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| | Alma Energy | Hermann Lebit | Principal |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| critical minerals | Alma Energy has a credible path to commercial Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) from Produced Water in the domestic oil patch. We have captured a lithium reservoir and assessing direct lithium extraction technologies for a future pilot project with the aim to demonstrated commerciality. The produced water disposal stream has an average lithium concentration of 135-185 mg/l Li+ with individual wells exceeding 200 mg/l Li+.
The site has a water disposal capacity of >20,000 barrels of water per day. |
| TX |
| | Aum_PS LLC | Jitendra Kumar | Founder & Distinguished Scientist |
Small Business
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Integrated Energy Systems
| Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation / Advanced Energy Storage Systems & Battery Safety | Aum_PS LLC is an advanced R&D and technology commercialization small business backed by over 20 years of specialized technical expertise in next-generation electrochemical energy storage, comprehensive battery safety and abuse-tolerance testing, advanced thermal management, thermal interface materials (TIMs), and manufacturing integration. Founded by a principal investigator with extensive R&D experience executing high-reliability projects for NASA, the FAA, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, ARPA-E, and State of Ohio (OFRN) funding programs, Aum_PS LLC bridges the gap between fundamental laboratory research and scalable, field-deployable commercial solutions.
Core Capabilities & Expertise:
Comprehensive Battery Safety & Abuse Testing: Rigorous safety (thermal, electrical, mechanical, high-G) validation, thermal runaway mitigation, thermal runaway (TR) gas quantification and absorption, abuse-tolerance testing, and failure analysis for high-stress applications.
Advanced Thermal Management & TIMs: Expertise in advanced thermal interface materials (TIMs), heat dissipation strategies, and thermal control architectures that seamlessly scale to high-power energy systems and ruggedized sensors.
Advanced & Solid-State Systems: Deep technical background in solid-state battery architectures, novel cell chemistries, and performance optimization.
Advanced Manufacturing Integration: Expertise in scaling up manufacturing processes, quality control implementation, and transitioning complex electrochemical hardware from benchtop to production.
Partnering Objectives:
Aum_PS LLC is actively seeking to partner with DOE National Laboratories, NASA, the FAA, DoD agencies, and State of Ohio (OFRN) research networks on advanced energy storage, thermal management, and high-power sensor initiatives. Building on a proven track record across defense, aerospace, and federal programs, we provide critical private-sector commercialization support, independent safety validation, abuse testing, and manufacturing scale-up expertise to help research teams successfully translate advanced energy storage technologies into robust, market-ready products. |
| OH |
| | University of Connecticut | Jasna Jankovic | Professor |
Academic
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Analysis and Strategic Programs
| Advanced characterization | We are a university lab that conducts advanced materials characterization (microscopy and spectroscopy) supported by AI. We work with industry and national labs and support their material and process development, optimization, and understanding. We have access to the world leading characterization equipment at the university. |
| CT |
| | Forest Concepts | David Lanning | Vice President |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| | Forest Concepts is a biomass supply chain technology and systems company with more than twenty-five years of experience in the forest, urban, and agricultural biomass feedstock arena. We work throughout the supply chain from sources to the throat of reactors or industrial manufacturing processes. Our engineers actively engage with academic and research communities as well as technical societies.
Our small company is based in HUB zone in Auburn, Washington – just south of Seattle. We provide products and services globally.
Our capabilities are delivered by three overlapping teams. FC Analytics develops biomass characterization methods, laboratory equipment, and mathematical simulations/models that inform design and operation of biomass processing facilities. The FC Biomaterials biomass processing and production unit processes FC or client-supplied raw biomass of all types (woody, herbaceous, other) through our custom milling, screening, and drying equipment systems to produce reactor/conversion-ready industrial and renewable energy feedstocks. The Forest Concepts systems development and professional services team conducts contract research and provides advisory/planning services spanning biomass supply chains from source to reactor and beyond. A key benefit to clients is that we live in both the development and commercial space. Our experienced development team has earned 31 patents across these technology areas.
