop located in Baltimore, MD in a SBA HUBzone where we design and manufacture passive shunt filters, dynamic reactive power capacitor banks and surge protection devices. We also provide a custom manufacturing service for electrical products.
We are interested in SBIR/STTR opportunities for R&D and commercialization of PQ technologies that further our nation's electrification goals by mitigating harmonics from non-linear devices, inverter driven technologies, power electronics, LED lamp drivers and variable frequencies drives which are now abundant in all electrical systems to the detriment of the grid. We are interested in providing reactive power compensation at source to help reduce amperage and expand system capacity where large inductive loads are present or where reactive power is not supplied from solar inverters.
Though our professional experience has been in the industrial and commercial sector, we believe that the residential sector is now in need of PQ solutions to help improve grid capacity as we burden it with additional loads from EVSE and all electric homes and bi-directional power.
We are currently compiling a white paper on the Effects of Power Quality on the Fuel Consumption of Diesel Generators which will be published Q2 2023.
We have identified several prototypes of interest which are listed on National Research Lab websites and in addition are preparing our own submission for a SBIR Phase I grant.
We have not selected a research lab partner yet and would like to join this call to get a feel for the opportunity. |
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Renewable Energy Integration (REI)
| Long Duration Energy Storage | Introducing CES Liquid Air Energy Storage
• A near-term, off-the-shelf, scalable, cost-effective liquid air energy storage technology solution.
o Proprietary technology
Third-Party Validation (Siemens Energy )
o Repurposes legacy air separation technology with a proven track record in the industrial gas market space.
e.g. used to manufacture LNG from pipeline natural gas.
o High end-to-end (RTE) efficiency.
Greater than 86% (Aspen-Hysis Simulation Model)
Third-party validation
o Blue Chip Strategic Partners
Siemens
Air Products/Rotoflow
• Addresses priority needs for energy storage.
o Grid Stability
o Dispatchable Peaking Power free from Environmental Burdens
o Hedges risks of over-production or curtailment of renewables.
• Asset Optimization
o Increases MW hours of energy production for sale over existing power purchase agreements or in high-value day-ahead markets.
Supported by predictive analytics to maximize revenue and minimize risk.
o Can be used to recharge Lithium-Ion battery arrays co-located with CCGT power plants with carbon-free, fuel cost-free power.
o Can provide a fuel cost-free energy input for hydrogen production.
• Minimal installed technology footprint.
• Unique Teaming Opportunity (Siemens Energy, CES Energy Storage)
The Teaming Opportunity
Based on a non-binding expression of interest from an asset owner, Siemens Energy will invest the “sweat equity” necessary to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of a host project, or projects, pairing CES LAES technology with renewable generation, or with conventional CCGT base-load generation.
This effort will require close coordination with the project host, a national lab’s technical staff, and CES engineers. |
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