Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Air Filter Sensor A&D moving forward

An exciting event has occurred in the Barney Gorin/ GoVentures air filter sensor kit patent research and development project. A student group at Tri-State University (Barney's alma mater) has taken on developing a prototype sensor as a senior project. GoVentures will provide funding for hardware development including purchasing electrical/ electronic components and custom circuit boards.

Barney will be visiting TSU for discussions about the project on September 21st.

In a related event, we've started looking for licensing or other marketing arrangements and are reviewing packages submitted by specialty firms.

Back in harness

The GoVentures management team is back from Spain and hard at work. The way things look, we'll be reasonably busy between now and the end of the year with the possibility that we'll be very busy indeed. Very busy would be much better as billings for this year are down a bit.

The most immediate activity is the initial work on the Goddard PAAC III procurement supporting Jackson and Tull. J&T expects to be a major subcontractor/ teammate on the Digital Management team.

The Draft RFP is out and we're hard at it with the initial step being a detailed compliance matrix/ annotated outline. We're leaving schedule and kickoff planning to the Digital Management folks.

In our spare time, we're also supporting J&T on the Johnson Space Center Constellation Technical Services Contract (CTSC). That work is at a lower level of effort as the Draft RFP isn't out yet.