The FLC awards are ranked as some of the most prestigious honors in the technology transfer field and are given as a symbol of well-deserved recognition for phenomenal technological efforts.
This nationwide network of federal laboratories provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking the laboratories' mission technologies and expertise with the marketplace.
FLC Award Recipients
2019
Atomic Armor: Notable Technology Development: Mid-Continent Region
INSIGHT: Excellence in Technology Transfer: Mid-Continent Region
Small Modular Nuclear Reactor – MicroReactor: Notable Technology Development: Mid-Continent Region
2017
dfnWorks Software Suite Honorees: Carl Gable, Jeremy Harrod, Jeffrey Hyman, Satish Karra, Nathan Knapp, Nataliia Makedonska, Scott Painter-Notable Technology Development: Mid-Continent Region
EDGE Bioinformatics: Notable Technology Development: Mid-Continent Region
PathScan: Security Analytics Software for Network Attack Detection: Excellence in Technology Transfer: Mid-Continent Region Award Program
Pulmonary Lung Model (PuLMo): Notable Technology Development: Mid-Continent Region Award Program
2016
Pulmonary Lung Model (PuLMo) Notable Technology Development 2016
PathScan: Security Analytics Software for Network Attack Detection Excellence in Technology Transfer 2016
Quantum Random Number Generator and Key Management System for Secure Communications: Notable Technology Development: Mid-Continent Region
2015
Belinda Snyder: Led the way in developing and implementing a variety of innovative and successful technology transfer methods that also stimulated collaboration, fostered community involvement, and helped small businesses succeed not only in New Mexico, but across the United States.
Quantum Random Number Generator and Key Management System for Secure Communications - Notable Technology Development
Interagency Partnership
2014
CASA Grande Code for Nuclear Power Plant Safety - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Muon Scattering Tomography - Excellence in Technology Transfer
MiniMAX: A Revolutionary X-ray Imaging System - Notable Technology Development
Ultrascale Visualization Climate Data Analysis Tools - Outstanding Partnership
New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program - State and Local Government Collaboration
Hazardous Device Utility Tools - Bomb Disposal - Excellence in Technology Transfer
2013
Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging for Detecting Breast Microcalcifications - Notable Technology Development
2012
CO2ETM Enabled Geothermal Energy - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Hazardous Device Utility Tools - Notable Technology Development
INFICOMM: wireless monitoring technology for oil and gas wells - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Recycling of Strontium-82 for use in medical diagnostic imaging - Excellence in Technology Transfer
2011
The Commercialization of the Transgenic Expression of a Plant Growth Compound - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Movies of eXtreme Imaging Experiments (MOXIE) - Notable Technology Development
Adaptive radio technology for satellite communications - Excellence in Technology Transfer
GeniePro (GENetic Imagery Exploitation) - Excellence in Technology Transfer
State and Local Economic Development
2010
Kathleen McDonald - Regional Service
Reagent-less Optical Biosensor (ROB) - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Superluminal RADAR System - Notable Technology Development
ENDURE™ SCR catalyst - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Hyperion Power Module - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Interagency Partnership
2009
David Foster: Outstanding STEM Mentorship
FEHM: Finite Element Heat and Mass - Notable Technology Development
NM Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program - Outstanding Partnership
Portable Acoustic Flow Cytometer - Excellence in Technology Transfer
2008
Take-Off™: Enhancing Plants with a Natural Metabolite - Notable Technology Development
Attila - Excellence in Technology Transfer
High-Definition Laser Scanner for Surveying - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Second-Generation High Temperature Superconducting Wire - Excellence in Technology Transfer
2007
RaveGrid: Raster-to-Vector Graphics for Image Data - Notable Technology Development
Outstanding Achievement
New Mexico Center for Isotopes in Medicine - Outstanding Partnership
MESA: Measuring Enzyme-Substrate Affinities - Excellence in Technology Transfer
2006
Hands Off Sampler Gun - Outstanding Technology Development
Underground Radio - Outstanding Technology Development
Overall Achievement
PowerFactoRE - Excellence in Technology Transfer
2005
J. Susan Sprake: Award of Appreciation
Nox HyCat: A New Catalytic System for Diesel Engines - Outstanding Technology Development
10-Gigabit Ethernet Adapter - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Green Destiny and mpiBLAST: Hardware and Software for Super Efficient Computing - Excellence in Technology Transfer
SOLVE/RESOLVE: Automated Software for Protein Research - Excellence in Technology Transfer
2004
Dr. Benjamin Warner: Distinguished Service
FIRETEC: A Physics-Based Wildfire Model - Outstanding Technology Development
Reagentless Optical Biosensor - Outstanding Technology Development
J. Susan Sprake: Special Appreciation
2003
Compact, Self Stabilizing, Nuclear Power Source - Technology Development
Light Weight Body and Parcel Protection Armor - Technology Development
1996
Recognizing efforts to make supercomputing resources of Los Alamos available to U.S.-owned businesses - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Development of laser and non-laser-based biomedical devices - Excellence in Technology Transfer
1994
In recognition of a CRADA with General Motors for an environmentally conscious manufacturing technology Excellence in Technology Transfer
1993
Transfer of KIVA software to US engine manufacturers such as General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Transfer of resonant ultrasound inspection technology - Excellence in Technology Transfer
1992
Transfer of the optical high-acidity sensor technology - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Transfer of rapid DNA sequencing technology - Excellence in Technology Transfer
1990
Development and transfer of Date Tree common file system - Excellence in Technology Transfer
1989
Transfer of quantitative texture measurements in predicting metal deformation - Excellence in Technology Transfer
1988
Transfer of laser angioplasty materials and instrumentation technology - Excellence in Technology Transfer
Established cooperative program on high-temperature superconductivity research and development - Excellence in Technology Transfer
1987
Development and transfer of "microballoon optical pin" for measuring strong pressure pulses - Excellence in Technology Transfer
1986
Transfer of an optical keratoplasty device - Excellence in Technology Transfer
1984
Transfer of radiation detection instrumentation - Excellence in Technology Transfer