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News Releases Lab wins prestigious technology transfer awards
January 24, 2011—LANL has received two 2011 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) awards for excellence in Technology Transfer. The highly prestigious award honors scientists and research organizations that successfully advance their technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace.
The Lab was recognized for Satellite Communications, a radio communications system prototype for use on miniature satellites, and for Genie Pro (GENetic Imagery Exploitation), software technology that is a general purpose, interactive, adaptive tool for automatically labeling regions and finding objects (areas of interest) in image data.
The National Nuclear Security Administration issued a news release congratulating LANL, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories on being honored with the award. The three labs received a combined total of five 2011 FLC awards.
For more information, read the NNSA news release.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines