A breakthrough technology in the form of a unique, functional human liver cell line has the potential to become the new worldwide gold standard for preclinical drug evaluation studies. Read More...

An enhanced safety welding cart patented by the U.S. Air Force Vandenberg Air Force Base Training Device Design and Engineering Center (TDDEC) to increase the safety and well being of airmen is now available commercially through Spika Welding & Manufacturing Inc., Moccasin, Montana. Read More...

The Small Business Technology Council announced that Ray Friesenhahn of TechLink, was selected as one of the winners of the 2007 National Tibbetts Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Small Business Innovation Research. Read More...

Picture an intruder stepping stealthily across an international borderline. Now shift to a U.S. Command and Control center several miles away... Read More...

A new textile management software product developed by TEXbase of Bozeman, Mont., can greatly improve textile engineering speed and reduce direct labor by 55 percent. Read More...

Companies considering licensing software from the Department of Defense can now ‘try before they buy’ at Montana State University (MSU). Read More...

Aluminum and zinc-plated metals now have a new ‘friend” in trivalent chromium pre and post treatments, a process that has been exclusively licensed by SurTec International, Zwingenberg, Germany, from the United States Navy for all areas outside of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Read More...

A new post-manufacturing process in development by Applied Sciences, Inc., of Dayton, Ohio, will make composite resin materials stronger, better able to conduct electricity, and less expensive, too. Read More...

TechLink and the Edison Materials Technology Center have entered into an agreement to work together to improve the quality and quantity of Department of Defense technology transfer activities in Ohio and throughout the United States. Read More...

The Naval Medical Center San Diego and American BioHealth Group announced today a medical breakthrough that protects against hearing loss. Read More...

AdvR Inc., of Bozeman, established a partnership with NASA to qualify the company's low-cost, energy efficient, lightweight seed laser for space flight. Read More...

Imagine what a difference GPS technology would have made to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Or even a digital camera. Read More...

American BioHealth Group (ABG) and TechLink announce the acquisition by American BioHealth Group of another exclusive license to new patented approaches developed by the US Navy and the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (UB). Read More...

Swimming pools, window frames, aircraft, wheels, bicycles, and fasteners – what do they all have in common? They’re made of aluminum or zinc coated alloys, metals which require a protective coating to prevent corrosion and help paint stick to their non-adherent surfaces. Read More...

The world’s first protective chromium-based metal finish coating that is both environmentally benign and highly effective will be commercially available later this year as a result of a license between the U.S. Navy and Metalast International, Inc. of Minden, Nevada. Read More...

What probe functions like a Star Trek tricorder, can be pushed 100 feet deep in the soil, and has the potential to revolutionize mineral exploration, soil contaminant characterization, and petrochemical and chemical processing here on Earth? Give up? Read More...

With twin goals of Spiderman-like vertical mobility and safety, Capewell Components, Inc. of South Windsor, Connecticut, has licensed from the U.S. Army, a lightweight, retractable grappling hook for scaling walls and buildings, and boarding boats. Read More...

Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont. will recognize TechLink for its contributions to state economic development and its graduation from pilot program to permanent Department of Defense program, at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, December 5. Read More...

The latest defense against bioterrorism may be in your own saliva. A new test strip can evaluate an individual’s immune response to the anthrax vaccine in a matter of minutes anytime, anyplace. Read More...

An automated, laser-based scanning system, that will improve the safety of future Space Shuttle missions, is being developed for NASA by Laser Techniques Company of Bellevue, Washington. Read More...

Later this summer, researchers from U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, and NASA labs will join Bozeman ecologists and land managers for a sweeping project in Yellowstone and southwest Montana that will result in unique, high-quality maps of the region's terrain. Read More...

Promising new stream bank stabilization methods will be developed, tested and demonstrated by two Montana environmental restoration companies in conjunction with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Read More...

Once again it's summer time in Montana, and anglers from every part of the world are plying the waters of our blue ribbon trout streams. Yet as we Montanans pull on our waders, the fishing season, metaphorically, offers an opportunity to reflect on the state of our economy and the prospects for prosperity that may lay hidden in the deeper runs and pools. Read More...

