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| | QuesTek Innovations LLC | Thomas Kozmel | Director of Applications & Development |
Small Business
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Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO)
| | Background:
QuesTek Innovations empowers innovators by resolving materials challenges using our Materials by Design® technologies and ICMD® materials design and engineering software platform. We have been pioneers and leaders in Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) for nearly 30 years and are uniquely capable of advancing innovation from modeling & simulation and design, to development, application, and deployment.
Capabilities:
Development of composition and process – microstructure – properties – performance relationships. Alloy simulation and design using predictive tools. In-house laboratory validation capabilities (e.g. lab scale arc melting, heat treatment, metallography, SEM/EDS). Proprietary ICMD® software used to accelerate materials qualification. Accelerating design cycles by up to 5x by reducing reliance on physical testing, and engineering higher material performance.
Interests:
Partnering (subcontracting) opportunities in the areas of:
Innovations In Manufacturing and Scale Up for Energy Applications. QuesTek has experience in materials simulation and design for advanced manufacturing, in consideration of available supply chain.
Advanced Technologies to Improve Turbine Reliability, Flexibility, and Efficiency. QuesTek has vast experience in materials engineering for additive manufacturing, and high performance materials for energy generating turbines.
OE and NE topics/focus areas as related to materials engineering and accelerated materials qualification (such as Reactor Concepts Research, Development and Demonstration (Reactor Concepts RD&D) (NE-RCRDD)). |
| IL |
| | My Favorite Artist Headphones Inc | Anthony Palmer | CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| Connected mobility, AI-enabled audio, advanced manufacturing, vehicle integration, and technology commercialization | My Favorite Artist Headphones Inc. (MFAH) is a small technology business developing connected consumer products, AI-enabled audio and voice systems, digital mobility platforms, and commercialization pathways for advanced technologies.
MFAH’s capabilities and interests include consumer audio technology, connected hardware and software, AI-assisted voice experiences, product design and development, electronics manufacturing, advanced materials and components, technology licensing, prototyping, testing, demonstration, market deployment, and public-private commercialization partnerships.
MFAH Navigator is the company’s connected navigation and mobility platform. Its development areas include AI-assisted navigation and driver services, commercial fleet and Truck Mode tools, EV- and charging-aware mobility services, emergency and roadside information, parking and local discovery, real-time road intelligence, digital cockpit and infotainment integration, and integration with connected and software-defined vehicles.
MFAH seeks collaboration with DOE National Laboratories and other qualified partners for technology assessment, licensing, co-development, validation, prototyping, testing, demonstration, advanced manufacturing, vehicle and mobility integration, and commercialization. Areas of particular interest include connected transportation, vehicle electronics, energy-efficient mobility, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, sensors, human-machine interfaces, audio and voice systems, manufacturing processes, and resilient mobility infrastructure.
MFAH can contribute product concepts, commercialization planning, consumer-market and mobility use cases, platform-integration pathways, brand development, deployment planning, and potential pathways for incorporating laboratory technologies into connected consumer products, MFAH Navigator, and future vehicle platforms. |
| WY |
| | GSR Solutions | Dr. Anju Krivov | President |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| | GSR Solutions develops and commercializes innovative technologies that advance sustainable resource utilization, circular economy solutions, and value-added products from underutilized resources. The company has experience advancing emerging technologies from concept development through feasibility assessment, bench-scale and pre-pilot validation, pilot-scale testing, demonstration-scale implementation, commercialization planning, and market adoption.
GSR brings expertise in technology evaluation, feasibility studies, process integration, pilot and demonstration projects, technology validation, regulatory considerations, product development, techno-economic analysis (TEA), lifecycle assessment (LCA), and commercialization of sustainable technologies. The company works across resource recovery, agriculture, bioenergy, industrial innovation, environmental technologies, and sustainable manufacturing applications.
GSR operates and develops farm-based resource transformation platforms integrating anaerobic digestion, nutrient recovery, advanced processing, and circular economy approaches to convert agricultural waste streams into commercial products. GSR has experience connecting emerging technologies with customer needs, product requirements, regulatory pathways, market assessment, and commercialization strategies.
GSR is interested in collaborating with DOE National Laboratories, industry partners, and technology developers on projects involving alternative fuels and feedstocks, bioenergy, anaerobic digestion, biogas and renewable gas systems, biofuels, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), renewable chemicals, nutrient recovery, water and wastewater resource recovery, sustainable fertilizers, soil amendments, waste-to-value technologies, and circular economy applications.
