Institute for Applied Science
Mission: Work with the international scientific community to promote science for peace by conducting research & development and supporting the commercialization of new science & technology to address internationally identified science & technology shortfalls.
Objectives:
- Promote international scientific cooperation for peace and security.
- Economic development through science & technology.
- Undertake R&D addressing identified science & technology requirements & operational shortfalls.
- Contribute to basic and applied research by advancing overall scientific knowledge and technical capability in the areas in which we work.
- Get products and tools in the hands of users who need them.
Expertise:
- Economic Development.
- International Science & technology cooperation.
- Science & technology commercialization.
- Intellectual property development.
- Development of international standards.
- Supply Chain logistics.
Current Activities: IAS is running projects with partners in America, Europe and Madagascar in support of the environment, ocean science, food security and sustainable economic development.
Background: The Institute for Applied Science Inc. (IAS) is a US corporation, based in Washington DC, and established in 1997 following the end of the Cold War in order to support US Government initiatives on nonproliferation and science for peace between the West and the newly independent states of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
IAS’ mission has evolved from its initial focus on East-West nonproliferation collaboration with national labs in central Europe and the Former Soviet Union, in order to promote scientific collaboration and commercialization of technology in other geographic areas of the globe as well as in the private sector.
Working Groups: IAS organizes its R&D activities into two major working groups to develop solutions to identified international science and technology shortfalls and requirements: Big Science and Small Science.
The Big Science Working Group focuses on promoting scientific and technical policy solutions, principally with regard to:
- Environment
- International Development
- Ocean Science
- Energy Security, Stability & Sustainability
- Nonproliferation
The Small Science Working Group focuses on product development and commercialization, principally in aquaculture, food innovation, health & safety, personal protective equipment and telcoms.
- Aquaculture & Food Security
- Food Technology Innovation
- Health & Safety tools
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Telecommunications
Deliverables:
- Coordination of multilateral strategic talks, & international conferences.
- Science for Peace advanced research workshops and working groups contributing to basic & applied research.
- Commercialization support to get new products into the hands of users, including R&D, testing, certification and export-import support:
- Innovative seaweed foods for the general public.
- Compact respiratory protective equipment to provide readily available protection against viruses, smoke, toxic industrial chemicals, and CBRN materials.
- Innovative low-breathing resistance high performance filters and filtering manufacturing processes.
- Cooling and heat stress solutions for personal protective equipment.
- Portable immuno-assay triage tools for rapid detection of toxins.
- Low-cost infra-red detection solutions.
- Secure satellite telcoms network installations.
- Streaming media tools.
From Concept to Commercialization
Product & Tools in users hands
Concept
Testing
Deployment
Seaweed Aquaculture R&D
Seaweed added to Madagascar School Meals
Penetration Testing
In use with Fire Departments for Evacuations
Using 3-D gel-based protein microchips embedded with antibodies
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