Montana may soon become a stronger competitor in the U.S. aerospace industry thanks to a new partnership between NASA and the Montana Aerospace Development Authority (MADA), a two-year-old, non-profit corporation focused on growing the state’s aerospace industry. Read More...

The MSU TechLink Center and the Juneau Economic Development Council are bridging 1700 miles to form a partnership that will drive economic growth in Alaska’s technology sector. Read More...

A technology to rapidly and accurately detect and identify bioterror pathogens is the focus of a new business in Bozeman. Read More...

The Montana State University TechLink center announced today that Laser Techniques Company of Bellevue, Washington, has begun work on a NASA contract to develop a tiny automated laser scanner that may reliably and cost-effectively improve the safety of future Space Shuttles. Read More...

The Montana State University TechLink center announced today that NASA will test a new coating developed by a Montana company for use on future spacecraft. Read More...

An opportunity to create more high-tech businesses in Montana came last week in the form of a new federal grant aimed at home-growing those companies rather than recruiting them from outside the state. Read More...

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently released the results of a year-long study that names the Montana State University TechLink Center one of the top technology transfer organizations in the nation. Read More...

Like piecing a jigsaw puzzle together, Digital Images Made Easy (DIME), a new software product developed and marketed by Positive Systems, Inc., of Whitefish, Mont., can integrate a series of aerial or satellite snapshots into a single panoramic image, providing a cost-effective and time-saving new tool for urban and rural resource managers and planners. Read More...

iSense Corporation, Portland, Ore., today announced it has been awarded a $284,487 grant from the National Medical Technology Testbed, Inc. (NMTB) for development of telemetry (wireless) and telemedicine systems to be used with their current continuous glucose monitoring system. Read More...

HyPerspectives, a Bozeman company that specializes in analyzing remotely sensed images of the earth, won a $100,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop new methods for identification of camouflaged military targets. Read More...

A new technology for improving all-around performance of single rotor helicopters is being tested by a Washington company and assessed by the United States Navy (USN). Read More...

American BioHealth Group, LLC has signed an exclusive license with the United States Navy for a new and novel pharmaceutical technology developed by the Naval Medical Center-San Diego for the prevention and treatment of hearing loss resulting from noise and chemical exposure. Read More...

New methods for restoring river and stream banks are attracting national attention for a Livingston, Montana, environmental company. Read More...

Agri ImaGIS of Maddock, North Dakota, has licensed patented U.S. Navy technology that will enable the company to deliver high-resolution satellite imagery to agricultural users by wireless methods. Read More...

Montana Microbiological Services, LLC (MMS) of Bozeman has won a contract from NASA Johnson Space Center to begin early stage development of an automated water quality monitoring system that can detect microscopic contaminants in closed water systems like those on spacecraft or submarines. Read More...

A new tool to rapidly identify biological agents in food, water and air is being developed by SoftRay, Inc. of Laramie, Wyo., and will undergo testing at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center in Natick, Mass. Read More...

Novel water purification membranes being co-developed by Osmotek, Inc. of Albany, Ore., and NASA Ames Research Center have the potential to efficiently and reliably treat water for space travel and, on Earth, to effectively treat industrial or contaminated water. Read More...

Preventing bioterrorism and food-borne illness is on everyone's mind these days, and for good reason: it's hard to attack an enemy that's almost invisible. Read More...

The Lewis and Clark expedition was a two-year journey into a new frontier that helped put the West on the map. Now NASA is trying to do the same for the historic trek. Read More...

Montana's high tech farmers are looking at their fields with new "eye in the sky" technology this summer, thanks to NASA and the MSU TechLink Center. Read More...

Bitterroot Restoration, Inc. (BRI) of Corvallis, Montana, has received a five-year, $5 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for watershed and abandoned mine lands planning and restoration. Read More...

Researchers at NASA's Stennis Space Center have signed an agreement with noted archeologist Ken Karsmizki to apply NASA remote sensing technology to the task of identifying and mapping sites along the trail of Lewis and Clark, who explored the uncharted territory west of the Mississippi River for the U.S. government 200 years ago. Read More...