Potential areas of collaboration include technology commercialization, technology evaluation, feasibility assessment, bench-scale and pre-pilot studies, pilot and demonstration projects, process optimization, system integration, field validation, TEA, LCA, market assessment, and deployment of innovative technologies.
GSR can contribute industry perspectives, commercial deployment experience, agricultural and industrial demonstration opportunities, access to real-world feedstocks, process integration expertise, market insights, and commercialization strategies to multidisciplinary teams advancing laboratory-developed technologies toward practical applications. |
| VT |
| | IsAdvice & Consulting LLC | Pamela Isom | Chief Executive Officer |
Small Business
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Analysis and Strategic Programs
| CMEI AOI #2 – State-of-the-Art Technologies for Industrial Competitiveness (Industrial AI; Data Centers and Other Large Loads) | sAdvice & Consulting LLC is a technology and applied R&D company that helps organizations mature, secure, integrate, operationalize, and transition emerging technologies into government and industry environments. We bring expertise in decision intelligence and AI, federated data architectures, cybersecurity and adversarial testing, human-centered design, systems integration, and technology implementation.
We were awarded and successfully delivered a U.S. Department of Energy SBIR Phase I R&D project focused on an AI-powered microgrid database for quality decision-making and accelerated adoption. As prime and Principal Investigator, we led a multidisciplinary team in partnership with a DOE National Laboratory research partner. The work incorporated federated data architecture, contextual analysis, AI-enabled decision support, integrated security, and testing and evaluation.
Our experience extends beyond research and proof-of-concept development into technology evaluation, product and infrastructure operationalization, government integration, production implementation, cybersecurity and assurance, human-centered design, and operational readiness. We can complement National Laboratory scientific and engineering teams by helping address the data analysis, integration, adaptive governance, and implementation considerations necessary to move lab-developed technologies toward real-world deployment and adoption.
We are interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories on technologies where our capabilities can help increase adoption readiness and support transition into government and industry use, particularly in Industrial AI, energy systems and grid integration, OT/ICS cybersecurity, distributed energy and microgrids, and complex data and decision-support environments. |
| GA |
| | CarbonCycle LLC | Brant Cheetham | Co-Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation | CarbonCycle LLC is a Waste-to-Value company that has developed a system to capture the trapped value in scrap tires by converting them into valuable and usable products and energy via our proprietary Advanced Pyrolysis technology. Our system takes whole tires (not chipped or shredded) and through a closed loop solution, creates valuable carbon (rCB recovered carbon black), pyrolysis oil derived products, recycled steel, syngas, and electricity.
We have a large scale pilot facility in Missouri, from which we are working on commercialization of the technology. Of particular interest is refinement of, and value-added products from, our system offtakes—most notably our recovered carbon black product and our pyrolysis oil products.
The technology has been developed with assistance from the US Air Force through the SBIR program, and the USDA Climate-Smart Commodities program, among several other funding sources. |
| MO |
| | Everstar, Inc. | Kevin Kong | CEO and CTO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| NE AOI 1 and AOI 4; CMEI AOI 7. AI engineering and industrial process reasoning, robotic welding, advanced manufacturing, digital qualification | Everstar builds Gordian, an engineering reasoning platform grounded in physics and built for long-horizon reasoning across regulated engineering work. Gordian reads drawings, standards, calculations, and technical packages and returns structured, cited, audit-ready output. It is in production use with U.S. nuclear operators and reactor developers on licensing, procedure, and qualification work, and Everstar is a DOE Genesis Mission partner.
Validated results: on 65 electrical drawings from an operating nuclear plant, many hand-drawn and decades old, Gordian extracted 492 components at 96.7% detection and 100% classification accuracy. In a DOE demonstration with Idaho National Laboratory, Argonne, and Microsoft, it produced a 208-page document equivalent to sections of an NRC license application in one day, against a four-to-six-week baseline for a team of experts.
Everstar is building autonomous welding for large, high-variability nuclear structures on the Gordian platform, designed to link weld planning, execution, inspection, and compliance documentation in one digital thread. Demonstrated on hardware: CAD to executable robot weld paths, computer vision registration of CAD to the physical part, and continuous and fillet welds on plate representative of nuclear module geometry. Demonstrated in simulation: closed-loop weld monitoring and draft quality documentation from process data. Everstar has proposed the platform for technical data and parts qualification in the defense industrial base through Army xTech Search 10 and the DoW Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, and is in discussions with U.S. and Korean shipbuilders on applying it to shipbuilding standards.
