The Department of Commerce’s (NIST) https://www.nist.gov has awarded nearly $54 million in grants for 13 high impact projects for R&D and to provide testbeds for pandemic response.
NIST will work with more than 80 partners including research universities, non-profits, and small and large manufacturers. The awardee will use advanced manufacturing technologies to produce PPEs, medical equipment, to create new, sustainable domestic supply chains, produce novel COVID-19 tests, provide shared-access equipment and facilities, produce health alert systems, and train and develop the next gen manufacturing workforce.
Some of the projects include:
- Aim Photonics (SUNY Polytechnic Institute Research Foundation}, Albany, N,Y received $4,974,630 to produce the first inexpensive, disposable point-of-care sensors. The sensors will use integrated photonics to test for coronavirus and emerging viruses.
- Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute (ARM), Pittsburgh PA received $4,933,561 to create the Robotics and Automation Decision framework for Agility and Resilience (RADAR) to develop manufacturing process to support coronavirus response
- RAPID Institute (American Institute of Chemical Engineers), N.Y. received $4,638,881 to develop a testbed for domestic manufacturing of critical pharmaceutical ingredients in the underserved Appalachian region.
- MxD (UI Labs), Chicago Illinois received $2,369,302 to create a privacy protecting local health alert system to conduct contact tracing and data analysis using blockchain technology, to map linkages between disease detection and resulting supply chain demand estimates, and to translate real time public health indicators into future demand signals to develop predictive capabilities for supply chain needs.
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