A revolution has begun! After today the world of geographic information systems (GIS) will never be the same. Read More...

The United States Air Force has signed an agreement with noted archeologist, Ken Karsmizki, to locate and preserve an historic artifact from the Lewis and Clark expedition. Read More...

An innovative and cost-effective way to measure environmental factors and provide accurate, user-friendly data for resource management planners and decision-makers is now on the fast track to market. Read More...

Agri ImaGIS, a Maddock, North Dakota company that specializes in applications of remote sensing for agricultural use, has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), Newport, Rhode Island, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Navy's patented data compression technology on its satellite imagery. Read More...

An innovative new software company that uses advanced engineering software for natural approaches to river restoration and stream bank stabilization is being launched in Livingston, Mont. Read More...

Environmental managers at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and researchers at CHA Corporation, a remediation research and development company in Laramie, Wyo., have formed a partnership to evaluate CHA’s novel approach for removing contaminants from air and water using microwave technology. Read More...

A new technology for detecting and monitoring bridge scour is being jointly evaluated and developed by the U.S. Army, Campbell Scientific of Logan, Utah, and Paul Green, a bridge specialist from Hardin, Mont. Read More...

Huge data files can clog the memory of a computer and slow the functioning of software to a crawl. Read More...

NASA's Earth Science Enterprise has renewed its support for a project to evaluate remote sensing as a tool for on-farm management of small grains like wheat and barley. Read More...

NASA's Earth Science Enterprise recently awarded support for a broad-based weed-mapping project in Montana's Madison County. Read More...

Under a recently signed agreement, Trout Headwaters, Inc. (THI) of Livingston, Montana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will study and further develop techniques for using living plants and other biotechnical approaches to restore streams and banks. Read More...

Imagine being in a spacecraft light years from Earth and surrounded by your own garbage but with nothing to eat. Read More...

Better monitoring of aviation wire systems may keep aging commercial and military aircraft safer for the millions of passengers and crew who fly daily. Read More...

New technology for protecting motorists and pedestrians from collisions with railroad locomotives is being jointly developed by a Billings, Mont. company, Brightsun Incorporated, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of Pasadena, California. Read More...

Visual Learning Systems (VLS) of Missoula, Mont. has created a software product called Feature Analyst (tm)) that improves the efficiency of extracting geospatial information from high-resolution satellite imagery by a factor of 50 to 200 over current methods. Read More...

An efficient new leak detection system that will make workplace conditions safer for workers in repair, overhaul, and production facilities is being jointly developed and evaluated by Dakota Technologies, Inc. (DTI) of Fargo, North Dakota, and the U.S. Navy. Read More...

Bitterroot Restoration of Corvallis, Mont., recently signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for ecological restoration research. Read More...

Under a recently signed research agreement, NASA will test innovative new composite materials fabricated by MSE Technology Applications of Butte, Mont., for potential use in aircraft and space vehicles. Read More...

Monitoring field persistence of introduced microorganisms and evaluating their relationships with contaminants in soil is the focus of a research agreement between Enzyme Technologies, Inc. (ETEC) of Portland, Ore., and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center ­Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, NH. Read More...

New technology for identifying hidden explosives is being jointly developed by a Montana company and the U.S. Navy. Read More...

A promising new device for monitoring the destructive effects of wind, waves and tides on waterways will be tested in a joint research project between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and D & A Instrument Company of Port Townsend, Wash. Read More...

Capturing and identifying the germs that cause thousands of cases of food poisoning in the United States every year may soon become faster and more accurate following testing of new technologies developed by an Idaho company and the U.S. Navy. Read More...

As outdoor enthusiasts flock to snow country in record numbers to pursue winter recreation, better avalanche prediction moves up on the priority lists of snow safety officers and avalanche experts. Read More...

The MSU TechLink Center announced on August 15 that Will Swearingen will become the new executive director of TechLink. Read More...

The TechLink Center at Montana State University helps companies throughout the Northwest to establish productive technology development and commercialization partnerships with NASA, the Department of Defense (DOD), and other federal agencies. Read More...