Interest: Everstar seeks to serve as commercialization and cost-share partner for National Lab-developed technologies in:
- NE AOI 4 (NEET): advanced manufacturing, robotics and automation, in-process monitoring, NDE, digital twins and AI for manufacturing, NEAMS tool adoption, machine-readable nuclear data
- NE AOI 1 (Reactor Concepts): AI to accelerate design, licensing, manufacturing, construction, and operation; reactor digitization
- CMEI AOI 7: welding scale-up, smart manufacturing, digital qualification evidence
Everstar brings a deployed commercial channel to utilities and reactor developers, regulatory expertise from former NRC leadership, and in-kind engineering and software integration. |
| NY |
| | Versa Materials Technology | Thomas Kodenkandath | Chief Science Officer |
Small Business
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Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO)
| | Versa Materials Technology is an Austin, Texas small business commercializing a patent-pending, single-step spray pyrolysis process for manufacturing lithium-ion cathode active materials (CAM). The process converts metal-salt solutions directly to cathode powder, eliminating the co-precipitation, filtration, washing, and drying steps of conventional CAM production, drastically reducing the CAPEX and OPEX associated CAM production.. Current programs focus on lithium- and manganese-rich (LMR) and other layered-oxide cathodes that reduce nickel and cobalt demand.
Versa's team pairs cathode R&D and pilot-scale process experience with commercial plant engineering. Chief Science Officer Dr. Thomas Kodenkandath has three decades of lab-to-product commercialization across superconductor, thin-film solar, and lithium-ion cathode technologies, including senior R&D roles at Redwood Materials and Sila Nanotechnologies. At Hazen Research he was Principal Investigator on multiple DOE programs and led the development and commissioning of a pilot-scale continuous spray pyrolysis reactor for cathode production. He is a named inventor on 15+ patents with 75+ publications. CEO Carson Rast, a chemical engineer, was a lead engineer on Tesla's Texas lithium refinery and cathode plant.
Versa is interested in serving as the industry commercialization partner for National Laboratory-developed cathode technologies under the Innovations in Manufacturing and Scale-up for Energy Applications and Battery Technologies for Dual-Use Applications topics. Areas of interest include LMR and other manganese-rich compositions, dopant and surface-coating chemistries, particle morphology and tap density engineering, aerosol and spray synthesis methods, reactor and particle-formation modeling, and low-cost precursor routes from refined or recycled metal feedstocks.
Versa can contribute a scalable, continuous metal-oxide manufacturing route for lab-developed materials; bench-scale spray pyrolysis, synthesis, calcination, and electrochemical testing capability; pilot reactor design experience; process engineering and techno-economic analysis; engagements with cell makers and recyclers for product qualification; and a direct path to commercial production. As a small business, Versa also enables the reduced (<50%) cost-share pathway. |
| TX |
| | NGL Energy Partners | Ryan Hall | Director of Technical Operations |
Large Business
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Integrated Energy Systems
| Cutting-Edge Energy Generation and Power Management Technologies | NGL is the Nation's leading produced water midstream with over 3.6MM BBL/s per day under management. NGL is willing to partner on projects seeking to desalinate produced water and recover critical minerals from the concentrate stream. NGL has over 85 facilities in the Permian basin with over 120 CLass II UIC wells and 800+ miles of large diameter common carrier produced water pipelines. We also are the front of the line to receive a Texas TCEQ discharge permit for treated produced water into Salt Creek, a tributary of the Pecos river. |
| CO |
| | UC Merced | Abel Chuang | Professor |
Academic
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Industrial Technologies
| | Abel and his research team at UC Merced have more than 20 years of experience in PEM fuel cells, electrochemical energy systems, porous materials, MEA development, and advanced electrode manufacturing, including prior industrial fuel-cell R&D experience. The team combines fundamental materials research with device-level testing and technology development. We are interested in partnering with National Laboratories to advance laboratory-developed fuel-cell technologies toward commercial deployment.
Areas of interest include improving PEMFC performance and durability, reducing materials and manufacturing costs, developing scalable catalyst-layer and MEA fabrication processes, and understanding how ink formulation and processing affect electrode structure and device performance. The team is particularly interested in stationary and backup power applications, including high-power applications such as data centers.
