Technology Transfer RoundtableU.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) organized a technology transfer roundtable discussion at Sandia on October 14 about enhancing technology transfer and creating jobs to strengthen the New Mexico economy. U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), and Jetta Wong, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Acting Director for Technology Transitions, participated along with Jill Hruby, Sandia President and Laboratories Director, Rob Leland, Sandia Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, and officials from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Several local companies founded on technology developed at Sandia - HT MicroAnalytical, Aquila, mPower Technology, and Abbott Medical Optics - also took part in the roundtable. The event was held at Applied Technology Associates (ATA) in the SS&TP.

Left to right: Jetta Wong, DOE Acting Director for Technology Transitions, U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator Tom Udall, and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich.

Technology Transfer Roundtableat Sandia National Laboratories

Our Center for Collaboration and Commercialization concept, right here in the Science & Technology Park, will be the public face for Sandia to provide easier access and build links to the community. We care about the community we live in and care about getting our technology out for the public good. - Jill Hruby, Sandia President and Laboratories Director

Expanding technology transfer so that innovations built at our national labs can move into the marketplace will create new jobs in New Mexico, grow our economy, and broaden access to ideas that improve our everyday lives. - U.S. Senator Tom Udall

Tech transfer must be a primary mission of DOE and NNSA. Spinout companies should be the norm, not the exception. It not only helps the state but is of enormous benefit to the nation. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich

Technology transfer is essential to making sure that America’s economy thrives and succeeds. - U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski

Tech transfer is a mission of the DOE at all our national labs. The office is trying to make the handoff of early stage science and hope the private sector commercializes it. - Jetta Wong, DOE Acting Director for Technology Transitions

Dr. Murat Okandan Founder

mPower Technology

Judy Beckes-Talcott President

Aquila

Dr. Daniel Neal Research Fellow

Abbott Medical Optics

NOVEMBER 2015

U.S. Senator Tom Udall, U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, and Jill Hruby, Sandia President and Laboratories Director, listen to small businesses present on technology transfer successes.

Dr. Todd Christenson CTO and President

HT MicroAnalytical, Inc.

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R E C E N T E V E N T S Manufacturing Day at the ParkAir Products & Chemicals, TEAM Technologies, and The QC Group, located in the SS&TP, hosted a private tour of their facilities for 50 enthusiastic students from the Technology Leadership High School, also located in the Park. These companies participated in “Manufacturing Day”, sponsored by the New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (New Mexico MEP). The purpose of this annual event is to highlight manufacturing, local companies, and the people working in the manufacturing industry. It’s a nationwide push to enhance public knowledge of the value of manufacturing to our economy.

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AWA R D S A N D R E CO G N I T I O N ATA Aerospace Wins NASA ContractATA Aerospace recently won a fi ve-year contract worth up to $505 million with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to provide engineering and related services to the Mechanical Systems Division (MSD) of the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate (AETD) in support of a broad range of technical research and development activities. These activities include the formulation, development, integration and operation of space fl ight and ground systems that support GSFC’s science missions. ATA Aerospace is a joint venture between Applied Technology Associates (ATA), located in the SS&TP, and Maryland-based ASRC Federal Space and Defense.

An Entrepreneurial Exploration & Training (EET) Bootcamp was held on October 20 to provide an overview of the Lean Startup methodology and help identify the commercial applications and markets for ongoing research. There were 15 seasoned entrepreneurs and investors, selected by ABQid, who worked with 18 Sandia principal investigators on an exercise to adapt scientifi c discoveries into real world technological solutions. The session discussed a path to commercialization and off ered insight into what it takes to turn promising research and technology into game changing products and services that will benefi t the world.

Bob Sachs, CEO at TEAM Technologies, talks shop

with students from the Tech Leadership

High School

Rob Mortensen, Facility Manager from Air Products, gives an

overview of the company to students.

Michael Stevens, Inspector/CMM

programmer and Charles Moore, Lab Supervisor

from The QC Group, gather with students

and their teacher after a show-and-tell

demonstration.

C A L E N D A RNov. 7 Atomic STEaM Photography Show winning entries

are on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History. Exhibit runs through January 3.

Nov. 11 “Science Is Everywhere” day camp at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History