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MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 1, 1994

Foss NIRSystems, Inc.

Laurel

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Near Infrared Spectrophotometry Applications

Principal Investigator:

Nam Sun
 
Wang
Associate Professor

Technologies:

Robotics

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 1, 1994

Science & Technology Research, Inc.

Fulton

 | 

Howard

 County

Project:

Bicycle Direct Drive

Principal Investigator:

Vjekoslav
 
Pavlin

Technologies:

Fluid Mechanics / Hydrodynamics

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 1, 1994

Hyrock Aquaculture Farm, Inc.

Princess Anne

 | 

Somerset

 County

Project:

Growing Oysters in Finfish Production Ponds

Principal Investigator:

Donald
 
Meritt
Principal Agent

Technologies:

Aquaculture

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 1, 1994

Fleetpro, Inc.

Baltimore

 | 

Baltimore

 County

Project:

Training for Vehicle Inspection

Principal Investigator:

Gary
 
Rosencrans

Technologies:

FleetPro is a vehicle maintenance company that services a wide range of fleet vehicles in the Mid-Atlantic area. The company currently services approximately 14,000 vehicles and over 300 fleets.

Fleetpro’s current customers range from commercial/industrial fleets to municipal, local, state and federal government vehicles. These customers maintain a variety of equipment, including both on and off-road vehicles that run on everything from traditional fuels to more eco-friendly sources.

Fleetpro offers a variety of vehicle services on-site and off-hours, including Preventative Maintenance and Inspection (PMI), Full Maintenance and Fleet Audits. The company’s main goal is to provide customers with top-notch service and information with as little interruption to the customer’s schedule as possible.

Since completing the MIPS projects, FleetPro has increased its revenue by 900 percent, from around $1 million in revenue at the start of the project, to $9 million today. To date, Fleetpro has successfully trained and certified over 400 people.

The five-part training series covers the following vehicle inspection related federal and state regulations and standards:

•  Federal Highway Administrations (FHWA) Appendix“G,” Minimum Periodic Inspection Standards,
•  State of Maryland, Code of Maryland RegulationsCOMAR 11.22, Preventative Maintenance Program,
•  Federal Highway 393, Parts and AccessoriesNecessary for Safe Operation,
•  Federal Highway 396.17, Inspection Repair andMaintenance,
•  Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance and Out ofService Recommendation Criteria Part II.

The availability of these training programs has dramatically improved how fleet owners maintain and inspect vehicles to ensure they are meeting all state and federal regulations. The training series was updated by FleetPro between 2007-2010 to reflect new industry and regulatory changes, and is still being used to train technicians today.

Fleetpro has a very comprehensive regulatory and preventative maintenance training program. After training, technicians are able to produce a much more reliable and consistent, standards-based inspection than ever before. This results in safer vehicles and lower costs for fleet operation and maintenance.

MIPS Round 

14

October

 

1994

October 1, 1994

GSE Power Systems, Inc.

Sykesville

 | 

Carroll

 County

Project:

Real Time Reactor Core Simulation

Principal Investigator:

Tulay
 
Adali

Technologies:

Software Development

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 13, 1994

Trevigen, Inc.

Gaithersburg

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Fidelity of Nucleic Acid Reactions

Principal Investigator:

Richard
 
Karpel

Technologies:

Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 13, 1994

AquaMar Industries

Pocomoke City

 | 

Worcester

 County

Project:

Treatment of Intensive Fish Culture Water

Principal Investigator:

Fred
 
Wheaton

Technologies:

Aquaculture

MIPS Round 

14

March

 

1994

March 1, 1994

Ceramic Composites, Inc.

Annapolis

 | 

Anne Arundel

 County

Project:

Process Control for Microwave CVI

Principal Investigator:

Isabel
 
Lloyd

Technologies:

Materials Science

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 1, 1994

Nucletron Corporation

Columbia

 | 

Howard

 County

Project:

Evaluation of Brain Implants

Principal Investigator:

Fishel
 
Liberman

Technologies:

Medical Instrumentation / Equipment

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 15, 1994

GSE Power Systems, Inc.