Our capabilities include catalyst and ionomer ink formulation and rheological characterization, catalyst-layer and MEA fabrication, porous transport material characterization, PEMFC performance and durability testing, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and distribution-of-relaxation-time analysis, and water and thermal management. Our team integrates materials characterization, rheology, electrochemical diagnostics, single-cell testing, and modeling to connect material properties and manufacturing conditions with device performance and durability. Expertise also includes scalable electrode coating and processing, with emphasis on reproducibility, manufacturability, and translation from laboratory-scale development toward commercially relevant production. |
| CA |
| | Field Viewers Inc. | Sachin Junnarkar | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Office of Nuclear Energy | Field Viewers Inc. (Austin, TX; SAM UEI FFLGE4DJKP93, CAGE 756Y2) is a U.S. small business developing radiation detectors and imaging systems. Our core technology is hybrid-pixel detector readout: high channel-density, low-noise ASICs (HPL ASIC family) bonded to CdZnTe (CZT) and other sensors, integrated with PCB/hybrid carriers and embedded edge-AI processing (NVIDIA Jetson) for real-time spectroscopy, imaging and isotope identification.
Interest: We are seeking to partner with DOE National Laboratories to mature and commercialize lab-developed radiation sensing, detector readout and instrumentation technologies. We are especially interested in Office of Nuclear Energy AOI 4 (NE-NEET: advanced and radiation-hardened sensors and instrumentation, monitoring systems, and domestic supply chain for sensors and instrumentation), and in related AOIs on material control and accounting, nondestructive evaluation, and used-fuel/waste monitoring.
Capabilities we bring: mixed-signal ASIC design and test; detector module integration and packaging; embedded firmware and edge-AI software; prototype and low-rate production; market knowledge and customer access in nuclear power, security, medical and industrial imaging; and commercialization leadership. As a small business we can serve as the commercialization partner and are open to discussing cost-share. |
| TX |
| | Guyana Infrastructure Consortium LLC | Kwasi A. Fraser | Founder & Chairman |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Critical Minerals and Materials Commercialization | Guyana Infrastructure Consortium LLC (GIC) is a U.S.-based infrastructure and project-development company advancing commercialization opportunities in critical minerals, industrial energy, and mineral processing. GIC is developing U.S.–Guyana projects involving bauxite and alumina value chains, refractory-grade bauxite processing and calcination, recovery of critical minerals and valuable materials from legacy bauxite residue, high-temperature industrial process heat, and resilient energy infrastructure.
GIC is interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories to validate, demonstrate, scale, and commercialize U.S. technologies applicable to critical-mineral extraction and recovery, beneficiation, bauxite-residue valorization, advanced mineral processing, high-temperature calcination/process heat, energy efficiency, and industrial energy systems.
GIC can provide potential commercial deployment environments, project-development capabilities, industrial and government stakeholder coordination, infrastructure integration, and pathways connecting laboratory technologies with private capital and U.S. critical-mineral supply chains. Current areas of interest include commercialization pathways for technologies applicable to Guyana’s bauxite resources and approximately 25 million tonnes of legacy bauxite residue, as well as energy technologies capable of supporting mineral processing and value-added manufacturing.
GIC seeks National Laboratory partners with technologies approaching commercial readiness that could be validated against real-world industrial applications and advanced toward demonstration and deployment. |
| VA |
| | Hubert G. Walter/PIE | Hubert Glen Walter | PIE Concept Developer and Sole Proprietor |
Small Business
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Integrated Energy Systems
| Topic 1 - CMEI; Topic 3- HGEO: coal/power byproduct recovery | Hubert G. Walter is the developer of PIE, a privately developed integrated commercialization and deployment framework for adapting operating, retired, partially retired, vacant, or demolished power-plant and industrial sites into phased energy-centered industrial parks.
Walter brings more than four decades of experience in railroad engineering support, rehabilitation, industrial development, real estate, rights-of-way, infrastructure, water rights, logistics, and project coordination. His experience includes work involving Southern Pacific, St. Louis Southwestern, BNSF, DART, TXDOT, El Paso Water Utilities, and major industrial and transportation corridors.
PIE is intended to provide DOE National Laboratories and commercialization partners with potential real-world settings for integrating, demonstrating, scaling, and commercializing laboratory-developed technologies. It seeks to obtain additional useful work from existing steam, heat, electricity, water systems, transportation access, buildings, land, and industrial infrastructure before requiring entirely new generation, transmission, extraction, construction, or disposal capacity.
Potential applications include advanced manufacturing; direct industrial use of power-plant energy; recycling and material conversion; recovery of useful materials from coal ash, industrial residuals, wastewater, and other feedstocks; alternative fuels; water recovery and reuse; critical-mineral recovery; building and infrastructure products; grid-supporting industrial loads; and rail- or barge-supported material movement.
