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The Award database is continually updated throughout the year. As a result, data for FY24 is not expected to be complete until March, 2025.

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  1. An Innovative Mass Spectrometer to Simplify Materials Characterization for Additive Manufacturing

    SBC: EXUM INSTRUMENTS, INC.            Topic: 2

    Exum Instruments’ Massbox is a single analytical instrument that offers rapid, high-sensitivity measurements of additive manufacturing (AM) feedstock powders and printed parts. Determining chemical composition for any manufactured material is critical to understanding and predicting a part’s performance. Current methods of chemical characterization are difficult and time-consuming, requiring m ...

    SBIR Phase II 2022 Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and Technology
  2. Multispectral Fluorescence Sensing of Airborne Proxy Infectious Particles in Actual Indoor Environments

    SBC: RATIOCINATIVE ENGINEERING SERVICES LLC            Topic: 2

    Filtering airborne infectious particles from indoor air is a critical element in controlling the spread of disease during COVID and future pandemics that are transmitted through the air. The aim of this proposed research from Ratiocinative Engineering Services, LLC is to develop a testbed that will lead to more accessible and robust quality control testing of air filtration and ventilation systems ...

    SBIR Phase I 2022 Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and Technology
  3. An Innovative Mass Spectrometer to Simplify Materials Characterization for Additive Manufacturing

    SBC: EXUM INSTRUMENTS, INC.            Topic: 2

    Characterizing the chemical components of additive manufacturing feedstock powders determines the final parts’ material properties and performance. Currently, feedstock chemical characterization involves multiple analytical techniques and industry standards. Although traditional spectrometry measures both the material’s major and residual constituents, it requires a highly trained analytical c ...

    SBIR Phase I 2021 Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and Technology
  4. Easy-to-use, Autonomous Bin-picking and Assembly Operations for the Manufacturing Industry

    SBC: Robotic Materials Inc.            Topic: 90

    We will develop a series of object manipulation primitives to pick up and assemble standard mechanical parts such as screws, gears and pulleys that can be configured without any programming skills. Building up on a smart robotic gripper, 3D perception and machine learning algorithms, we will design a graphical user interface that allows an user to label arbitrary 3D objects, identify assembly poin ...

    SBIR Phase II 2020 Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and Technology
  5. Easy-to-use, Autonomous Bin-picking and Assembly Operations for the Manufacturing Industry

    SBC: Robotic Materials Inc.            Topic: None

    We will develop a series of object manipulation primitives to pick up and assemble standard mechanical parts such as screws, gears and pulleys that can be configured without any programming skills. Building up on a smart robotic gripper, 3D perception and machine learning algorithms, we will design a graphical user interface for the Universal Robot E-Series that allows an user to label arbitrary 3 ...

    SBIR Phase I 2019 Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and Technology
  6. Compact Vapor Cell Technology for Rydberg‐Atom RF Metrology

    SBC: COLDQUANTA, INC.            Topic: NA

    ColdQuanta seeks to develop compact, stemless vapor cells designed specifically for high-accuracy RF electric field (E-field) metrology with Rydberg atoms. Sensors utilizing these vapor cells can take advantage of Rydberg atoms’ exceptional sensitivity to RF, microwave, and millimeter radiation between 1 and 1000 GHz. Featuring resolutions down to the uV/cm level, the accuracy of these devices w ...

    SBIR Phase II 2018 Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and Technology
  7. Developing Model-Based Tools for the Design and Improvement of Manufacturing Systems

    SBC: MBSE Tools, Inc.            Topic: NA

    The vision is to create enterprise-grade software tools supporting the design and improvement of manufacturing systems, tools that can provide answers to fundamental business questions about product selection, resource planning, scheduling, and logistical control – quickly, accurately, and with adequate consideration of risk. Objectives accomplished in Phase I included adding formality and rigor ...

    SBIR Phase II 2018 Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and Technology
  8. Rational Design of sub-100 nm Polystyrene Particles with a Low Coefficient of Variation in Size

    SBC: TETRAMER TECHNOLOGIES LLC            Topic: NA

    During this Phase II SBIR development program, Tetramer Technologies will develop highlymonodisperse 100-nm and sub-100-nm diameter nanoparticles for use as latex size standards. Highlymonodisperse nanoparticle latexes are needed for improved calibration of electron microscopes, lightscatteringparticle sizing instruments, atomic force microscopes, and particle counters/contamination monitors used ...

    SBIR Phase II 2018 Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and Technology
  9. Compact Vapor Cell Technology for Rydberg‐Atom RF Metrology

    SBC: COLDQUANTA, INC.            Topic: NA

    ColdQuanta seeks to develop compact vapor cells designed specifically for high-accuracy RF metrology with Rydberg atoms. Sensors utilizing these vapor cells can take advantage of Rydberg atoms’ exceptional sensitivity to RF, microwave, and millimeter radiation between 1 and 1000 GHz. Featuring resolutions down to the uV/cm level, the accuracy of these devices will be at least ten times better th ...

    SBIR Phase I 2017 Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and Technology
  10. A Model-Based Solution to Improve the Accessibility and Affordability of Manufacturing System Simulations

    SBC: MBSE Tools, Inc.            Topic: NA

    The vision is to provide decision-makers with effective, fast, and inexpensive analysis tools to answer "What-If" and "What-Should" questions about manufacturing systems. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a modeling methodology with widespread contemporary use in manufacturing, and our strategy is to start with VSM as a deployment beachhead for the eventual deployment of a more generic manufacturing s ...

    SBIR Phase I 2017 Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and Technology
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