CCAT Solicitation for Project Funding (2004-03) - Applications Due November 15, 2004

October 18, 2004 -- The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) http://www.ccatsandiego.org/index.shtml announces the opening of solicitation 2004-03IA. CCAT is looking for technologies within certain focus areas. A copy of our Focus Areas section is on our website and is appended at the bottom of this e-mail for information. If you have specific questions about the application process, please visit our FAQ section or contact us directly. A listing of the CCAT portfolio of prior awardees - including those at the Jacobs School - is at www.ccatsandiego.org/ourportfolio.shtml. If you're interested in future solicitations, you may use the Solicitation Notification List form to register for email notification. Your Application must be submitted as a Word document electronically via email. Please note that this solicitation closes at 4 p.m. PST on Monday, November 15, 2004.

What funding and services are available? - (CCAT) provides a broad range of unique services to technology innovators and developers. The Center's goal is to move these technologies through the developmental milestones necessary for success. CCAT Grant Awards include Research & Development grants ($75K max) and Prototype Development/Test/Evaluation ($75K max). CCAT Services include Market Studies and Business Plan Development.

What is CCAT? - The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) - supported by Congress and funded by the Department of Defense - is a public-private collaborative partnership between academia, industry, and government. Partners include the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School and UCSD CONNECT; San Diego State University (SDSU) Foundation and Entrepreneurial Management Center; and Lockheed-Martin ORINCON, Inc. with support from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego. The CCAT consortium's objective is to bridge the gap that exists between the generators of technology, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security and the commercial marketplace. CCAT conducts solicitations to identify promising technologies with applications in Homeland Security, Crisis/Consequence Management, and other national priorities.

Answers to Questions & Assistance in Preparing Applications - are available from the Jacobs School von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement. Contact Steve Johnson at 858-822-5960, on his cell phone at 619-980-8379, or stevejsn@ucsd.edu.

Stephen I. Johnson
Technology and Business Advisor
Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT)
von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement
Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego UCSD
stevejsn@ucsd.edu
(o) 858-822-5960
(c) 619-980-8379
http://www.vonliebig.ucsd.edu/

List of technologies of general interest to CCAT

The following is a list of technologies of general interest to CCAT. However, it is not possible to provide an exhaustive and complete list of all technologies that may provide solutions to critical defense and homeland security technology needs. Therefore, the list of technologies of interest is offered as a general guidance to applicants concerning focus areas of interest. CCAT will accept responsive applications for review that demonstrate potential solutions to any critical defense or homeland security need notwithstanding the below focus areas.

Department of Defense Technologies
a. General Topics
· Missile Defense
· Enhanced Communications
· Sensor Technologies
· Computers, Communications, Command, Control, Intelligence,
Surveillance, Reconnaissance
· Personnel Protection
· Network Centric Warfare
· Information Systems and Superiority
· Incident Assessment and Recovery
· Aerospace
· Other

b. Specific Topics
·Handheld Power Sources for Small Electronic Devices (PC's, handheld radios, cell phones, etc.)

·Small, Low Power, Very Thin, Flexibly Displays for Display of Positions and Overlay of Features on Maps

·Noise Suppressive Microphones and Headphone Sets for Non-Stationary Ambient Noise (Vehicle, Tanks, and Other Situations with Ambient Non-Stationary Noise)

Homeland Security Technologies
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Countermeasures
- Decontamination
- Detection
- Information Resources
- Protection
- Vaccines, Therapeutics, Diagnostics

Communications
- Secured interoperable wireless networks
- Information security

Decision Support Systems
- Passenger and baggage screening
- Passenger identification and screening
- Cargo screening
- Tracking and recognition
- Data warehouse/Mining/Information sharing

Explosive Detection
- Large vehicle bomb detection
- Short range detection
- Suicide bomber detection
- Trace explosive detection for intermodal (airlines, bus, rail) transportation tickets

First Responders
- Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear
- Emergency medical operations
- Hazardous materials
- Personal protective equipment
- Firefighter health and safety
- Incident management
- Wildfire

Improvised Device Defeat
- Defeat
- Diagnostics
- Emerging explosive threat
- Remote control vehicles/robots

Infrastructure Protection
- Physical protection
- Cyber security
- Information analysis

Investigative Support and Forensics
- Electronic evidence
- Questioned document examination
- Surveillance technology
- Energetic hazardous materials examination
- Forensic biology and molecular biochemistry
- Friction ridge analysis
- Trace and impression evidence analysis
- Crime scene response and related investigations

Physical Security
- Blast mitigation
- Entry point screening
- Intrusion detection, assessment and delay

Port, Border, Transportation Security
- Passenger security
- Cargo security
- Infrastructure security

Security Technologies
- Checked baggage screening
- Passenger/carry-on baggage security
- Cargo screening
- Credentialing
- Physical security
- Electronic surveillance systems
- Modeling/simulation
- Smart video systems

Surveillance
- Traditional surveillance
- Biometrics
- Command, control, communications, computers, surveillance, reconnaissance (C4ISR)
- Information operations support

Tactical Operations Support
- Advanced imaging systems
- Specialized access systems
- Tactical communications systems
- Offensive systems

Training Technology Development
- Delivery architecture
- Advanced distributed learning
- Training aids, devices, simulations