PIE can contribute integrated site and operating concepts, phased demonstration planning, prospective site identification, industrial and transportation coordination, and commercialization pathways. PIE is seeking National Laboratory partners with qualifying laboratory-developed technologies that could be demonstrated, combined, scaled, or commercialized through phased industrial-site deployment.
Proprietary engineering details and patent-pending elements are excluded from this public description and may be discussed with appropriate partners under suitable confidentiality arrangements. |
| AR |
| | Alma Energy | Hermann Lebit | Principal |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| critical minerals | Alma Energy has a credible path to commercial Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) from Produced Water in the domestic oil patch. We have captured a lithium reservoir and assessing direct lithium extraction technologies for a future pilot project with the aim to demonstrated commerciality. The produced water disposal stream has an average lithium concentration of 135-185 mg/l Li+ with individual wells exceeding 200 mg/l Li+.
The site has a water disposal capacity of >20,000 barrels of water per day. |
| TX |
| | Aum_PS LLC | Jitendra Kumar | Founder & Distinguished Scientist |
Small Business
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Integrated Energy Systems
| Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation / Advanced Energy Storage Systems & Battery Safety | Aum_PS LLC is an advanced R&D and technology commercialization small business backed by over 20 years of specialized technical expertise in next-generation electrochemical energy storage, comprehensive battery safety and abuse-tolerance testing, advanced thermal management, thermal interface materials (TIMs), and manufacturing integration. Founded by a principal investigator with extensive R&D experience executing high-reliability projects for NASA, the FAA, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, ARPA-E, and State of Ohio (OFRN) funding programs, Aum_PS LLC bridges the gap between fundamental laboratory research and scalable, field-deployable commercial solutions.
Core Capabilities & Expertise:
Comprehensive Battery Safety & Abuse Testing: Rigorous safety (thermal, electrical, mechanical, high-G) validation, thermal runaway mitigation, thermal runaway (TR) gas quantification and absorption, abuse-tolerance testing, and failure analysis for high-stress applications.
Advanced Thermal Management & TIMs: Expertise in advanced thermal interface materials (TIMs), heat dissipation strategies, and thermal control architectures that seamlessly scale to high-power energy systems and ruggedized sensors.
Advanced & Solid-State Systems: Deep technical background in solid-state battery architectures, novel cell chemistries, and performance optimization.
Advanced Manufacturing Integration: Expertise in scaling up manufacturing processes, quality control implementation, and transitioning complex electrochemical hardware from benchtop to production.
Partnering Objectives:
Aum_PS LLC is actively seeking to partner with DOE National Laboratories, NASA, the FAA, DoD agencies, and State of Ohio (OFRN) research networks on advanced energy storage, thermal management, and high-power sensor initiatives. Building on a proven track record across defense, aerospace, and federal programs, we provide critical private-sector commercialization support, independent safety validation, abuse testing, and manufacturing scale-up expertise to help research teams successfully translate advanced energy storage technologies into robust, market-ready products. |
| OH |
| | University of Connecticut | Jasna Jankovic | Professor |
Academic
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Analysis and Strategic Programs
| Advanced characterization | We are a university lab that conducts advanced materials characterization (microscopy and spectroscopy) supported by AI. We work with industry and national labs and support their material and process development, optimization, and understanding. We have access to the world leading characterization equipment at the university. |
| CT |
| | Forest Concepts | David Lanning | Vice President |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| | Forest Concepts is a biomass supply chain technology and systems company with more than twenty-five years of experience in the forest, urban, and agricultural biomass feedstock arena. We work throughout the supply chain from sources to the throat of reactors or industrial manufacturing processes. Our engineers actively engage with academic and research communities as well as technical societies.
Our small company is based in HUB zone in Auburn, Washington – just south of Seattle. We provide products and services globally.
Our capabilities are delivered by three overlapping teams. FC Analytics develops biomass characterization methods, laboratory equipment, and mathematical simulations/models that inform design and operation of biomass processing facilities. The FC Biomaterials biomass processing and production unit processes FC or client-supplied raw biomass of all types (woody, herbaceous, other) through our custom milling, screening, and drying equipment systems to produce reactor/conversion-ready industrial and renewable energy feedstocks. The Forest Concepts systems development and professional services team conducts contract research and provides advisory/planning services spanning biomass supply chains from source to reactor and beyond. A key benefit to clients is that we live in both the development and commercial space. Our experienced development team has earned 31 patents across these technology areas.
