Federal Labs Bring Home Numerous R&D 100 Awards

Federal Labs Bring Home Numerous R&D 100 Awards

August 25, 2022

The FLC is excited to congratulate federal laboratories that received honors from the 2022 R&D 100 Awards. This worldwide competition recognizes new commercial products, technologies and materials for their significant innovations.

The R&D 100 Awards include six categories and four special recognition categories. Innovations can be entered into both regular and special recognition categories.

The federal lab wins included collaborations between laboratories, agencies, and/or with industry, academic and nonprofit partners.

Analytical/Test category

Spectral Phenotyping with MirroRx - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

IT/Electrical category

Additively Manufactured Tamper Evident Container - Los Alamos National Laboratory

Hydra I/O: A system for highly resilient inter-chip communications - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

K-Modules: Capacitive Energy Modules for Pulsed Power Applications - Los Alamos National Laboratory

LightSlingers: Antennas that generate radio waves from faster-than-light currents - Los Alamos National Laboratory

SOFIA: Spectrometer Optimized for Facility Integrated Applications - Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), University of Colorado – Boulder

Mechanical/Materials category

Embedded Microjet Cooling for High-Power Electronics - MIT Lincoln Laboratory

ASSESS: Acoustic Steady-State Excitation Spatial Spectroscopy - Los Alamos National Laboratory

BioManIAC: Bioplastics Manufacturing with Intelligent Adaptive Control - Los Alamos National Laboratory

DuAlumin-3D: An Additively Manufactured Dual-Strengthened Aluminum Alloy Designed for Extreme Creep and Fatigue Resistance - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, General Motors, Beehive3D

Multifunctional, 3D-Printable Inks for Energy Products (Energy Inks) - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, MilliporeSigma, a division of Merck KGaA

PGM-free OER Catalyst as Replacement of Iridium for PEM Water Electrolyzer - Argonne National Laboratory

Quick-Release™ Binder for Recyclable Batteries - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
OnTo Technology

Solar Fuel Generator Including a Catalytic Mesh - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Stable and High-Performing Single-Crystal LiNixMnyCo1-x-yO2 Cathode Materials (SC-NMC) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ultra-Stable Thermally Excellent Advancements in Material Strength (USTEAMS) - Sandia National Laboratories

Ultraclean Condensing Gas Furnace - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Toroidal Propeller - MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Other category

32 Tesla Superconducting Magnet - National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University

Process/Prototyping category

Electrochemical Leach (EC-Leach) - Idaho National Laboratory

High Energy, Low Dispersion (HELD) Multilayer Dielectric (MLD) Gratings - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Iron Nitride Soft Magnetics - Sandia National Laboratories, University of California, Irvine

RapidCure: High-Speed Electron Beam Processing of Battery Electrodes - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tailored Glass Using Direct Ink Writing Technology - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

TROPICS Pathfinder Satellite- MIT Lincoln Laboratory, NASA Blue Canyon Technologies

Software/Services category

Airborne Collision Avoidance System for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems - MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Federal Aviation Administration, MITRE, and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

ALArM: Acoustic Large-Area Monitoring - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Chevron USA Inc., Evident Scientific

Automated Threat Estimator for Networks and Applications (ATHENA) - Sandia National Laboratories

City Buildings, Energy, and Sustainability (CityBES) Web Tool for Climate Change Strategies - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

EpiGrid: A user-friendly tool for epidemiological decision making - Los Alamos National Laboratory

Flash-X, a Multiphysics Simulation Software - Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Michigan State University; University of Chicago; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Riken Center for Computational Science, Japan

Gremlin: Discovering Weaknesses in Artificial Intelligence - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

GridEye: A Wide-Area Power Grid Real-Time Situational Awareness System - University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Health Analysis and Research for Public Events Tool (HARPE) - Argonne National Laboratory

Machine Intelligence for Review and Analysis of Condition Logs and Entries (MIRACLE) - Idaho National Laboratory

MOSAICS: Bringing the Future of Industrial Cybersecurity Into Focus - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Idaho National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

On-Chip Neuromorphic Backpropagation Algorithm - Los Alamos National Laboratory

Proactive Intrusion Detection and Mitigation System (PIDMS) - Sandia National Laboratories

SolidPAC: A Comprehensive Solid-State Battery Design Tool - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Battery Performance and Cost (BatPaC) Model - Argonne National Laboratory

The SEED Platform: Decarbonizing Cities Through Robust Data Management - National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Constrained Communications/Radar Dual-Use Waveforms (CONCORD) - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Timely Address Space Randomization (TASR) - MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Special Recognition: Battling COVID-19
SILVER
EpiGrid: A user-friendly tool for epidemiological decision making - Los Alamos National Laboratory

Special Recognition: Corporate Social Responsibility
BRONZE
LightSlingers: Antennas that generate radio waves from faster-than-light currents - Los Alamos National Laboratory

Special Recognition: Green Tech
GOLD
LightSlingers: Antennas that generate radio waves from faster-than-light currents - Los Alamos National Laboratory

SILVER
RapidCure: High-Speed Electron Beam Processing of Battery Electrodes - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 

Special Recognition: Market Disruptor – Products
SILVER
Proactive Intrusion Detection and Mitigation System (PIDMS) - Sandia National Laboratories

BRONZE
ALArM: Acoustic Large-Area Monitoring - Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chevron USA Inc., Evident Scientific 

Special Recognition: Market Disruptor – Services
BRONZE
BioManIAC: Bioplastics Manufacturing with Intelligent Adaptive Control - Los Alamos National Laboratory