In an era when wildfires are increasingly becoming more costly, dangerous, and out-of-control, new technologies for preventing and managing these fires will be tested in and around Yellowstone National Park. Read More...

In a business dominated by aerospace goliaths, a small, relatively unknown rocket builder from Casper, Wyo., has landed a contract to launch a cutting-edge prototype for NASA. Read More...

Bitterroot Restoration of Corvallis, Montana, recently signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire, for ecological restoration research. Read More...

Montana Biotech Corporation (MBC) of Belgrade, Montana, recently signed an agreement with NASA’s Ames Research Center (NASA-Ames) in Mountain View, California, to study new biological compounds for use in future optical information processing systems. Read More...

A collaboration of ag groups will demonstrate technologies designed to improve producer management of agricultural chemicals in Montana’s vast wheat belt. Read More...

Montec Research of Butte, Montana, recently signed an agreement with NASA¹s Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC) in Hampton, Virginia, for research on advanced aerospace materials. Read More...

NASA Stennis Space Center and Yellowstone Ecosystem Studies (Y.E.S.) of Bozeman have just signed an agreement to jointly evaluate two new remote sensing instruments developed by NASA. Read More...

Dakota Technologies, Inc. (DTI), located in Fargo, North Dakota, is developing technology to improve the accuracy and speed of wind tunnel testing for aeronautical designs. Read More...

Montana Microbiological Services (MMS), an environmental analytical firm in Bozeman, Montana, is currently developing an innovative digital image analysis (DIA) system. Read More...

Initial tests of a new Catalytic Ignition (CI) system on a standard general aviation (GA) engine have successfully demonstrated the system’s ability to improve engine performance while operating on multiple fuels, including Avgas, 87UL and Jet-A, without the use of magnetos. Read More...

Headwaters Composites (Three Forks, MT) has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Montana State University EPICenter to develop its "Wallite" building material as part of a "green building" technology development program. Read More...

Aerospace technology originally developed for studying Earth's atmosphere from space has been to a U.S. company to increase the reliability of lasers used for everything from medical applications and product fabrication to detection of gas leaks. Read More...

Montana Biotech Corporation of Belgrade, Montana, has just signed a Technology Cooperation Agreement with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, for research on radiation-shielding compounds. Read More...

MSE Technology Applications, Inc., of Butte, Montana, recently signed an agreement with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, for advanced research on deep space propulsion systems. Read More...

TechLink, a technology transfer center at Montana State University, has played a key role in assisting two Montana environmental technology companies to secure grants from a national program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and managed by the National Association of State Development Agencies (NASDA). Read More...

Agri ImaGIS, a North Dakota remote sensing company with offices in Maddock and Fargo, specializes in providing value-added satellite imagery to the agriculture industry. Read More...

NASA MSU TechLink today announced that MSU professor, Dr. David Dickensheets, is a major participant in a project to develop an instrument to search for life on Mars and analyze its soil and geological history. Read More...

U.S. Senators Max Baucus and Conrad Burns today announced that Montana State University (MSU) TechLink received an award of $347,000 to begin commercializing a new product for locust control in the African country of Madagascar. Read More...

Montana Senator Conrad Burns today released more details on NASA Stennis Space Center's $600,000 grant awarded to Yellowstone Ecosystem Studies (Y.E.S.) in Bozeman for a two-year study of streams and riparian habitat in Yellowstone National Park using state-of-the-art remote sensing technology. Read More...

Boise Cascade Corporation is partnering with NASA-MSU TechLink, USDA Forest Products Laboratory and the University of Montana in co-sponsoring work at the University of Idaho to improve methods for assessing the quality of wood in standing trees. Read More...

A team of experts in fisheries biology, remote sensing, aerospace technology and the environment has committed its expertise and resources to carry out an important restoration project for the westslope cutthroat trout on a tributary of Montana's famous fly-fishing stream, the Madison River. Read More...

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The Montana State University-Bozeman TechLink Center has been awarded a new $53,000 grant from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to evaluate and transfer to industry new methods of producing ethanol from wood waste. Read More...