Our approximately ten full-time team members leverage the expertise of a broad network of universities, labs, and others. More recently, in partnership with a cadre of third-party vendors we have ramped-up equipment manufacturing and fully integrated plug-and-play multi-brand pre-processing systems at pilot through commercial scale.
FC Analytics: Feedstock characterization to deliver engineering data, operational functional characteristics, and other physical/mechanical properties data.
FC Biomass Processing: Our processing facility features its patented Crumbler® size reduction technology, orbital screening and an advanced moving bed dryer, amongst other standard processing equipment. The system can produce a variety of sizes of uniform, flowable particles down to 1mm from high moisture biomass without drying or before drying.
FC Systems Development: We developed an innovative Simulation of Processing Systems for Techno-Economic Analysis (SiPS TEA) software to rapidly analyze multiple processing facility permutations. |
| WA |
| | HOPLIT INC | Matthew Paul Palombia Sr. | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| | HOPLIT INC is a Pennsylvania-based technology company developing illuminated network devices that integrate wireless networking capabilities directly into independently functional lighting products. HOPLIT's objective is to transform commonly deployed lighting infrastructure into distributed points of wireless connectivity while preserving the primary illumination function of each device.
The HOPLIT platform is being developed across indoor and outdoor form factors, including table lamps, ceiling-mounted fixtures, wall sconces, landscape lighting, and street-light applications. The architecture is intended to support wireless access-point functionality, distributed and mesh networking, MIMO antenna configurations, local network management, and coordinated deployment of multiple nodes. Outdoor concepts may incorporate solar charging, battery power, and configurations suitable for locations where conventional communications infrastructure is difficult, costly, or impractical to deploy.
HOPLIT is particularly interested in collaboration involving distributed and resilient communications infrastructure, energy and power integration, wireless performance, autonomous systems, sensors and edge devices, emergency and temporary deployments, smart infrastructure, and technologies that could benefit from networking capabilities embedded within widely distributed physical infrastructure.
HOPLIT is seeking opportunities to collaborate with DOE National Laboratories where laboratory-developed technologies, technical expertise, testing capabilities, or intellectual property could complement HOPLIT's platform and accelerate technical validation and commercialization. Potential collaboration areas include RF and antenna performance, mesh-network resilience, cybersecurity, power and thermal management, environmental durability, energy-efficient operation, integration with sensors and autonomous systems, and deployment in resilient energy or communications environments.
HOPLIT can contribute its illumination-integrated wireless infrastructure concept, product architecture, intellectual-property development, commercialization strategy, and potential pathway for incorporating complementary National Laboratory technologies into future commercial products and deployments. |
| PA |
| | BlueFusion Inc. | Ramesh Annavajjala | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Transportation Technologies
| Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response | BlueFusion Inc. is a Massachusetts-based deep-tech startup developing advanced multimodal sensing and edge-AI solutions for critical infrastructure, defense, transportation, and public safety. Our capabilities include RGB/NIR, thermal, event-based imaging, imaging radar, acoustic, inertial, and navigation sensing integrated with FPGA/GPU-based real-time processing, sensor fusion, and AI/ML.
BlueFusion is interested in collaborating with DOE National Laboratories to advance technologies for critical energy infrastructure protection and resilience. We are particularly interested in persistent situational awareness, multimodal threat and anomaly detection, cyber-physical security, and edge AI for monitoring substations, generation facilities, energy storage, transmission/distribution assets, pipelines, and other critical infrastructure.
BlueFusion can provide deployable sensing and edge-computing platforms for integrating laboratory-developed technologies and supporting prototype development, field demonstrations, data collection, verification and validation, and commercialization. Our objective is to combine DOE laboratory innovation with BlueFusion’s sensing, edge AI, and system-integration capabilities to transition technologies into scalable solutions for protecting U.S. critical energy infrastructure. |
| MA |
| | Reality2 | Farida Fotouhi | President |
Small Business
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Analysis and Strategic Programs
| Marketing, web development, messaging strategy, sales support | Reality2 speeds the path to successful commercialization for SBIR awardees, applying TABA funding to maximize impact of messaging strategy and marketing assets from web development, to sales support materials and advertising.
We have worked with recipients of DOE TABA funding for many years, from alternative energy to particle accelerators. We "translate" complex technologies into business value that resonates with target audiences including C-suite decision makers. We integrate AI to develop powerful and impactful tools that drive results.
