U S DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Science and Technology FOR

							                 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
                            Science and Technology

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                September 30, 2004

            HOMELAND SECURITY SELECTS SMALL BUSINESSES
                 FROM 16 STATES FOR SECOND SBIR AWARDS
           31 Firms to Receive $3.1 million in HSARPA Technology Contracts

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and
Technology division today announced that 31 small businesses, in 16 states, have been
selected for contract negotiations. These firms were chosen by the Homeland Security
Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) from applicants to the Department’s
second Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program solicitation in July 2004.
Participation in the HSARPA SBIR Program is restricted to for-profit small businesses in
the United States with 500 or fewer employees, including all affiliated firms.

“I am pleased to announce this second set of awards with small businesses to develop
innovative technology to help meet the Department’s mission to protect the homeland,”
said Dr. Charles McQueary, Under Secretary, Science and Technology. “We are already
seeing excellent results from our first set of awards in March 2004 and I am confident
that our SBIR program will make great research contributions.”

The 31 firms will receive a total of $3.1 million, with individual firms each receiving up
to $100,000 for Phase I (up to six-months) in one of five technology areas. In Phase I,
they will define the scientific, technical and commercial merit of a particular concept.
Firms, whose concepts prove successful in Phase I, may be invited to apply for a two-
year Phase II award not to exceed $750,000 to further develop the concept, usually to the
prototype stage.

The small businesses selected to enter negotiation for awards are:

Cross-Domain Attack Correlation Technologies
Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC d/b/a SIFT, LLC             Minneapolis, MN
AGNIK, LLC                                                           Columbia, MD
System Detection Inc.                                                New York, NY
PnP Networks, Inc.                                                   Woodland Hills, UT
Decisive Analytics Corporation                                       Arlington, VA

Real-Time Malicious Code Identification
System Detection Inc.                                                New York, NY
Avenda Systems                                                       Los Altos Hills, CA
Cigital, Inc.                                                        Sterling, VA
Solidcore                                                            Palo Alto, CA
Cs3 Inc.                                                             Los Angeles, CA
Alternatives to Chlorine in Municipal Water Purification
Nomadics, Inc.                                                       Stillwater, OK
MIOX Corporation                                                     Albuquerque, NM
Triton Systems, Inc.                                                 Chelmsford, MA
Vortex Corporation                                                   Prescott, AZ
Fractal Systems, Inc.                                                Safety Harbor, FL
SMAHT Ceramics Inc.                                                  Salt Lake City, UT

Wide-Area Toxic industrial Chemical Neutralization
Isotron Corporation                                                  Seattle, WA
Gumbs Associates, Inc.                                               East Brunswick, NJ
Synergistic Advanced Technologies LLC                                Tucson, AZ

Innovative Techniques for Concealed Weapons or Explosive Detection at a Distance
Personnel Protection Technologies LLC                      Wilton, CT
Spire Corporation                                          Bedford, MA
Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc.                          Torrance, CA
WaveBand Corporation                                       Irvine, CA
Pharad, LLC                                                Baltimore, MD
Luna Innovations Incorporated                              Hampton, VA
Picotronix, Inc., d/b/a Picometrix, Inc.                   Ann Arbor, MI

Improved and Innovative Cooling Garments for Emergency Responders
Porticos, Inc.                                           Morrisville, NC
Aspen Systems, Inc.                                      Marlboro, MA
Triton Systems, Inc.                                     Chelmsford, MA
NanoPore Incorporated                                    Albuquerque, NM
Rini Technologies Inc.                                   Orlando, FL

“The small business community is very excited about our SBIR program,” said Tim
Sharp, HSARPA’s SBIR Program Manager. “The small businesses especially like the
features of our program that accelerate technology development and make it easy to work
with the Department.”



The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology division serves as
the primary research and development arm of the Department, utilizing our nation’s
scientific and technological resources to provide federal, state and local officials with the
technology and capabilities to protect the homeland.

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