MSU TechLink investigators Dan Swanson, Peter Perna, and Linda Young (MSU Trade Research Center) examined several Montana products that could be turned into ethanol, and sawdust came out on top in terms of economic feasibility. Read More...

Montana Senators Max Baucus and Conrad Burns today congratulated Montana Biotech Corp. located in Belgrade, on its agreement to work with NASA researching microbes in the thermal pools of Yellowstone National Park. Read More...

NASA-MSU TechLink has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Bureau of Reclamation, an arm of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Read More...

A company in Belgrade, Montana, that searches for unique microorganisms in Yellowstone National Park has just signed an agreement to help NASA identify microbes in rock samples from other planets. Read More...

Environmental technology is an important emerging industry in Montana. Unfortunately, the domestic market for environmental technology has been weak in recent years. Read More...

Earth Search Sciences, Inc., a remote sensing company in McCall, Idaho, has been collaborating with NASA over the past seven years to commercialize "hyperspectral" imaging technology. Read More...

A Helena company has just begun a cooperative research project with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Read More...

A high-tech firm in Whitefish is the first Montana company to tap into the nation's space program through a new technology transfer center established a year ago. Read More...

BioTech Transfer Week - The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the largest biomedical research laboratory in the US Department of Defense, has exclusively licensed an immortalized liver cell line to Thai biotech firm Siam Life Science for use in preclinical drug-evaluation and -safety studies. Read More...

Safety Online -- An enhanced safety welding cart patented by the U.S. Air Force Vandenberg Air Force Base Training Device Design and Engineering Center (TDDEC) to increase the safety and well being of airmen is now available commercially through Spika Welding & Manufacturing Inc., Moccasin, Montana. Read More...

BusinessWeek -- Even colleges and universities with less R&D funding can find profitable niches in tech transfer, a study finds Read More...

Great Falls Tribune -- A Lewistown-area manufacturing company is building a new manufacturing plant outside of town after recently signing a $2.9 million contract to build platforms for the Department of Defense. Read More...

Earthtimes.org -- NineSigma, a leading provider of open innovation solutions to the enterprise, today announced that TechLink, a federal technology transfer intermediary, has joined its Innovation Alliance Program -- a global network of leading scientists, technologists and innovators. Read More...

Missoulian.com -- In an industry with few of its own tools, THI RiverWorks Inc. has come up with a shockproof, waterproof computer just for river restoration. Read More...

Billings Gazette -- It seems fitting that next door to where the government once considered building a hydroelectric dam - a structure that would have flooded much of Montana's Paradise Valley - Mike Sprague headquartered his river restoration business. Read More...

Montana Associated Technology Roundtables -- In a recently released report to Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) surveyed 254 federal programs that provide services to support the US business sector. Read More...

New Hamshire Union Leader -- Xpert Design and Diagnostics (XDD) has successfully tested a system that promises faster and cheaper cleanup of underground volatile organic compounds. Read More...

San Diego Union-Tribune -- Cpl. John Shahin doesn't remember the sound of the bomb that hit his Humvee in Iraq three years ago, leaving the 22-year-old Marine with hearing loss and other lingering injuries. Read More...

Ventura County Star -- The pipe in Andrew Drucker's cubicle, only a half-inch in diameter, is a prototype device that could reduce the cost of cleaning up contaminated groundwater by millions of dollars. Read More...

The Daily Inter Lake -- When U.S. troops rescued Pfc. Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital in 2003, they put her in a “Rescue Wrap” — a down-filled, sleeping-bag-like wrap with pockets for intravenous lines and heat packs. Read More...

The Wall Street Journal -- Retired U.S. Army Sergeant Major Rick Cayton says he isn't interested in most energy bars available at his local grocery store in Killeen, a small town near the Fort Hood military base in central Texas. But the decorated Vietnam War veteran says he loves the Hooah! bar, the official nutrition bar of the U.S. military. Read More...

C4ISR Journal -- Sue Payton, Deputy undersecretary of defense for advanced systems and concepts on technology transition. Read More...