Our approximately ten full-time team members leverage the expertise of a broad network of universities, labs, and others. More recently, in partnership with a cadre of third-party vendors we have ramped-up equipment manufacturing and fully integrated plug-and-play multi-brand pre-processing systems at pilot through commercial scale.
FC Analytics: Feedstock characterization to deliver engineering data, operational functional characteristics, and other physical/mechanical properties data.
FC Biomass Processing: Our processing facility features its patented Crumbler® size reduction technology, orbital screening and an advanced moving bed dryer, amongst other standard processing equipment. The system can produce a variety of sizes of uniform, flowable particles down to 1mm from high moisture biomass without drying or before drying.
FC Systems Development: We developed an innovative Simulation of Processing Systems for Techno-Economic Analysis (SiPS TEA) software to rapidly analyze multiple processing facility permutations. |
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| | HOPLIT INC | Matthew Paul Palombia Sr. | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| | HOPLIT INC is a Pennsylvania-based technology company developing illuminated network devices that integrate wireless networking capabilities directly into independently functional lighting products. HOPLIT's objective is to transform commonly deployed lighting infrastructure into distributed points of wireless connectivity while preserving the primary illumination function of each device.
The HOPLIT platform is being developed across indoor and outdoor form factors, including table lamps, ceiling-mounted fixtures, wall sconces, landscape lighting, and street-light applications. The architecture is intended to support wireless access-point functionality, distributed and mesh networking, MIMO antenna configurations, local network management, and coordinated deployment of multiple nodes. Outdoor concepts may incorporate solar charging, battery power, and configurations suitable for locations where conventional communications infrastructure is difficult, costly, or impractical to deploy.
HOPLIT is particularly interested in collaboration involving distributed and resilient communications infrastructure, energy and power integration, wireless performance, autonomous systems, sensors and edge devices, emergency and temporary deployments, smart infrastructure, and technologies that could benefit from networking capabilities embedded within widely distributed physical infrastructure.
HOPLIT is seeking opportunities to collaborate with DOE National Laboratories where laboratory-developed technologies, technical expertise, testing capabilities, or intellectual property could complement HOPLIT's platform and accelerate technical validation and commercialization. Potential collaboration areas include RF and antenna performance, mesh-network resilience, cybersecurity, power and thermal management, environmental durability, energy-efficient operation, integration with sensors and autonomous systems, and deployment in resilient energy or communications environments.
HOPLIT can contribute its illumination-integrated wireless infrastructure concept, product architecture, intellectual-property development, commercialization strategy, and potential pathway for incorporating complementary National Laboratory technologies into future commercial products and deployments. |
| PA |
| | BlueFusion Inc. | Ramesh Annavajjala | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Transportation Technologies
| Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response | BlueFusion Inc. is a Massachusetts-based deep-tech startup developing advanced multimodal sensing and edge-AI solutions for critical infrastructure, defense, transportation, and public safety. Our capabilities include RGB/NIR, thermal, event-based imaging, imaging radar, acoustic, inertial, and navigation sensing integrated with FPGA/GPU-based real-time processing, sensor fusion, and AI/ML.
BlueFusion is interested in collaborating with DOE National Laboratories to advance technologies for critical energy infrastructure protection and resilience. We are particularly interested in persistent situational awareness, multimodal threat and anomaly detection, cyber-physical security, and edge AI for monitoring substations, generation facilities, energy storage, transmission/distribution assets, pipelines, and other critical infrastructure.
BlueFusion can provide deployable sensing and edge-computing platforms for integrating laboratory-developed technologies and supporting prototype development, field demonstrations, data collection, verification and validation, and commercialization. Our objective is to combine DOE laboratory innovation with BlueFusion’s sensing, edge AI, and system-integration capabilities to transition technologies into scalable solutions for protecting U.S. critical energy infrastructure. |
| MA |
| | Reality2 | Farida Fotouhi | President |
Small Business
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Analysis and Strategic Programs
| Marketing, web development, messaging strategy, sales support | Reality2 speeds the path to successful commercialization for SBIR awardees, applying TABA funding to maximize impact of messaging strategy and marketing assets from web development, to sales support materials and advertising.
