Government Funding
Contract Laboratory Profile: Indesign LLC
October 21, 2009 4:20 am | Articles | CommentsIndesign provides electronic product design services. This includes full turn-key product development starting with concept development, continuing through detailed product design and prototyping, and finishing with production support. Indesign develops products for clients in a wide range of markets: medical, military, consumer, industrial, communications, and computer peripherals.
The Need for Helping Hands
October 21, 2009 4:15 am | Articles | CommentsI never used to be one to ask for help. When I was younger I was always a do-it-myself kind of girl, even if the task was unachievable or stretched me too thin. Who doesn’t want to be superwoman? Right?
A Galaxy of Spinoffs
September 29, 2009 9:32 am | by Paul Livingstone | Articles | CommentsThrough partnerships and spinoffs, NASA engineers advances in medicine, safety, and deep space observation.
Another Tool in the Toolbox
September 29, 2009 9:18 am | by Larisa Brass, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Articles | CommentsPrivate funding for technology maturation will help enable better commercialization of governmental scientific research. However compelling the technology, a gap often exists between government-funded research and its transfer to the marketplace. As a research project nears completion, federal dollars often dry up before an invention has progressed enough to spin out as a commercial product. Enter technology maturation funds, the means by which many promising technologies make needed advances toward becoming commercial products.
2009 Global R & D Funding Forecast Update
June 9, 2009 9:32 am | Articles | CommentsA recession, stimulus, new administration, continuing resolutions, and globalization effects have altered the picture of R&D spending from just six months ago.
Tough Times Ahead for Government Labs
November 30, 2008 7:00 pm | by Tim Studt | Articles | CommentsThe upcoming changes in government leadership will create temporary issues in the government’s network of research labs until new strategies are defined and funded.
Economic Forces Continue to Drive Up Lab Construction Costs
June 19, 2008 5:57 am | by Tim Studt | Articles | CommentsNew construction lab costs are expected to increase from 3% to 10% in the U.S. in 2008, depending upon local market conditions.
Government and Industrial R & D Face Challenges
January 31, 2008 7:00 pm | by Jules Duga, PhD, Senior Research Scientist; Martin Grueber, Senior Research Scientist; Battelle, Columbus, Ohio. Tim Studt, Editor in Chief, R&D Magazine | Articles | CommentsAn internal Battelle survey draws upon the views and experiences of staff who are closely involved with the conduct of research that supports a wide range of government and industrial clients.
Slowing Economy Dampens 2008 R & D Spending
January 31, 2008 7:00 pm | by Jules Duga, PhD, Senior Research Scientist; Martin Grueber, Senior Research Scientist; Battelle, Columbus, Ohio. Tim Studt, Editor in Chief, R&D Magazine | Articles | CommentsThe U.S. research and development environment is being shaped in 2008 by a myriad of economic, political, and technical factors.
FY2008 Federal R & D Funding: Juggling Budgetary and Political Priorities
January 31, 2008 7:00 pm | Articles | CommentsEarly budgetary plans stemming from the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI), America COMPETES Act, and additional Congressional initiatives failed to materialize on the grand scale as announced and planned due to budgetary constraints, shifting priorities, and threatened vetoes
Challenges and Opportunities in the World of Independent Research
December 10, 2007 9:27 am | by Tim Studt | Articles | CommentsFor the ninth consecutive year, the editors of R&D Magazine interviewed the chief executive officers of the leading independent research and development laboratories in North America to determine the issues and challenges confronting these long-standing supporters of R&D. The following is a summary of their responses to a variety of questions addressing their current and future operations.
Government CEO Roundtable: National Labs Speak Out on the State of Government Research
December 10, 2007 9:24 am | by Martha Walz | Articles | CommentsThe 9th Annual R&D Magazine Government CEO Roundtable took place on Oct 18 at Chicago's Navy Pier. Participating in this year's discussion were representatives from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Ill., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Calif., Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), N.M., NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC), Cleveland, Ohio, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, Md., and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tenn.
R & D Outsourcing Becomes More Strategic
June 18, 2007 12:02 pm | by Tim Studt | Articles | CommentsOutsourcing of various aspects of an organization's business functions has been happening for decades. In recent years, much of this work has been in the information technology (IT) area, although product development work and actual R&D for manufacturers has been working its way up the "food chain" as well, as suppliers and focused companies provide lower cost, faster response solutions to the sponsoring organizations' product needs.
The State of Global R & D
September 27, 2005 10:08 am | Articles | CommentsThe effects of outsourcing, insourcing, and shifting political landscapes will bolster global R&D efforts to an anticipated all time high of US$1 trillion in 2006.
