PARTNERING FOR THE WARFIGHTER
small Cambridge, Massachusetts-based technology company that specializes in advancing intelligent chemistry systems. In 2017, DEVCOM CBC T2 created a CRADA so that both parties could work closely together on solving how best to shrink it down to 12.5% of its starting weight. “Te partnership and exchange of ideas with Pendar Technologies has been crucial for advancing the evolution of the portable microscopy technology we origi- nally envisioned,” said Guicheteau. “And it accelerated the timeframe for eventual fielding.”
By taking the system on the road and demonstrating its capabilities and poten- tial, Guicheteau and Tripathi were able
to obtain funding from DOD’s Irregu- lar Warfare Technology Support Center and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. With the money in hand, and after months of hard work, they ended up creating the world’s smallest, most porta- ble automated Raman microscope.
It received good reviews from the user community. Capt. Kyle Hallinan, labora- tory director of the Joint Teater Forensic Analysis Center, said, “We are very excited to implement this technology as it compliments support to forensic science exploitation and force protection. Inside USAFRICOM’s theater exploitation laboratory, our chemists were able to use the technology to provide near real-time
identification of micron-size particles of explosives and drugs in a significantly smaller package than our stationary labo- ratory equipment.”
Guicheteau and Tripathi are now readying the technology for production and antic- ipate delivering the devices to their first customer, the U.S. Army Criminal Inves- tigation Directorate, in early 2024.
MAKING IT WEARABLE Te second-generation Tactical Biological Detector (TACBIO Gen II) was designed by a team of DEVCOM CBC scientists and engineers, led by Aime Goad and Gary Kilper, to be a lightweight, field-portable biological agent detection device. It can
HOW-TO’S OF TACBIO
DEVCOM CBC scientists Aime Goad, center left, and Gary Kilper, center right, show Matt Jones, second from right, and his DEVCOM CBC Technology Transfer staff how to operate the wearable version of the TACBIO. (Photo by Gabriella White, DEVCOM CBC)
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