We have worked with recipients of DOE TABA funding for many years, from alternative energy to particle accelerators. We "translate" complex technologies into business value that resonates with target audiences including C-suite decision makers. We integrate AI to develop powerful and impactful tools that drive results.
Tech innovators rely on our 30 years of specialized expertise which they do not have in-house; going "outside" to utilize an experienced, expert resource like ours has many advantages over creating messaging, websites and other marketing assets internally. |
| CA |
| | Project Maldonado | John Noel | Founder and Lead Engineer |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Commercialization of DOE Laboratory Advanced Materials and Technologies for Energy and Critical Infrastructure Applications | Project Maldonado is an engineering technology company focused on translating advanced and federally developed technologies into commercial products for energy, infrastructure, and industrial applications. Our capabilities include engineering design, systems engineering, application development, modeling, prototyping, testing planning, technology maturation, and commercialization strategy.
We are particularly interested in partnering with Sandia National Laboratories and other DOE National Laboratories on technologies involving interlocking metamaterials and metasurfaces, architected materials, advanced manufacturing, vibration mitigation, impact and energy management, structural protection, and infrastructure reliability.
Current development efforts are exploring applications in electric utility infrastructure protection, vibration and seismic protection, modular and rapidly deployable structures, water and filtration systems, data center infrastructure, renewable energy systems, and other critical infrastructure applications. These efforts include development of application specific engineering concepts and planned prototype development and validation.
Project Maldonado is interested in serving as an industry and commercialization partner for TCF CLIMR projects. We are interested in collaborating with National Laboratory researchers on technology maturation, application specific engineering, prototype development, testing and validation, market assessment, demonstration planning, and pathways toward commercial deployment.
We are also interested in identifying additional DOE developed technologies that complement our current engineering portfolio and could be transitioned into commercially viable products through laboratory, university, industry, and small business collaboration. |
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| | MantleIQ | RJ McIntosh | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| AI/ML Subsurface Energy Discovery Intelligence | AI/ML Subsurface Energy Discovery Intelligence; multimodal geological/geophysical data integration; geological knowledge graphs and semantic interoperability; probabilistic prospectivity and uncertainty quantification; geothermal, geologic hydrogen and subsurface resource characterization.” |
| WA |
| | Southwest Research Institute | Nadia Dinyarian | Engineer |
Non-Profit
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| Topic 1: Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation; Topic 2: Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response; Topic 3: Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office | Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is an independent non-profit research institute focusing on applied R&D. Founded in 1947, SwRI's 3,200 staff members perform science and engineering research for commercial clients and partners across many industries on a 1,500-acre facility with over 300 laboratories and office buildings. SwRI offers multidisciplinary contract R&D services in a variety of areas in engineering and the physical sciences, leveraging this diverse expertise to push the boundaries of science and technology. SwRI’s Chemical Engineering and High Reliability Systems Departments offer complementary capabilities to support the development, scale-up, and secure deployment of emerging technologies.
The Chemical Engineering Department has extensive experience developing and scaling chemical processes and advanced energy systems. Our work spans critical minerals, unconventional resources, bioenergy, power-sector applications, and alternative fuels and feedstocks. This includes bioenergy and biomass-derived intermediates, unconventional and waste-derived feedstocks, and conversion pathways such as gasification and other thermochemical processes. As a technology agnostic organization, we provide comprehensive support in process simulation, technology development, techno-economic assessment, and pilot-scale process design and operation.
The High Reliability Systems Department has extensive experience in offensive and defensive embedded cybersecurity, as well as cybersecurity assessments. Our team comprises technical experts with Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certifications and more than 15 years of experience securing systems and networks against cyber-attacks. Our experience spans penetration testing, intrusion detection systems (IDS), design and implementation of secure software over the air (SOTA) and firmware over the air (FOTA) update ecosystems, OT/ICS cybersecurity assessment and research, AI-driven and grid-level cyber-attack modeling, key and certificate management solutions, secure boot, zero-trust architectures, post-quantum cryptography, and reverse engineering.
