CCAT(SM) San Diego Announces Commercialization Services Awardees.SAN DIEGO -- The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT CCAT Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (Humboldt State University; Arcata, CA) CCAT Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope CCAT Canadian Cognitive Abilities Test CCAT Competition Commission Appeals Tribunal ) in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. announced the presentation of business service awards to two small companies that have designed and engineered existing prototype technologies for use in military, homeland security and first responder operations. The two small companies, Avaak, Inc. and Lextel Intelligence Systems, have been selected by the Center to receive commercialization assistance in order to accelerate their products' entrance into the marketplace. The Center awarded Avaak, Inc. of San Diego, CA a Market Study, which will examine industry pricing, competitors and market readiness for the company's ultra miniature wireless sensor network “WSN” redirects here. For the metasyntax, see Wirth syntax notation. A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a wireless network consisting of spatially distributed autonomous devices using sensors to cooperatively monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as . The network currently has applications in surveillance, port security and battlefield visualization. Jackson, MS-based Lextel Intelligence Systems was granted a Market Study and Commercialization Planning Services which will provide the company with strategies to expand their technology into new markets and raise capital. Lextel engineers hyperspectral imaging systems designed for chemical and spore (anthrax, ricin, etc.) recognition and improvised explosive device Noun 1. improvised explosive device - an explosive device that is improvised I.E.D., IED explosive device - device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy (IED) detection. Sponsored by the Department of Defense (DoD), the CCAT program offers funding and business development support to small business entrepreneurs, government labs and academic researchers to speed commercialization of technologies needed by DoD and the Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States (DHS). All business services awarded by the CCAT program will be customized to each company's specific requirements and will be performed as a collaboration between CCAT's resident experts and each company's management team. "Since each CCAT client has a different set of needs for getting their technology into the marketplace, individual attention to those needs results in greater long-term success," said Mike Elconin, CCAT client manager. "This success translates into a win not only for the client, but also for the public because both technologies will serve to protect American military and civilian lives." ABOUT THE CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) is supported by Congress and funded by the Department of Defense as a public-private collaborative partnership among academia, industry, and government. With Centers located at California State University, San Bernardino California State University, San Bernardino is a state-funded university in San Bernardino, California, part of the California State University System. The university was founded in 1965. Enrollment annually tops 16,000 and is on pace to reach more than 20,000 by 2010. (CSUSB CSUSB California State University, San Bernardino ) and San Diego State University San Diego State University (SDSU), founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area (generally the City and County of San Diego), and is part of the California State University system. (SDSU), the CCAT program provides funding and business development support services to small entrepreneurs, small businesses, and government/university research scientists that have developed technology for use in the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, as well as the commercial marketplace. Additional program partners include the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering, von Liebig Center, CONNECT and The Security Network with support from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego. For more information about CCAT, visit www.ccatsocal.org. |
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