National Defense -- Soldiers and first responders soon will get the hook, literally. Read More...

Security -- Most everyone is familiar with the threats and vulnerabilities, as well as many of the security technologies and procedures, that protect airports and airplanes. Read More...

Special Operations Technologies -- Capewell Components Inc., South Windsor, CT, has licensed from the U.S. Army, a lightweight, retractable grappling hook for boarding boats and scaling walls and buildings. Read More...

Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- It seems like a stretch to imagine that computer software designed to help Navy submarines tell the difference between an underwater attacker and a whale would be of any use in Montana. Read More...

Alaska Journal of Commerce -- Montana and Alaska are a lot alike. Both have resource-based economies, small populations, and wide open spaces. Read More...

Associated Press Worldstream -- Scientists have been accumulating evidence in lab animals for years that a pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing. Now they're sending in the Marines. Read More...

Montana Associated Technology Roundtables -- A technology to detect and identify bioterrorist pathogens -- such as anthrax toxin, botulism toxin, plague and tularemia bacteria -- is the focus of a new Bozeman business. Read More...

Billings Gazette -- Once again it's summertime in Montana, and anglers from every part of the world are plying the waters of our blue ribbon trout streams. Read More...

Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- The military is supplying airplanes that have been flying over the northern Yellowstone region in July, carrying devices that incorporate both radar and hyperspectral imaging, which translate an image of an object such as a tree into a wide variety of colors. Read More...

Missoulian -- A Missoula technology company has joined NASA to explore the geographical history of Lewis and Clark's journey, and how the land has changed in the past 200 years. Read More...

GEOWorld -- Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark didn't have the luxury of digital orthophoto quadrangles or 10-meter- resolution commercial imagery when they led a 35-member "Corps of Discovery" on a trek across the uncharted interior of the United States in the early 1800s. Read More...

MSNBC -- The U.S. Congress made an Apollo-like decision nearly 200 years ago to dispatch an expedition of explorers into uncharted territory. Read More...

Photonics Spectra -- Laser Techniques Co. of Bellevue, Wash., has completed the first task of a NASA contract for the development of a miniature automated laser scanner that may improve the safety of space shuttles. Read More...

Space News - A vast cache of satellite imagery along the Lewis and Clark trail will become available to the public for the first time through a new partnership between NASA and GCS Research, a geospatial information technology company in Missoula, Mont., the Montana State University TechLink center today announced. Read More...

Space News -- NASA will test a new coating developed by Aircraft Finishing Systems for use on future spacecraft, the Montana State University TechLink Center announced Sept. 20. Read More...

Billings Gazette -- NASA plans to test the product of a Montana company to see if it can be used to protect orbiting satellites. Read More...

SpaceDaily -- Like piecing a jigsaw puzzle together, Digital Images Made Easy (DIME(tm)), a new software product developed and marketed by Positive Systems, Inc., of Whitefish, Mont., can integrate a series of aerial or satellite snapshots into a single panoramic image, providing a cost-effective and time-saving new tool for urban and rural resource managers and planners. Read More...

SpaceDaily -- HyPerspectives, a Bozeman company that specializes in analyzing remotely sensed images of the earth, won a $100,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop new methods for identification of camouflaged military targets. Read More...

FLC NewsLink -- There is good news for the more than 39 million individuals who are at risk or suffer from hearing loss caused by noise or chemical exposure. Read More...

Federal Technology Report -- A novel pharmaceutical technology to help prevent and restore certain types of hearing loss has been licensed by the U.S. Navy exclusively to American BioHealth Group LLC, and could benefit service personnel as well as the American public. Read More...

AFRL Technology Horizons -- Preempting aircraft wiring failures will have a direct impact in making commercial and military aircraft safer. Read More...

NASA Spinoff -- The NASA Commercial Technology Program sponsors a number of organizations around the country that are designed to assist U.S. businesses in accessing, utilizing, and commercializing NASA-funded research and technology. Read More...

NASA Spinoff -- Automotive Resources, Inc. (ARI), of Sandpoint, Idaho, has developed a new device for igniting fuel in engines--the SmartPlugTM. Read More...

NASA Spinoff -- Storage tanks are absolutely critical to the needs of the petroleum and chemical industry. Read More...

Oregonian -- Searching for Lewis and Clark's campsites is Ken Karsmizki's passion. In the past 15 years, the archaeologist has spent countless hours digging for vestiges of the expedition. Read More...

NCOE Update -- The first thing you notice about Bozeman, Montana is that it doesn't look like many other places. Read More...

Associated Press -- When 46,000 plants are put in the ground on mined Navajo land in Arizona this October, the work will be steered by a Montana company with a niche in the vast business of trying to undo environmental damage. Read More...

Los Angeles Times (AP) -- Bitterroot Restoration Inc., headquartered in Corvallis, Mont., supplies hardy native seedlings to heal disturbed land. Read More...

The Associated Press -- NASA scientists here are taking archaeology to new heights, teaming with researchers in Oregon on the 200-year-old trail of Lewis and Clark. Read More...

Billings Gazette -- Bitterroot Restoration, Inc. of Corvallis, has received a five-year, $5 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for watershed and abandoned mine lands planning and restoration. Read More...

NASA News Service -- The Lewis and Clark expedition was a two-year journey into a new frontier that helped put the West on the map. Read More...

SpaceDaily -- Montana's high tech farmers are looking at their fields with new "eye in the sky" technology this summer, thanks to NASA and the MSU TechLink Center. Read More...

Great Falls Tribune -- Oh, how explorers and science buffs Meriwether Lewis and William Clark would have marveled if they were in a field a couple miles south of Great Falls Monday. Read More...

Aviation Now -- NASA researchers will team up with a leading archeologist to use aerial and satellite images to try to identify and map sites along the trail of fabled explorers Lewis and Clark, who opened the American West to development two centuries ago. Read More...

NationalTrust.org -- This week, researchers at NASA's Stennis Space Center, in southern Mississippi, and noted archaeologist Ken Karsmizki announced a joint venture to map sites along the trail of Lewis and Clark, who explored uncharted territory west of the Mississippi River for the American government 200 years ago. Read More...

Associated Press -- "She lay like a cork,'' he wrote in his journal. But the iron-framed boat that Lewis designed floated only for a moment before it leaked and sank, taking with it his high spirits. "The circumstance mortified me not a little,'' he wrote. Read More...

Great Falls Tribune -- A Space Age robot has been enlisted to join the search for the iron boat an archaeologist believes Lewis and Clark buried in a field south of Great Falls in 1805. Read More...

Monosys Guide to Monitoring -- The TechLink Center at Montana State University helps companies throughout the Northwest region of the United States to establish productive technology development and commercialization partnerships with NASA and DoD, and other federal government agencies. Read More...

SpaceDaily -- The TechLink Center at Montana State University helps companies throughout the Northwest to establish productive technology development and commercialization partnerships with NASA, the Department of Defense (DoD), and other federal agencies. Read More...

Missoulian -- As increasing numbers of recreationists head into the backcountry each winter, pursuing a variety of outdoor activities, the ability to predict avalanche danger becomes ever more crucial. Read More...

FLC Environmental Newsletter -- Monitoring field persistence of introduced microorganisms and evaluating their relationships with contaminants in soil is the focus of a research agreement between Enzyme Technologies, Inc. (ETEC) of Portland, OR and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center-Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, NH. Read More...

Christian Science Monitor -- The door of teacher Ed Galindo's classroom at Shoshone-Bannock High School reads: Yih'Yih'Tzin Agudu Duvoponeed. Read More...

Christian Science Monitor -- With an industrial drill, a cement mixer, and a galvanized steel tub as basic implements, John Wickman could be mistaken for any backyard handyman attending to his weekend chores. Read More...

Aero-News Network -- Flying his aircraft without magnetos, and changing fuel types in-flight were things Dr. Forrest Bird thought he would never live to see. Read More...

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy -- An International Partnership initiated by TechLink is providing new testing applications and environments for a unique new instrument funded by NASA JPL for a possible future NASA Mars mission. Read More...