SwRI is interested in participating as a partner to support the advancement of lab-developed technologies through process scale-up, pilot-scale demonstration, and commercial deployment, and/or to protect and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical OT/ICS systems. |
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| | Mr Hemp House, LLC | Christopher L Penn | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Buildings
| Healthy Building Materials, Industrialized Housing, Building Science & Commercialization | Mr Hemp House® is a veteran-founded U.S. small business building America’s Healthy Home Platform™ through healthy building systems, bio-based materials, industrialized construction, building-performance assessment, and commercialization.
Our ecosystem includes Mr Hemp House®, Healthy Home Assessment, HomeHealthScan™ / Home Health Score™, Gaia™ Building Systems, and emerging factory-produced and rapidly deployable healthy-housing systems.
We are interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories on applied research, field validation, product development, advanced and bio-based materials, building-envelope performance, industrialized construction, manufacturing optimization, digital modeling, AI-enabled building assessment, prototype demonstration, and commercialization.
Gaia™ Building Systems focuses on healthy and bio-based building materials and assemblies, including hemp-lime and related material formats for walls, panels, blocks, and other building applications. We are interested in material-performance testing, moisture and thermal behavior, durability, manufacturing methods, constructability, cost reduction, scale-up, and commercialization pathways.
HomeHealthScan™ / Home Health Score™ provides a digital framework for evaluating residential health and performance factors including indoor air, ventilation, moisture and mold risk, water, materials, household products, and building performance. We are interested in partnerships involving field validation, sensors, analytics, AI, building-performance data, and decision-support tools.
We can contribute as an industry commercialization partner, prototype and demonstration partner, field-validation partner, building-market channel, healthy-materials integrator, software/data collaborator, and pathway to builders, contractors, homeowners, developers, and other end users. |
| FL |
| | HybriMet LLC | Joe Hensel | CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technologies
| | Core Competency: Ultra-high temperature, corrosion-resistant and wear-resistant Metal Matrix Ceramic Composites (MMCs) for extreme molten salt environments.
1. Technology Overview & Capability
HybriMet LLC designs and manufactures proprietary Metal Matrix Ceramic Composites (MMCs) engineered specifically for hard wear surfaces, rotating machinery, bearing assemblies and tank linings operating in extreme environments. Our structural composites are engineered to maintain mechanical integrity, extreme hardness, and dimensional stability at continuous operating temperatures up to 750°C.
2. Technical Specifications & Validated Data
Unlike theoretical material concepts, HybriMet’s composite materials have been empirically validated in active, extreme conditions. We possess existing static corrosion and wear data demonstrating exceptional survivability and low degradation rates in both:
• Chloride Salt Environments (Critical for next-generation Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and industrial thermal processing and storage systems).
• Fluoride Salt Environments (Critical for Gen IV Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) and nuclear fuel manufacturing and recycling loops).
3. Target Component Applications
Our material formulation directly solves the most frequent mechanical failure points in high-temperature liquid metal and salt loops, including:
• High-temperature journal bearings
• Pump foot bearings, shaft wear sleeves and guide bearings
• Dynamic valve seats, seals for flow control applications
• Salt storage tank linings
4. Partnering Objectives
HybriMet LLC is actively seeking to join consortiums or prime proposals for current ARPA-E and DOE Office of Nuclear Energy / Solar Energy Technologies Office / Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation solicitations. We are equipped and flexible to participate as either:
• Subcontractor / Sub-tier Vendor: Providing custom-machined MMC components, bearings, or custom wear-coatings tailored to a prime contractor’s primary system design.