Sykesville

 | 

Carroll

 County

Project:

Reactor Safety Assessment & Diagnostics

Principal Investigator:

M.
 
Modarres

Technologies:

Software Development

MIPS Round 

14

July

 

1994

July 31, 1994

Freewing Aerial Robotics Corporation

College Station

 | 

out-of-state

 County

Project:

Aircraft Design Optimization

Principal Investigator:

Jewel
 
Barlow
Director of Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel

Technologies:

Aerodynamics / Aerospace Engineering

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 15, 1994

IBG, Inc.

Bethesda

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

ACR-NEMA Data Dictionary

Principal Investigator:

Steven
 
Fritz

Technologies:

Medical Instrumentation / Equipment

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 15, 1994

Clark Construction Company

Bethesda

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Expert System for Construction

Principal Investigator:

William
 
Maloney

Technologies:

Software Development

MIPS Round 

14

October

 

1994

October 1, 1994

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Baltimore

 | 

Baltimore

 County

Project:

Cost and Quality Assessment for Shape Memory Alloys

Principal Investigator:

John
 
Baras
Professor

Technologies:

Computer Aided Design

Reliability

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 120,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation’s net sales for 2016 were $47.2 billion.

Lockheed and MIPS have collaborated on a total of eleven projects. Lockheed and Martin Marietta merged in 1995.

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 15, 1994

Micro Star Company

Jessup

 | 

Howard

 County

Project:

High Performance VLSI Systems

Principal Investigator:

K.J.
 
Liu

Technologies:

Communications

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 15, 1994

Stanley Black and Decker, Inc.

Towson

 | 

Baltimore

 County

Project:

Drill Bit Design

Principal Investigator:

M. Appa
 
Anjanappa
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Technologies:

Mechanical Machinery

Black & Decker has been setting the standard for home improvement products since 1910. With roots in Baltimore, Maryland, the company evolved from a small machine shop that invented the first portable electric drill to a global manufacturing and marketing powerhouse. Black & Decker’s product line now includes a broad variety of products for both commercial and residential use.

Following the successful completion of their project, Black & Decker debuted its new line of Bullet Speed Tip Masonry Drill Bits, which included 29 bits. The annual sales from this product line were estimated to be several million dollars.

The Bullet bits offer customers faster drill speed when compared to other bits, and up to six times more holes per battery charge when using a cordless drill. Patents for the bits were issued to UMBC, and then licensed to Black & Decker.

MIPS Round 

14

August

 

1994

August 15, 1994

Global Outpost, Inc.

Las Cruses

 | 

out-of-state

 County

Project:

Commercial Robotics Service in Orbit

Principal Investigator:

Jackson
 
S. Yang

Technologies:

Robotics

MIPS Round 

13

March

 

1994

March 1, 1994

Hughes Network Systems

Germantown

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Broadcast Internet Access

Principal Investigator:

John
 
Baras
Professor and Chair in Systems Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ISR

Technologies:

Communications

Software Development

Hughes Network Systems LLC (HUGHES) is a global leader in broadband satellite technology and services for home and office. Its flagship high-speed satellite Internet service is HughesNet®, the world’s largest satellite network, with over 1 million residential and business customers across North America and Brazil.

For large enterprises and governments, the company’s HughesON® managed network services provide complete connectivity solutions, employing an optimized mix of satellite and terrestrial technologies. The company’s JUPITER™ System is the world’s most widely deployed High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) platform, operating on more than 20 satellites by leading service providers, delivering a wide range of broadband enterprise, mobility and cellular backhaul applications.

To date, Hughes has shipped more than 5.5 million terminals to customers in over 100 countries, representing an approximately 50 percent market share, and its technology is powering broadband services to aircraft around the world.