Tech innovators rely on our 30 years of specialized expertise which they do not have in-house; going "outside" to utilize an experienced, expert resource like ours has many advantages over creating messaging, websites and other marketing assets internally. |
| CA |
| | Project Maldonado | John Noel | Founder and Lead Engineer |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Commercialization of DOE Laboratory Advanced Materials and Technologies for Energy and Critical Infrastructure Applications | Project Maldonado is an engineering technology company focused on translating advanced and federally developed technologies into commercial products for energy, infrastructure, and industrial applications. Our capabilities include engineering design, systems engineering, application development, modeling, prototyping, testing planning, technology maturation, and commercialization strategy.
We are particularly interested in partnering with Sandia National Laboratories and other DOE National Laboratories on technologies involving interlocking metamaterials and metasurfaces, architected materials, advanced manufacturing, vibration mitigation, impact and energy management, structural protection, and infrastructure reliability.
Current development efforts are exploring applications in electric utility infrastructure protection, vibration and seismic protection, modular and rapidly deployable structures, water and filtration systems, data center infrastructure, renewable energy systems, and other critical infrastructure applications. These efforts include development of application specific engineering concepts and planned prototype development and validation.
Project Maldonado is interested in serving as an industry and commercialization partner for TCF CLIMR projects. We are interested in collaborating with National Laboratory researchers on technology maturation, application specific engineering, prototype development, testing and validation, market assessment, demonstration planning, and pathways toward commercial deployment.
We are also interested in identifying additional DOE developed technologies that complement our current engineering portfolio and could be transitioned into commercially viable products through laboratory, university, industry, and small business collaboration. |
| NM |
| | MantleIQ | RJ McIntosh | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| AI/ML Subsurface Energy Discovery Intelligence | AI/ML Subsurface Energy Discovery Intelligence; multimodal geological/geophysical data integration; geological knowledge graphs and semantic interoperability; probabilistic prospectivity and uncertainty quantification; geothermal, geologic hydrogen and subsurface resource characterization.” |
| WA |
| | Southwest Research Institute | Nadia Dinyarian | Engineer |
Non-Profit
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| Topic 1: Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation; Topic 2: Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response; Topic 3: Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office | Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is an independent non-profit research institute focusing on applied R&D. Founded in 1947, SwRI's 3,200 staff members perform science and engineering research for commercial clients and partners across many industries on a 1,500-acre facility with over 300 laboratories and office buildings. SwRI offers multidisciplinary contract R&D services in a variety of areas in engineering and the physical sciences, leveraging this diverse expertise to push the boundaries of science and technology. SwRI’s Chemical Engineering and High Reliability Systems Departments offer complementary capabilities to support the development, scale-up, and secure deployment of emerging technologies.
The Chemical Engineering Department has extensive experience developing and scaling chemical processes and advanced energy systems. Our work spans critical minerals, unconventional resources, bioenergy, power-sector applications, and alternative fuels and feedstocks. This includes bioenergy and biomass-derived intermediates, unconventional and waste-derived feedstocks, and conversion pathways such as gasification and other thermochemical processes. As a technology agnostic organization, we provide comprehensive support in process simulation, technology development, techno-economic assessment, and pilot-scale process design and operation.
The High Reliability Systems Department has extensive experience in offensive and defensive embedded cybersecurity, as well as cybersecurity assessments. Our team comprises technical experts with Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certifications and more than 15 years of experience securing systems and networks against cyber-attacks. Our experience spans penetration testing, intrusion detection systems (IDS), design and implementation of secure software over the air (SOTA) and firmware over the air (FOTA) update ecosystems, OT/ICS cybersecurity assessment and research, AI-driven and grid-level cyber-attack modeling, key and certificate management solutions, secure boot, zero-trust architectures, post-quantum cryptography, and reverse engineering.
SwRI is interested in participating as a partner to support the advancement of lab-developed technologies through process scale-up, pilot-scale demonstration, and commercial deployment, and/or to protect and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical OT/ICS systems. |
| TX |
| | Mr Hemp House, LLC | Christopher L Penn | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Buildings
| Healthy Building Materials, Industrialized Housing, Building Science & Commercialization | Mr Hemp House® is a veteran-founded U.S. small business building America’s Healthy Home Platform™ through healthy building systems, bio-based materials, industrialized construction, building-performance assessment, and commercialization.
Our ecosystem includes Mr Hemp House®, Healthy Home Assessment, HomeHealthScan™ / Home Health Score™, Gaia™ Building Systems, and emerging factory-produced and rapidly deployable healthy-housing systems.
We are interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories on applied research, field validation, product development, advanced and bio-based materials, building-envelope performance, industrialized construction, manufacturing optimization, digital modeling, AI-enabled building assessment, prototype demonstration, and commercialization.
