23 23 18 20 Connecting with Businesses • INL developed new Partnering Discovery materials to highlight the ways to collaborate with INL in business, articulating INL’s mission, vision and core capabilities. • INL and Idaho Commerce held the first webinar to showcase opportunities for Idaho business. The webinar focused on NuScale’s first-of-a-kind small modular reactor technology that will be factory built and mass produced. • Through its Technical Assistance Program (TAP), INL partnered with Ampex to support small businesses that intersect with the lab’s mission. This TAP marks the first involving the lab’s Cybercore Integration Center. Ampex’s product—BLUE Lightning—detects malware, intrusions and network abnormality in real time, allowing the operator to actively defend against attacks. • Dale Reese founded Idaho Scientific, a Boise-based cybersecurity business, because he craved the agility of a highly skilled, small team. The agility came at a price, though: Idaho Scientific lacked the funding usually reserved for larger organizations. But INL connected Idaho Scientific with the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The funding provided through SBIR allows Idaho Scientific to pursue riskier solutions than they would have been able to afford without additional funding. • INL’s promotion of the SBIR program has encouraged other federal partners, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Missile Defense Agency and NavSea, as well as the tech transfer offices associated with Idaho’s research universities, to get involved. • INL participated in the Lab Partnering Service, part of DOE’s Energy Investor Center. The service provides investors and other parties looking to advance energy innovation with a single location to connect with leading DOE national laboratory technical experts to quickly answer innovation questions, as well as to discover opportunities for building partnerships. INL led all DOE labs in connections, including the most technical experts listed on the site. Celebrating the Past and Future of Innovation • Thanks to a partnership between Idaho National Laboratory, Boise State University, Premier Technology and Butte County, the small town of Arco now has a big public symbol: the Arco Atom. An ode to the town’s history of nuclear power and ties with INL, the sculpture symbolizes what can be accomplished when people work together and the promise nuclear energy holds for the future. • INL understands that 3D printing allows inventors to rapidly produce scale models of potential products. So when Clearwater Resource Conservation and Development Council applied for a grant, INL responded, awarding funds to purchase high-tech equipment, including a 3D printer, to help Igniting Innovation participants create prototypes of future projects. • One way INL is facing Idaho’s talent pipeline challenge is by joining the research team for the Idaho Technology Council’s Idaho Knowledge Report. The team is developing metrics modeled after the Silicon Valley index with the goal of assessing the health of Idaho’s economy and talent pipeline for the future. The Arco Atom symbolizes the community’s historic ties to nuclear energy. Cybercore aligns national science and engineering resources, technical expertise and collaborative partnerships to focus on scalable and sustainable control system cybersecurity solutions that protect the U.S. grid, other critical infrastructure and military systems.