• Joint-Venturer / Co-Prime: Collaborating with national laboratories or system integrators to scale dynamic component testing from benchtop to operational pilot loops. |
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| | TechScale Solutions, LLC | George Roberts | Founder / President |
Small Business
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Analysis and Strategic Programs
| Topic 1 – Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) | TechScale Solutions is an engineering and commercialization consulting firm that helps move advanced energy technologies from laboratory development toward manufacturable, field-deployable products and systems. The firm specializes in the stage where technical feasibility has been demonstrated but significant work remains to reduce risk, define system requirements, scale hardware, develop supply chains, establish manufacturing approaches, validate economics, and prepare for commercial deployment. Capabilities include systems engineering, technology readiness and risk assessment, prototype and pilot-scale design, balance-of-plant integration, design-for-manufacture, vendor and supply-chain development, techno-economic analysis, test planning, commercialization strategy, and technical program management.
TechScale is interested in partnering with DOE National Laboratories on TCF/CLIMR projects where an experienced small-business industry partner can help translate laboratory-developed technology into a commercially relevant product, process, or demonstration. The strongest alignment is with CMEI technology areas involving manufacturing and scale-up for energy applications, industrial competitiveness, critical-mineral processing and recycling, energy generation and power management, advanced transportation and fuels, and battery technologies. TechScale also has relevant experience in hydrogen and fuel-cell systems, electrolyzers, energy storage, flow batteries, carbon capture and conversion, advanced materials, recycling, microgrids, and complex electromechanical systems.
TechScale can contribute an independent industry perspective focused on practical deployment: defining customer and product requirements, identifying scale-up and integration risks, developing commercialization and manufacturing roadmaps, evaluating cost and market drivers, engaging suppliers and potential partners, and supporting prototype, pilot, or field demonstration activities. The objective is to help National Lab teams close the engineering and commercialization gaps between successful laboratory technology and a product that industry can manufacture, finance, deploy, and support. |
| CT |
| | Destructable, Inc. | Cynthia Perez | Facilities Coordinator |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation | Destructable, Inc. is a U.S. based renewable energy decommissioning and materials recovery company with processing operations in Amarillo, TX and Dexter, IA. Destructable mechanically processes end-of-life wind turbine blades and other renewable energy components and converts glassfiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites into recycled material feedstocks for potential use in concrete, composites, additive manufacturing, and other industrial applications.
Destructable is seeking partnerships with DOE National Laboratories to commercialize, scale, demonstrate, and validate qualifying National Lab developed technologies at TRL 4 or above. Areas of particular interest include composite recycling; recovered fiber-upgrading and separation; recycled material processing and characterization; advanced materials and manufacturing; process optimization and automation; and technologies that enable higher-value reuse of end-of-life fiber-reinforced composites.
Destructable can provide commercial quantities of end-of-life wind turbine blade feedstock, industrial preprocessing and size reduction capabilities, operating facilities for pilot demonstration activities, material handling and sample preparation, production of controlled recycled material grades, operational data, and commercialization support. Destructable is also developing downstream pathways for recycled GFRP in concrete, infrastructure, composites, and advanced manufacturing and can support technology validation with prospective end users, research institutions, and commercial partners.
We are particularly interested in serving as an industry commercialization and demonstration partner for National Lab technologies that require representative feedstock, industrial-scale validation, integration into an operating recycling process, product qualification, or a pathway to commercial adoption. |
| TX |
| | C&O PROJECTS LLC | MARCO DAVID CARRASCO | PROJECT MANAGER |
Individual
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| Lab and Pilot Testing Research – Biomass Conversion and Nutrient Recovery | Chemical and Environmental Engineer with extensive experience in industrial project development, alternative fuels and raw materials, energy efficiency, and decarbonization. Founder and President of C&O Projects LLC, a U.S.-based technical advisory company.
Interested in the development of biomass and renewable fuel projects, particularly the use of agricultural, forestry, and industrial residues as alternatives to fossil fuels in energy-intensive industries.
Capabilities include biomass resource and feedstock assessment; sampling and characterization programs; laboratory testing coordination; evaluation of moisture, heating value, ash and chemical composition; biomass preprocessing and handling; supply-chain assessment; mass and energy balances; process integration; technology evaluation; conceptual and feasibility studies; CAPEX/OPEX estimation; financial evaluation; and assessment of CO₂ emissions reduction.
