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A -- MINIGRAND SYSTEM SOL IBD:99-102 DUE 100199 POC David J. Salazar, Industrial Business Development Office; PO Box 1663 MS C334, Los Alamos, NM 87545 ; e-mail: davidj@lanl.gov; (505) 665-6697; fax: (505) 665-6127 E-MAIL: davidj@lanl.gov, davidj@lanl.gov. The University of California, which operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) under contract to the Department of Energy (DOE), solicits interest from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the MiniGRAND system, hereinafter referred to as "Technology". The MiniGRAND instrument family is a family of nondestructive assay instruments that all share a common communications system, external interface, network capability, power supply system, and box. A picture of a MiniGRAND system is shown at the following URL http://www.nis5.lanl.gov/techtransfer.htm#contact . The concept of the MiniGRAND system is that a single system, consisting of a box, power supply, control and communications can be easily "personalized" to operate as any one of a number of different NDA instruments. The personalization is done by combining the base power and control unit with one or two of several different "personality boards." Some of the personality boards that are available are the "Intelligent Shift Register" for neutron multiplicity counting, the 1k Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) for gamma-ray spectroscopy, and the GRAND board which provides scalers for total gamma ray or neutron rates. The general application of the MiniGRAND system is in remote / unattended monitoring. These systems are used to instrument large nuclear facilities to enable multiple different types of nondestructive assay measurements throughout the plant. All of these measurements share common hardware and use a common network. They are all accessible with a single software system. Los Alamos is seeking to transfer this Technology to interested industrial partners on a non-exclusive basis. A single license agreement has been drawn up that will be used in all cases. The commercialized technology will consist of all of all the electronic schematics, layouts, and parts lists necessary to construct the MiniGRAND hardware. Also included will be the executable versions of the firmware for the FPGA chips that are used. Interested organizations must demonstrate prior professional experience in the fields of environmental science and nuclear safeguards technology manufacturing, system integration and maintenance. Evidence of related inventions, products, services and/or publications must be provided. Any organization interested in licensing the above mentioned Technology must respond with a statement of intent describing the organization's technical expertise, manufacturing and marketing capabilities, financial resources (e.g., annual report or corporate resume) and commercial motivation. Those commercial firms who have already licensed nuclear nondestructive assay technology from Los Alamos may refer in their expression of interest to previous disclosures to LANL about their corporate motivation and capabilities, as these are on file. Upon receipt of a licensee applicant statement, LANL may determine whether applicant(s) will be selected for technology transfer negotiations. Interested parties are requested to contact: Mr. David J. Salazar, Industrial Business Development Office; Los Alamos National Lab, PO Box 1663 MS C334, Los Alamos, NM 87545 ; e-mail: davidj@lanl.gov; (505) 665-6697; fax: (505) 665-6127 The deadline to express interest is October 1, 1999. No further considerations for commercialization will be made after that date. Posted 09/14/99 (W-SN380039). (0257)

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