“ Lightweight High- Performance Polymers for Aerospace Interiors”-- WSU and Ultra Polymers: $ 55,000
JCATI Funds Over 1.2 Million in Grants
Each year, the Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation awards between $ 1.2 million and $ 1.3 million in short-term funding. The goal of the grants is to help Washington companies with technology roadblocks get past them through collaboration with a research partner from one of the state’ s public universities.
To apply, go online at jcati. org / funding and download a request for proposals. The next round of project funding will be awarded in July 1, 2019, and proposals will be due in early March of next year. The awards range from $ 50,000 to $ 100,000 and must be spent within 12 months. Industry partners must provide in-kind support.
The grants are intended to help companies advance their business within Washington State. In their applications, partners must outline a plan for how they will incorporate the research findings.
The funds are to be used to help transfer technological innovations from the academic world into industry. The grants are not meant to be used for basic research and development.
The academic partners must be from a public university in Washington. JCATI can help companies find academic partners for specific projects.
Grants for the 2018-19 cycle are to be announced in late June and aren’ t available as this issue goes to press. Here is a list of the 2017 JCATI grants:
“ The Effectiveness of an Immersive Operator Control Station to Enhance Situation Awareness”-- UW and Esterline Corp.: $ 99,442
“ Phased Array Beamformers and Low-noise Power Management Systems for Future System-on-Chip Application”-- WSU and the Boeing Co.: $ 80,000
“ Detection of Incipient Heat Damage in Composite Materials”-- UW and GT Engineering: $ 91,200
“ Autonomous Warehouse Physical Inventory Using Multiple Quadrotors”-- UW and Fizikl: $ 99,127
“ UAV Operations in GPS Denied Skies”-- UW and Hood Technology / Sagetech / Insitu / ANPC: $ 87,223
“ Camera Self- Calibration for Drone Autopilot”-- UW and Robodub: $ 57,675
“ Printed Flexible Thermocouple Arrays for Improved Aerospace Safety Monitoring and Manufacturing”-- UW
and Boeing: $ 93,417
“ Scalable Formulation of Aerospace Interior Resins”
-- WWU and Zodiac:
$ 88,878
“ Design and Processing Tools for Advanced Automated Fiber Placement Technology”-- UW and
Electroimpact: $ 99,999
“ Reducing Flagging and Fraying in Composite Sandwich Panel Machining”-- WWU and Zodiac Aerospace: $ 78,928
“ Lightweight High- Performance Polymers for Aerospace Interiors”-- WSU and Ultra Polymers: $ 55,000
“ Precision Aerial Delivery via Low-weight, Low-cost UAS”-- WSU and Applewhite Aero: $ 79,441
“ A Gummy Electrolyte with Damage-Tolerance and Therma-Protection Capabilities for Safer Li-ion Batteries”-- WSU and UniEnergy Technologies:
$ 94,457
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