Experience also includes developing industrial decarbonization projects and evaluating alternative materials and fuels from technical, environmental, and economic perspectives. Interested in partnerships with biomass suppliers, technology providers, laboratories, engineering companies, industrial operators, and investors to develop projects from initial assessment through feasibility and implementation. |
| FL |
| | Bridge Effect LLC | Mickey Swortzel | President |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| | Bridge Effect works with emerging technology companies and technical teams to move promising technologies toward commercial adoption. We help teams identify the strongest market opportunities, understand customer needs, validate the value proposition, develop commercialization and go-to-market strategies, and determine the technical and commercial milestones needed to attract customers, partners and capital.
We bring both an operating and investor perspective. Our experience includes scaling and exiting a technology company, evaluating early-stage companies for venture investment, and advising technical founders on commercialization and investment readiness. We have worked across advanced materials, manufacturing, electrification, embedded controls, AI, advanced mobility and other engineering-intensive technologies.
Bridge Effect is interested in partnering with National Labs and technical teams that need additional commercial expertise alongside their scientific and engineering capabilities. We can support market and customer discovery, commercialization strategy, business model development, industry and strategic partner identification, go-to-market planning, capital strategy and investment readiness. Our focus is helping teams connect technical capabilities with real customer needs and build a credible path from technology to market. |
| IN |
| | My Favorite Artist Headphones Inc | Anthony Palmer | CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| Connected mobility, AI-enabled audio, advanced manufacturing, vehicle integration, and technology commercialization | My Favorite Artist Headphones Inc. (MFAH) is a small technology business developing connected consumer products, AI-enabled audio and voice systems, digital mobility platforms, and commercialization pathways for advanced technologies.
MFAH’s capabilities and interests include consumer audio technology, connected hardware and software, AI-assisted voice experiences, product design and development, electronics manufacturing, advanced materials and components, technology licensing, prototyping, testing, demonstration, market deployment, and public-private commercialization partnerships.
MFAH Navigator is the company’s connected navigation and mobility platform. Its development areas include AI-assisted navigation and driver services, commercial fleet and Truck Mode tools, EV- and charging-aware mobility services, emergency and roadside information, parking and local discovery, real-time road intelligence, digital cockpit and infotainment integration, and integration with connected and software-defined vehicles.
MFAH seeks collaboration with DOE National Laboratories and other qualified partners for technology assessment, licensing, co-development, validation, prototyping, testing, demonstration, advanced manufacturing, vehicle and mobility integration, and commercialization. Areas of particular interest include connected transportation, vehicle electronics, energy-efficient mobility, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, sensors, human-machine interfaces, audio and voice systems, manufacturing processes, and resilient mobility infrastructure.
MFAH can contribute product concepts, commercialization planning, consumer-market and mobility use cases, platform-integration pathways, brand development, deployment planning, and potential pathways for incorporating laboratory technologies into connected consumer products, MFAH Navigator, and future vehicle platforms. |
| WY |
| | Ousia Labs | David Ross | CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| | I have designed, patented, and mass manufactured modular supercritical fluid brayton cycle systems. One application is connecting to heat source and using supercritical fluid phase changes and fluid control spins thousands of turbines to generate power which can be put directly back to offset or stored in battery for later use. Looking for funding to ramp up production and go to market. |
| CO |
| | Liberty Ion LLC | Evan M. Erickson | CEO & Founder |
Small Business
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Technology Commercialization
| | Let Liberty Ion handle your grant application for you! Liberty Ion helps applicants draft grant proposals from start to finish, including building the right team, shaping a strong project narrative, developing a credible and competitive budget, calculating fringe and indirect rates, aligning key personnel, and handling the required application paperwork.