With annual revenues of over $1 billion, Hughes’ headquarters are in Germantown, Md., although the company has offices in 11 countries and customers in over 100 countries.

The protocols developed by Baras and Hughes are now called TIA-1008, a standard adopted intact by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

More than 30 papers were published as a result of the MIPS work with Hughes, according to Baras. Hughes has conducted seven MIPS projects with the university.

Falk went on to chair the Internet Research Task Force, which promotes research of importance to the evolution of the future Internet. He has chaired the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)’s working groups on TCP over Satellite, Performance Implications of Link Characteristics, and Datagram Congestion Control Protocol.

The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) annual report on consumer broadband services has ranked HughesNet satellite Internet service first among all major Internet service providers (ISPs) for delivering on advertised performance promises for two consecutive years (2015-2016).

HughesNet was originally launched in 1997 as DirecPC. At the time, it was the first consumer product/service to offer Internet access via satellite. The protocol used for this service (and HughestNet today) was developed through the company’s MIPS projects with the University of Maryland.

Hughes was acquired by EchoStar for $2 billion in 2011.

Over time, we’ve probably generated within the state of Maryland, a large share of our revenue—$1.5 billion a year, with a total of close to $15 billion. About $5 billion of that can be directly credited to the work done through MIPS. We employ 1,500 people here in the state. Most of them are working on businesses related to this technology. MIPS helped develop not just a new product, but a new industry.
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) annual report on consumer broadband services has ranked HughesNet satellite Internet service first among all major Internet service providers (ISPs) for delivering on advertised performance promises for two consecutive years (2015-2016).

MIPS Round 

13

March

 

1994

March 1, 1994

PharmaKinetics Labs, Inc.

Baltimore

 | 

Baltimore City

 County

Project:

Bioanalytical Development and Validation

Principal Investigator:

James
 
Leslie

Technologies:

Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering

MIPS Round 

13

March

 

1994

March 1, 1994

Simulation Technologies Corporation

Potomac

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer

Principal Investigator:

Tien-Mo
 
Shih

Technologies:

Medical Instrumentation / Equipment

MIPS Round 

13

March

 

1994

March 1, 1994

Cyber Technology

Potomac

 | 

Prince George’s

 County

Project:

3D Visualization of imagery

Principal Investigator:

Steven
 
Fritz

Technologies:

Image Processing / Pattern Recognition

Medical Instrumentation / Equipment

MIPS Round 

13

March

 

1994

March 1, 1994

Lean Power Corporation

College Park

 | 

Prince George’s

 County

Project:

Technology for Internal Combustion Engines

Principal Investigator:

Ashwani K.
 
Gupta
Distinguished University Professor

Technologies:

Combustion Engineering / Propulsion

MIPS Round 

13

March

 

1994

March 1, 1994

Ryft Systems (Data Design Corporation)

Gaithersburg

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Video 3-D Mouse

Principal Investigator:

Larry
 
Davis
Professor

Technologies:

Computer Hardware Design

Image Processing / Pattern Recognition

MIPS Round 

13

August

 

1994

August 1, 1994

Techno-Sciences, Inc.

Beltsville

 | 

Prince George’s

 County

Project:

Optical Fiber Sensors

Principal Investigator:

James
 
Sirkis

Technologies:

Aerodynamics / Aerospace Engineering

MIPS Round 

13

March

 

1994

March 1, 1994

Northrop Grumman Corp

Baltimore

 | 

Baltimore

 County

Project:

Agricultural Applications of RF Energy

Principal Investigator:

Charles
 
Mulchi

Technologies:

Agriculture / Poultry Science

Northrop Grumman Corporation offers an extraordinary portfolio of capabilities and technologies that enable the company to deliver innovative systems and solutions for applications that range from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace.

The company’s core competencies address emerging global security challenges in key areas, such as unmanned systems, cybersecurity, C4ISR, and logistics that are critical to the defense of the nation and its allies.