Bridget Mintz Testa

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NASA has pulled together the content from 10 different websites under a mandated technology transfer program that makes it available via a new web portal promoting its patents and commercialized technologies.

The new portal, launched late last month, showcases 1635 out of NASA’s 6329 patents that have been commercialized by American businesses, many of them small companies. A NASA Spinoff section lists commercialized technologies from the 10 agency field centers, such as ventilators for critically injured patients and custom machines that advance composite manufacturing. Keep reading →

Three federal agencies are trying to tap the creativity of the marketplace to develop a new breed of portable, light-weight, inexpensive sensors to better understand how individuals are affected by air pollution.

The initiative, announced June 6, is the latest in a wave of government Challenge contests that serve up difficult public sector challenges and reward creative, fast-track solutions from the private sector with prize money. Keep reading →

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