Gaia™ Building Systems focuses on healthy and bio-based building materials and assemblies, including hemp-lime and related material formats for walls, panels, blocks, and other building applications. We are interested in material-performance testing, moisture and thermal behavior, durability, manufacturing methods, constructability, cost reduction, scale-up, and commercialization pathways.
HomeHealthScan™ / Home Health Score™ provides a digital framework for evaluating residential health and performance factors including indoor air, ventilation, moisture and mold risk, water, materials, household products, and building performance. We are interested in partnerships involving field validation, sensors, analytics, AI, building-performance data, and decision-support tools.
We can contribute as an industry commercialization partner, prototype and demonstration partner, field-validation partner, building-market channel, healthy-materials integrator, software/data collaborator, and pathway to builders, contractors, homeowners, developers, and other end users. |
| FL |
| | HybriMet LLC | Joe Hensel | CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| | Core Competency: Ultra-high temperature, corrosion-resistant and wear-resistant Metal Matrix Ceramic Composites (MMCs) for extreme molten salt environments.
1. Technology Overview & Capability
HybriMet LLC designs and manufactures proprietary Metal Matrix Ceramic Composites (MMCs) engineered specifically for hard wear surfaces, rotating machinery, bearing assemblies and tank linings operating in extreme environments. Our structural composites are engineered to maintain mechanical integrity, extreme hardness, and dimensional stability at continuous operating temperatures up to 750°C.
2. Technical Specifications & Validated Data
Unlike theoretical material concepts, HybriMet’s composite materials have been empirically validated in active, extreme conditions. We possess existing static corrosion and wear data demonstrating exceptional survivability and low degradation rates in both:
• Chloride Salt Environments (Critical for next-generation Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and industrial thermal processing and storage systems).
• Fluoride Salt Environments (Critical for Gen IV Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) and nuclear fuel manufacturing and recycling loops).
3. Target Component Applications
Our material formulation directly solves the most frequent mechanical failure points in high-temperature liquid metal and salt loops, including:
• High-temperature journal bearings
• Pump foot bearings, shaft wear sleeves and guide bearings
• Dynamic valve seats, seals for flow control applications
• Salt storage tank linings
4. Partnering Objectives
HybriMet LLC is actively seeking to join consortiums or prime proposals for current ARPA-E and DOE Office of Nuclear Energy / Solar Energy Technologies Office / Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation solicitations. We are equipped and flexible to participate as either:
• Subcontractor / Sub-tier Vendor: Providing custom-machined MMC components, bearings, or custom wear-coatings tailored to a prime contractor’s primary system design.
• Joint-Venturer / Co-Prime: Collaborating with national laboratories or system integrators to scale dynamic component testing from benchtop to operational pilot loops. |
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| | TechScale Solutions, LLC | George Roberts | Founder / President |
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Analysis and Strategic Programs
| Topic 1 – Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) | TechScale Solutions is an engineering and commercialization consulting firm that helps move advanced energy technologies from laboratory development toward manufacturable, field-deployable products and systems. The firm specializes in the stage where technical feasibility has been demonstrated but significant work remains to reduce risk, define system requirements, scale hardware, develop supply chains, establish manufacturing approaches, validate economics, and prepare for commercial deployment. Capabilities include systems engineering, technology readiness and risk assessment, prototype and pilot-scale design, balance-of-plant integration, design-for-manufacture, vendor and supply-chain development, techno-economic analysis, test planning, commercialization strategy, and technical program management.
TechScale is interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories on TCF/CLIMR projects where an experienced small-business industry partner can help translate laboratory-developed technology into a commercially relevant product, process, or demonstration. The strongest alignment is with CMEI technology areas involving manufacturing and scale-up for energy applications, industrial competitiveness, critical-mineral processing and recycling, energy generation and power management, advanced transportation and fuels, and battery technologies. TechScale also has relevant experience in hydrogen and fuel-cell systems, electrolyzers, energy storage, flow batteries, carbon capture and conversion, advanced materials, recycling, microgrids, and complex electromechanical systems.
TechScale can contribute an independent industry perspective focused on practical deployment: defining customer and product requirements, identifying scale-up and integration risks, developing commercialization and manufacturing roadmaps, evaluating cost and market drivers, engaging suppliers and potential partners, and supporting prototype, pilot, or field demonstration activities. The objective is to help National Lab teams close the engineering and commercialization gaps between successful laboratory technology and a product that industry can manufacture, finance, deploy, and support. |
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