Mark Your Calendar!
Patents & Pizza: The
APL Office of Technology Transfer held another Patents & Pizza seminar
on February 11, 2003. The keynote speaker was Cynthia Gonsalves from the
Office of the Secretary of Defense Office of Technology Transition. Ms.
Gonsalves presented the DoD Technology Transfer program, including DoD
directives and congressional mandates that ensure the full use of the
nation’s federal investment in R&D through technology transfer.
The next Patents & Pizza seminar is scheduled for
June 10, 2003, and will include a panel of APL inventors who will discuss
their technology transfer experiences.
Click here for information on past seminars, including handouts.
Invention of the Year: APL will hold its fourth annual
Invention of the Year ceremony on Wednesday, May 7, 2003, from 5:00 to
7:00 p.m. in the Kossiakoff Center at APL. The annual event honors APL
researchers and awards the top inventions for the year 2002.
An independent panel of business and industry representatives will select
the top invention in each of three categories: physical science, information
science and life science. The winners are based on their creativity, novelty
and potential benefit to society.
For more information, please contact Ms. S. Furney at 240-228-8122
or Ms. Donna Couturiaux at 240-228-3541.
APL and TEDCO will partner to host a technology showcase
to be held at APL’s Kossiakoff Center on Thursday, September 4,
2003. More details.
Washington Area Tops the Inc. 500 List
For the 6th consecutive year, the Washington, D.C., area tops the Inc. 500 list, with six more companies making the list this last year. Forty area companies are included, with more than half of those companies being technology based. Rankings are based on percentage increase in sales for private companies from 1997 to 2001. Washington, D.C., leads Atlanta, Chicago, Boston and the Silicon Valley.
http://www.inc.com/inc500/
Doing Our Part
APL
Key in Tomahawk Test: APL played a key role in the first-ever
flight last month of the Navy’s Tactical Tomahawk—the
next generation of the Navy’s Tomahawk cruise missile. APL served
as strike controller during the successful test, exchanging messages
with the missile via satellite during its 550-mile flight, using APL-developed
software that monitored the missile’s status and allowed it to
be redirected in flight—one of the missile’s unique capabilities.
- Strategic Partnership Forged with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI): APL and the SEI at Carnegie Mellon University have forged a strategic partnership that combines APL’s proven systems engineering experience with SEI’s advanced software expertise. The pairing positions APL and SEI to offer better systems and services to the military and other government agencies that protect national security and the nation’s critical infrastructure. The partnership’s key goal is to improve the quality, utility and interoperability of complex, software-intensive systems.
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