The firm’s founder is a chemistry PhD that previously founded and funded a battery cathode manufacturing company as CEO through DOE and DOD grants & a Series A fundraise, leading the company for nearly five years, bringing direct experience in material production, scale-up, and commercialization. Today, Liberty Ion works with technology companies to secure nondilutive funding, strengthen market positioning, and move projects towards completion. We have fundamental technical experience in chemicals, fuel cells, electrocatalysis, lithium ion batteries, materials science along with the practicality of having founded and successfully exited a technology company, with a suite of proposal writers, project managers and technical experts to help get your proposal across the finish line in as painless way as possible. Let Liberty Ion take care of the annoying grant writing for you, so your team can focus on mission!
Schedule a free, no obligation meeting to discuss how Liberty Ion can help you:
https://calendly.com/d/cyhh-k3f-xw9/liberty-ion-introduction |
| TX |
| | RockeTruck Inc. dba Bandgap Technologies | Mike Simon | President & CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO)
| Topic 1: Office of Critical Materials & Energy Innovation | RockeTruck, doing business as Bandgap Technologies, designs and manufactures next-generation power conversion products using wide bandgap semiconductors (SiC and GaN), which address the world's growing and increasingly complex electric power needs, including demands created by new AI data centers, electric vehicle charging facilities, and energy-intensive defense and aerospace systems. Our proprietary multi-use hardware/software platform enables a single architecture to serve as an inverter, rectifier, DC-DC converter, or solid-state transformer — dramatically reducing time-to-market and development cost while addressing a $45B power electronics market (2030 projection). The advantages of the wide bandgap semiconductors used in our products include higher breakdown voltage, faster switching speed, and greater thermal tolerance as compared with conventional silicon transistors. These attributes translate into numerous practical advantages such as ability to handle higher voltage applications, reduced size and weight, and lower overall cost of ownership. Specific products we require assistance in commercializing include half-bridge power modules using SiC and GaN, which use latest generation bare dies to achieve higher power density and/or operate at higher voltages than competing power module products. |
| CA |
| | Curio Solutions, LLC | Alex Wheeler | Prn Nuclear Engineer |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| | Curio is a pioneering nuclear innovation company tackling one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century: the management of nuclear waste. At the heart of our mission is NuCycle, an advanced nuclear recycling technology designed to significantly reduce the nation’s accumulated burden of used nuclear fuel. Beyond simply reducing waste, NuCycle offers the potential to unlock valuable new materials, including radioisotopes for vital applications like Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) and even advanced fuel forms for plutonium-bearing fuels (including in our molten chloride HOPE reactor), driving innovation and creating a circular economy within the nuclear industry. |
| DC |
| | ReVolt Battery Technology Corp | Jan Naidu | CTO |
Small Business
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Transportation Technologies
| Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) | **ReVolt Battery Technology Corporation (ReVolt)** is a technology company focused on developing innovative software and AI-enabled solutions for **energy-efficient transportation systems serving defense, government, and commercial markets**. ReVolt develops advanced **Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms** combining transportation analytics, energy modeling, artificial intelligence, optimization, and data-driven decision support to improve transportation efficiency, reliability, resilience, and operational performance.
ReVolt's technology capabilities span data integration, modeling and simulation, AI/ML development, optimization, SaaS engineering, validation, and deployment. Key areas include **vehicle and fleet energy optimization, transportation electrification, predictive analytics, intelligent routing and scheduling, charging optimization, energy-demand forecasting, and operational decision support**.
ReVolt develops transportation energy models integrating vehicle characteristics, roadway and route conditions, weather, operating schedules, and auxiliary energy requirements to model and optimize real-world energy consumption. These capabilities can support battery-electric, conventional, hybrid, and emerging vehicle technologies.
For **defense applications**, ReVolt is interested in energy-aware fleet operations, mission and logistics planning, vehicle readiness, resilient transportation, predictive maintenance, route optimization, and AI-enabled decision support. ReVolt's SaaS platform can provide the software and analytics layer through which technologies developed by national laboratories, universities, defense organizations, and industry can be integrated into operational solutions.
For **commercial and public-sector markets**, ReVolt develops scalable solutions for transit, freight, logistics, fleet management, and transportation agencies seeking to reduce energy consumption and operating costs while improving fleet utilization.
