Mid-Atlantic Region: Environmental Technology Development

Advanced Manufacturing Office -- The Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) is the lead government program working to develop and deploy new, energy-efficient technologies for manufacturing. (AMO was formerly known as the Industrial Technologies Program.)

Advanced Technology Program (National Institute of Standards and Technology-NIST) -- Partnership between government and private industry to accelerate the development of high-risk technologies that promise significant commercial payoffs and widespread benefits for the economy.

Environmental Technology Verification Program (ETV) -- U.S. EPA program created to accelerate the entrance of new environmental technologies into the domestic and international marketplace. Verifies commercial-ready, private sector technologies through 12 pilot programs.

EPA Vendor and Developer Support -- EPA's searchable vendor directory with limited vendor information, created formerly as the REACH IT System to compile and share information on treatment and characterization technologies for a range of contaminant types and media.

Extramural Research: STAR, P3, GRO Grants and Fellowships, & SBIR Programs -- Supporting high quality research by the nation's leading scientists and engineers to improve EPA's scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues. Supports leading edge extramural research in exposure, effects, risk assessment, and risk management through competitions for STAR grants, fellowships, and research contracts under the Small Business Innovative Research Program.

Global Trade & Technology Network (GTN) -- U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) program to help transfer U.S. technologies and services to address global development problems. Development needs in a country are matched with U.S. firms equipped to provide the appropriate technological solutions. Registration for U.S. companies is free of charge.

Mid-Atlantic Region Business Assistance Center -- Assists owners of small- to medium-sized businesses in complying with the confusing array of environmental requirements. Provides services in the areas of compliance assistance, small business advocacy, pollution prevention, and environmental technology development.

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) -- Awards grants for research and development of pollution control technologies to small high-technology firms.

Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program -- U.S. EPA program that encourages the development and implementation of innovative treatment for hazardous waste site remediation, and monitoring and measurement.

Technology Innovation Program -- The Technology Innovation Program (TIP) supports, promotes, and accelerates innovation in the U.S. through high-risk, high-reward research in areas of critical national need. TIP has the agility and flexibility to make targeted investments in transformational R&D that will ensure our nation's future through sustained technological leadership.

U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) -- Focuses on the advancement of basic peer-reviewed scientific research and the implementation of cost-effective, common sense technology.

*Please see Funding Sources subpage for links to programs providing financial assistance for environmental technology development projects.

State

Delaware - District of Columbia - Maryland - Pennsylvania - Virginia - West Virginia

Delaware

Delaware Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) -- Nationwide network of not-for-profit centers that provide small- and medium-sized manufacturers with technology transfer and acquisition--assessment, problem solving, testing facilities, access to federal technologies.

Delaware State University

Delaware Technical and Community College

University of Delaware

District of Columbia

There are no web sites available at this time.

Maryland

Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH) -- Gateway to research, technical assistance, and resources for industry at the University of Maryland. Includes information on Technology Extension Service, Technology Advancement Program, Maryland Industrial Partnerships, Technology Initiatives, and Bioprocess Scale-up Facility.

Pennsylvania

Ben Franklin Technology Partners -- Statewide network that fosters innovation to stimulate Pennsylvania's economic growth and prosperity. Operating regionally with four centers strategically located throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Ben Franklin Technology Partners brings together the best of Pennsylvania's people, ideas, and technology to serve as a catalyst for advancing the state's knowledge-based economy.

Innovation Philadelphia -- Innovation Philadelphia is a public/private partnership supported by the City of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The mission is to enhance the global innovation economy of Philadelphia through technological leadership. The web site includes information on how to register your business, locate resources, commercialize technology, find funding, develop your workforce, and review initiatives.

NewPA.com -- The mission of NewPA.com is to foster opportunities for businesses and communities to succeed and thrive in a global economy. They provide financial and technical assistance opportunities and funding programs.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Technology Clearinghouse -- Pennsylvania DEP's Technology Clearinghouse provides assistance and information about research, development, funding, implementation, and marketing of innovative technologies associated with energy efficiency, pollution prevention, treatment, and remediation. Subjects include Technology Links, Technology Partnerships, Technology Database, Funding Opportunities, and Success Stories.

Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers -- The Pennsylvania SBDCs help businesses locate sources of financing for environmental technology commercialization and development, assist in the preparation of state and federal grant and loan applications, and help firms design, construct, and test products with commercial potential through the Product Development Center located at the Bucknell University SBDC. The web site provides links to the Product Development Center as well as the 16 other SBDCs located throughout the state.

Pittsburgh Technology Council -- Online source for newest information on business and technology in the Pittsburgh region.

Virginia

GENEDGE ALLIANCE -- Creates and maintains industrial and manufacturing jobs by helping Virginia industries compete.

Manufacturing Technology Center (MTC) (southwestern Virginia) -- Nonprofit organization that assists manufacturers in southwestern Virginia to become competitive and profitable in the world market.

Old Dominion University Business Gateway -- ODU Business Gateway providing a dedicated resource to companies large and small, not-for-profit organizations, military commands, and entrepreneurs to help solve business problems, expand capabilities, and create new ventures. ODU Business Gateway offers services matched to market needs, including business and entrepreneurial consulting and services, advanced manufacturing and technology solutions, training and professional development, and veterans business outreach and procurement assistance.

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Innovative Technology -- Encourages participation in demonstration programs, explores opportunities to join with other states in accepting new technologies, enhances awareness of new technologies by users/regulators, connecting technology developers and entrepreneurs to support business and technical resources, and performs outreach and helps companies to showcase new environmental technologies.

Virginia Tech Office of Economic Development -- Provides assistance to early-stage, technology-based companies in southwest Virginia.

Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology -- Helps entrepreneurs develop emerging, high technology companies with planning, marketing, financing, networking, general management assistance. Sponsored by the Center for Innovative Technology and George Mason University.

West Virginia

NASA's Independent Verification and Validation Facility -- Created by Congress in 1991, to ensure cost effectiveness and safety continue to be priorities in current and future NASA programs. Helps customers with developing software within initial cost estimates and on schedule.

The National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) -- Gateway to federal laboratory research and development. Provides education and training to private industry, provides outreach services to encourage teaming among state and local economic development groups, private industry, federal laboratories, and universities.

Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) -- Provides manufacturers access to advanced technologies and technical training to assist small- and medium-sized manufacturers to become and remain quality suppliers to the U.S. Department of Defense and commercial markets.

West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation (WVHTC) -- Assists West Virginia's information technology firms with doing business in the federal marketplace. Provides expertise in software development, systems engineering and integration, independent validation and verification, imaging technologies, and hardware sales and support.

Wood Education and Resource Center -- Provides industrial training, addresses industry problems and environmental impacts of forest products production, encourages collaboration between non-traditional partners, and serves as a hotline for information.

Non-Profit/Other

Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) -- Professional services company that provides management and technology-based solutions to clients from the private sector, and state and federal organizations. Provides unbiased evaluations, practical and demonstrated solutions, and implementation support.

CRADA International - Gateway to Technology Deployment -- Part of mission is to evaluate and promote the transfer of new and innovative technologies to the private sector and to assist economic and industrial development regionally and nationally.

EcoLinks (Eurasian-American Partnership for Environmentally Sustainable Economies) -- EcoLink's Technology Transfer program works to enhance the flow of environmental trade and investment by fostering business links and partnerships between U.S. environmental goods and service providers and businesses and municipalities in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States.

Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF) -- Promotes the development and use of innovative technology to achieve sustainable development through programs that emphasize technology innovation, information exchange, environmental management, and sustainability.

Innovation Transfer Network (ITN) -- Connects entrepreneurial faculty across 13 colleges and universities with business owners to help drive commercialization in Central Pennsylvania. The organization acts as a bridge between faculty and companies looking for an injection of expertise.

National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) -- Robert C. Byrd center is a full-service technology management organization. Created in 1989 by providing access to more than $70 billion worth of federally funded research and development. Currently the organization provides access to technology information, technology commercialization training, technology assessment, assistance in finding strategic business partners, and electronic business development.

Technology Commercialization Center, Inc. -- Helps U.S. firms improve their competitiveness by assisting them in the location, assessment, acquisition, and utilization of technologies and scientific and engineering expertise within the federal government. Offers a technology marketing service for federal, university, and corporate laboratories.