The U.S. Army has awarded a five-year, $33 million task order to Battelle‘s Natick operations unit for technical analysis and support services to the service branch’s Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Command in Massachusetts. Battelle said Monday that it will help develop survival support and equipment systems for special operations forces and work with an Army team to help develop, test […] More

The National Science Foundation has partnered with Battelle to build and implement a technology platform for scientists to examine climate change, invasive species and land use across U.S. states and territories. Battelle said Friday it will help establish the National Ecological Observatory Network for the agency and a system to facilitate data gathering at 81 NEON field sites. “This program aligns […] More

Battelle has sold nearly 100 units of a portable drone defense system to the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. The nonprofit science organization’s DroneDefender technology works to disrupt the operations of unmanned aircraft systems at a range of up to 1,300 feet through the use of radio control frequency, Battelle said Wednesday. “The idea is to quickly […] More

Jeff Geppert, formerly an internal research coordinator for health and consumer solutions at Battelle, has been named one of 11 senior research leaders at the nonprofit science and research organization. Geppert will oversee the company’s efforts to maintain the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ inventory of hospital and physician quality measures that work to help hospitals […] More

Battelle and the Defense Department have selected a ruggedized auto-injector developed by Emergent BioSolutions for testing and further development work as the military seeks to create a nerve agent antidote delivery platform. The Emergard platform works to inject a needle through a chemical protective gear, Emergent BioSolutions said Wednesday. Battelle and DoD will complete the […] More

A Battelle-led consortium has been chosen by the U.S. Energy Department to help study the feasibility of creating deep-borehole repositories in crystalline rock formations. The consortium will drill a more than 16,000-foot hole through a rock formation located near Rugby, North Dakota, in an effort to examine the potential use of boreholes for high-level radioactive waste disposal or geothermal energy development, the […] More

Kirkland Donald, former president and CEO of Systems Planning and Analysis, and Kilovolt Consulting President Suzanne Vautrinot have joined the board of directors at Battelle. “They bring a wealth of experience and deep customer expertise that can contribute greatly to our mission,” Battelle President and CEO Jeff Wadsworth said in a statement released Thursday. Before he […] More

Sudip Parikh serves as vice president and general manager of health and consumer solutions at Battelle, where he leads the scientific, technical, business development, communications and marketing team. Parikh is also the VP of the firm’s health policy since May 2009 and was previously the VP of AgriFood and global AgriFood business lead at Battelle. […] More

The U.S. Defense Department has chosen a Battelle-Purdue University alliance to evaluate and recommend strategies for U.S. Army-run science, technology, engineering and math education programs, The Purdue Exponent reported Wednesday. Sarah Kennedy writes Purdue University received a $5.25 million grant to support the military branch’s Educational Outreach Program in collaboration with Battelle. Louie Lopez, Army’s AEOP cooperative […] More

Companies continue to explore new drone defense technologies to address the potential threat from unmanned aircraft systems as they prove hard to detect using existing radar technologies, GCN reported Tuesday. Mark Pomerleau writes that NEC, Battelle and Lockheed Martin currently have programs that seek to bolster drone defense through capabilities ranging from detection to disruption. […] More

Battelle and SMT have forged an alliance to further develop and commercialize a tool that works to detect cloned or counterfeit electronic chips. Battelle said Thursday its Barricade platform consists of a hardware and software system that works to verify the authenticity of an integrated circuit based on the chip’s electrical signatures and classification algorithm […] More

The Department of Homeland Security has given the Undersecretary for Science and Technology’s Award for Outstanding Contractor Support to Battelle employee Gerald Weeks. Weeks received the award for his work to help transition the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s big data pilot study into an operational environment in collaboration with a team of federal partners and […] More