ReVolt seeks partnerships with **national laboratories, research institutions, defense organizations, universities, and industry** to combine emerging technologies with its transportation SaaS capabilities and transition research into **deployable products for defense and commercial markets**. |
| TX |
| | JIS Energy LLC | Jack Souweha | Founder & Principal Engineer |
Small Business
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| Technoeconomic analysis and dispatch optimization for CHP, thermal energy storage, battery storage, chillers, geothermal and microgrids; seeking lab partner for commercialization, validation and cost share. | JIS Energy LLC is a small business that develops and operates CogenS, a commercial technoeconomic analysis and optimization platform for distributed energy systems. We are seeking a National Laboratory partner for the FY26+FY27 TCF Technology Specific lab call, and can provide both cost share and a route to market for lab-developed technology.
WHAT THE PLATFORM DOES
CogenS sizes and dispatches multi-technology energy systems and returns full technical, economic and emissions results. Technologies covered: combined heat and power (CHP), battery energy storage (BESS), chillers and cooling towers, boilers, thermal energy storage (TES), geothermal and ground-source heat pumps, heat-pump and conventional water heating, EV charging, and islanded or grid-connected microgrids.
Sizing and dispatch are co-optimized in a single linear/mixed-integer program at 15, 20, 30 or 60-minute resolution, against real utility tariff structures: time-of-use energy, monthly demand charges, fixed charges, tiered rates, fuel and makeup-water costs, and CO2 pricing. Outputs include NPV, IRR, simple and discounted payback, benefit-cost ratio, total cost of ownership, levelized cost and emissions, plus Energy-as-a-Service structures (PPA, concession, tolling, shared savings).
WHAT WE BRING TO A LAB PARTNERSHIP
1. Commercialization route. CogenS is deployed today with paying customers. A lab-developed model, control method or optimization algorithm integrated into the platform reaches practicing engineers on release, rather than remaining a research artifact.
2. Cost share. We can contribute in-kind cost share as platform licenses, engineering labor, compute and validation datasets.
3. Validation. We maintain harnesses that benchmark our engines against EnergyPlus, SAM and other reference tools, and can validate lab methods against commercial baselines and measured project data.
4. Deployment data and market pull. Live customer projects across commercial, institutional, industrial and district-energy settings - load profiles, tariffs, equipment selections - plus customers who can speak to market need.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Buildings and industrial decision support; grid-interactive and microgrid dispatch; thermal and electrical storage control; geothermal technoeconomics; and controls or optimization methods that need a commercial delivery vehicle.
Contact: Jack Souweha, P.E., Founder - jack@jisenergy.com - www.jisenergy.com |
| TX |
| | Helios X, LLC | Dallin Watts | Managing Partner |
Small Business
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Geothermal
| Topic 3 - Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office (HGEO): Geothermal exploration and characterization | Helios X, LLC is developing a geothermal resource on privately held, deeded ranchland in the eastern Great Basin (Nevada). The resource is USGS-identified and has been independently assessed at reconnaissance level; we treat it as unconfirmed until drilled. Springs and wells on the property are accessible for sampling, and landowner coordination is in hand.
Our need is an independent temperature and geochemical characterization: a structured review of the existing public record (federal and state geothermal assessments, historical water chemistry, geophysics), and advanced multicomponent geothermometry on newly collected fluid samples from on-property springs and wells to estimate deep reservoir temperature and last-equilibration conditions. A screen of the same fluids for critical-mineral and rare-earth content would strengthen the effort where consistent with scope.
We seek a national laboratory partner with demonstrated expertise in multicomponent geothermometry, geothermal fluid geochemistry, and Basin & Range resource characterization. The scope is sized to a single award, and the field program can execute in the fall 2026 sampling season. Private land, existing site access, and landowner coordination remove the siting friction that commonly delays field programs on federal ground. |
| NV |
| | Prometheus Critical Materials & Energy Technologies | Chandrashekhar Sonwane | CTO |
Small Business
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Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks
| | Reaction Engineering
Catalysis
Websites:
www.spaceer.org and Pcmet.org |
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