Manufacturing

The FLC is excited to announce that 21 new technologies will be featured in the second shoot of the LabTech in Your Life virtual home environment . These technologies represent a wide range of household items that were developed by federal laboratories and went on to achieve significant success in...

It's been a busy few weeks in the news for technology transfer and the federal labs! Here are just a few headlines. July brought some new developments to the world of intellectual property—the first post-America Invents Act patent was issued around July 18. Only a few days earlier, Sen. Patrick...

Greetings from D.C. In October, the President announced the latest in a series of initiatives to strengthen advanced manufacturing in the U.S.—some of which touch on ways to provide access to technical capabilities and resources at some federal labs (i.e., tech transfer). These new Executive...

[caption id="attachment_18930" align="alignright" width="300"] Proof-of-concept design of subscale additively manufactured penetrators showing internal features that are not possible with traditional subtractive manufacturing techniques. (Image: U.S. Air Force)[/caption] Additive manufacturing has...

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is turning up the heat! A state-of-the-art AFRL testing capability for new additive manufactured heat exchangers (HX) is now up and running, and is already providing AFRL’s Maturation of Advanced Manufacturing for Low-cost Sustainment, or MAMLS, program with...

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) scientist Dr. Rusty Blanski recently teamed with Dr. Robert Grubbs, a Nobel Laureate from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to develop a groundbreaking new technology that could reduce erosion in metallic rocket components, reduce production...

1.28 petaFLOPS (floating operations per second) is equal to 1.28 quadrillion calculations per second, which is also the speed of the Air Force Research Laboratory ’s (AFRL) new Cray XC30 supercomputer, nicknamed Lightning, which was officially unveiled Sept. 23 during a special ribbon-cutting...

The Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory , has created a new chemical process that makes use of the widely available rare-earth metal cerium to improve the manufacture of nylon.The process uses a cerium-based material made into...

The Critical Materials Institute , a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by Ames Labratory , has created a new chemical process that makes use of the widely available rare-earth metal cerium to improve the manufacture of nylon. The process uses a cerium-based material made into nanometer-...

A suite of analytical innovations used to detect and measure very low levels of compounds and elements for environmental, national security, and health applications has topped $10 million in licensing income for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and its operator, Battelle. Most of the money...