Christian Science Monitor -- Montana Biotech is one of the quiet companies making amazing breakthroughs in biotechnology, far from the traditional centers of advanced research and development. Read More...

New York Times -- A new type of rocket engine under development could halve the travel time between Earth and Mars -- should NASA ever decide to send astronauts there. Read More...

Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- Scientists in Bozeman and Idaho say they may have a solution to the vexing problem of snowmobiles spewing tons of pollution into the otherwise pristine air of Yellowstone National Park Read More...

Montana Business Quarterly -- Mapping noxious weeds with remote sensing equipment, protecting cancer patients from radiation's harmful effects, and developing a Mars Cargo Vehicle for deep space travel are just a few of the projects Montana high-tech firms are working on as the millennium nears. Read More...

Defense News -- U.S. Army scientists and engineers at the service's research laboratory in New Jersey say they are one or two years away from a breakthrough in composite materials that could substantially reduce the weight of armored vehicles. Read More...

New York Times -- A helicopter clatters loudly over the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park, flying low and slow to snap images of the patchwork of creeks, meadows, pine and fir. Read More...

Fencelines -- From the peaks above this historic town, it's easy to imagine miners discovering gold and the dramas that played out between vigilantes and road agents. Read More...

Aviation Week - TechLink client Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion Co. has successfully test-fired rocket and jet engines that use carbon dioxide as an oxidizer. Read More...

Aviation Week -- A Catalytic Igniter technology developed by Automotive Resources, Inc. (ARI) has demonstrated its capability by improving power and performance in a Continental 0-200 aircraft engine operating on either avgas or Jet-A fuel, with magnetos removed and even after electrical power cut-off. Read More...

High Country Independent Press -- Montana Senator Conrad Burns on Tuesday announced Montana Biotech Corp. of Belgrade has received a $900,000 contract from the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), which provides funding for a three-year research project to develop safe adhesives for military and commercial use. Read More...

PTB Industry News -- Aerospace technology originally developed by NASA for remote sensing of Earth's atmosphere has been licensed to a Montana company to increase the reliability of lasers. Read More...

Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- A Bozeman-based laser manufacturer will begin adding high-tech NASA equipment to its products, under an agreement signed Thursday with the space agency. Read More...

Billings Gazette -- NASA scientists spend much of their time with their heads in the clouds. Read More...

Range -- What comes to mind when you think of NASA-the National Aeronautics and Space Administration? Perhaps "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" or "God speed, John Glenn." Read More...

Aviation Week -- Solex Environmental's "Maverick" fuel storage tank inspection robot recently successfully completed a bottom floor inspection of an Amoco floating-roof tank near Baton Rouge, La. Read More...

Aviation Week Airports Today -- Solex Robotics Systems, Idaho Falls, Idaho, created Maverick, a rugged tank floor robot that allows in-service inspection of aboveground aviation fuel tanks for mandated corrosion and structural integrity checks. Read More...

Agri-News -- Although we think of NASA as focused on the heavens, the innovations they've created are being used here at home. Read More...

Trade & Forfaiting Review -- Small, but innovative environmental technology firms in remote parts of Montana are finding help with exporting through MSU TechLink, the technology transfer arm of Montana State University. Read More...

Ingersoll-Rand's Compressed Air Magazine -- A remote-controlled submersible robot designed to inspect the bottoms of petroleum and chemical storage tanks recently took a dive into the huge pool at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL), Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. Read More...

Bozeman Daily Chronicle -- A new $600,000 grant from NASA could help area researchers create detailed maps of things as diverse as lynx habitat, grizzly bear feeding areas and spotted knapweed infestations. Read More...

Laramie Daily Boomerang -- The NASA Mars Instrument Development Program has chosen a Wyoming company to develop a probe to search for signs of life on Mars. Read More...

Western Coal -- NASA technology used to geologically prospect planetary surfaces is being adapted to test ore quality in the Earth's mines. Read More...

Christian Science Monitor -- Microbes found in Yellowstone's hot springs provide a glimpse of what could exist on Mars. Read More...