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H NU Photonics LLC

Address

350 Hoohana St
Kahului, HI, 96732-2931
US

UEI: UXZFTD5JG237

Number of Employees: 26

HUBZone Owned: No

Woman Owned: No

Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No

SBIR/STTR Involvement

Year of first award: 2010

10

Phase I Awards

4

Phase II Awards

40%

Conversion Rate

$953,446

Phase I Dollars

$5,430,357

Phase II Dollars

$6,383,803

Total Awarded

Awards

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Seal of the Agency: DOD

Multi-setting ventilator adaptable to robot control

Amount: $49,922   Topic: AF212-CSO1

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, HNu Photonics designed the Automated Resuscitation Compression (ARC) System to help meet the global shortage of ventilators. The ARC Deployable Ventilator replicates the comprehensive respiration modes of a traditional v

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SBIR

Phase I

2022

DOD

USAF

Seal of the Agency: DOD

Rapid pathogen detection tool for ?Air Force bases and clinical settings

Amount: $49,999   Topic: AF212-CSO1

From the inception of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an urgency for early and rapid detection and diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 to isolate the virus and prevent spread. Learnings from this pandemic demonstrate the current and future need for mass screening pr

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SBIR

Phase I

2022

DOD

USAF

Seal of the Agency: DOD

XTG Interactive Anti-Tamper Tagging System

Amount: $49,946   Topic: AF211-CSO1

XTG is a unique tagging technology with enhanced information storing and anti-counterfeit capability. The dynamic data storing feature allows for adding/updating information for each supplier, which makes it perfect for tracking assets from source to fina

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SBIR

Phase I

2021

DOD

USAF

Seal of the Agency: DOD

FLASH Contaminant Sensing Interrogator (FLASH-CSI)

Amount: $224,897   Topic: HR001120S0019-27

Bioreactors output nucleic acid or protein products that are complex macromolecular fluids. As such, it becomes challenging to discern whether sparse contaminant entities reside within this complex background.  Traditional mechanisms of detecting microbe contamination require time consuming and destructive methods with reagents, assay and plating procedures. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for the Department of Defense (DoD) to optimize production of life-saving therapeutics and vaccines.  HNu Photonics specializes in the creation, fabrication, and implementation of innovative technologies at the forefront of life science research on the International Space Station. HNu’s on-orbit projects have resulted in a variety of techniques and technologies that benefit human endeavors in space and on the ground. The proposed work will harness our existing space-based technology (automated microscopy and microfluidics) to develop a rapid, non-invasive, and automated sterility testing platform for biological materials, FLASH Contaminant Sensing Interrogator (FLASH-CSI).  FLASH-CSI will complement DoD efforts by rapidly detecting contaminates within biological processes (antibody or vaccine production) with a non-invasive, triple redundant optical detector.  FLASH-CSI is a disruptive technology designed to be an automated contaminate detection facility with a miniaturized footprint to be quickly implemented into existing, remote, or mobile production facilities.

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SBIR

Phase I

2021

DOD

DARPA

Seal of the Agency: DOD

XTG Smart Tag System for Modernizing EMATT Supply Chain Tracking and Tracing

Amount: $99,931   Topic: DLA212-002

The MK39 Expendable Mobile Anti-Submarine Training Target (EMATT) has become a vital tool in the Navy’s Anti- Submarine Warfare (ASW) tool kit by providing a low cost, expendable, open ocean, programmable, and modular training target, capable of simulating numerous types of submarine signatures and behaviors in the field for the training of submarine, aircraft, & ship crews in the search, detection & tracking of submarines. Since its initial development, the US Navy and other defense partners have utilized tens of thousands of units of the MK 39 EMATT vehicle for such testing and training of anti-submarine warfare platforms and personnel. Nearly 5,000 EMATT units were procured from Lockheed Martin by defense partners within the last 5 years alone, with production volumes continuing to increase each year. However, as new technologies and innovations are implemented into the EMATT platform’s acoustic systems, tail section propulsion, payloads, and sensors it has become increasingly complex to differentiate between the myriad of potential vehicle and section options, performance and endurance capabilities, battery status, and shelf life. Compounding this problem even further is the fact that the outer hulls and packaging of EMATT vehicles are visually indistinguishable from one another despite the wide variety of internal hardware configurations. To manage all of the potential variabilities in hardware, programmable software options within an EMATT vehicle, and ensure that each EMATT vehicle’s configuration conforms to the requisite training mission set, detailed system information for each unit must be readily accessible by the operators of the EMATT in the field. This will require a truly exceptional track and trace system chronicling each EMATT unit and its programmable settings over the entire history of production from component and subsystem integration to programming installation to final EMATT deployment, launch and recovery. HNu Photonics is proud to present its revolutionary XTG smart label track and trace technologies as a solution to these issues of tracking, monitoring, and authenticating of mission operations for unmanned underwater vehicle systems such as the EMATT throughout the production supply chain and field operations.

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SBIR

Phase I

2021

DOD

DLA

Seal of the Agency: DOD

XTG Smart Label Anti-Counterfeit Supply Chain Tracking & Authentication System

Amount: $1,199,972   Topic: DLA163-003

Counterfeit electronic parts in the Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain undermine the operational readiness and performance of weapons systems, provide a competitive edge to adversaries, and put American warfighters at risk. Only through the elimination of such counterfeit components can we assure confidence in our defense systems and in defense force readiness and lethality. The DoD establishes policies for detecting, avoiding, and remediating counterfeit parts in the DoD supply chain, and allocates responsibility among various DoD offices and functions for administering or developing those counterfeit prevention policies. Of particular importance are efforts specifically targeted at dealing with the epidemic of counterfeit electronic parts in defense systems. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) understands these challenges and is working to find solutions. DLA seeks and evaluates methods to eliminate counterfeit electronic components from the DoD supply chain. In response to the DLA’s quest for new counterfeit prevention technologies, HNu Photonics developed a cost effective and easy-to-use anti-tampering labeling system that provides the capability to detect counterfeit products across the majority of packaging types for materiel that the DLA purchases. HNu’s XTG label code technology was developed to provide these capabilities with an inexpensive and readily deployable label methods.

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SBIR

Phase II

2020

DOD

DLA

Seal of the Agency: DOD

Broadband, zero dispersion hyper-confocal microscope system

Amount: $1,531,437   Topic: SB102-001

Confocal microscopy has become the tool of choice for sub-micron imaging, particularly of biological tissues, and is being used as a diagnostic tool in other disciplines as well. Confocal microscope systems require the use of broadband optics in order for the instrument to collect emitted or scattered light throughout the visible and ultraviolet regions, with minimal spectral and temporal dispersion. Conventional confocal microscope systems utilize refractive achromatic and apochromatic compound microscope objective lenses. These objective lenses can yield two or three-color imaging that is free from spectral dispersion/chromatic aberrations, but cannot provide true broadband capability, nor do they generally allow confocal microscope systems to deliver good performance in the ultraviolet region due to limited available glass types in the UV. Microscopes using commercially available all-reflective objectives can achieve aberration-free imaging at low numerical apertures (NA), but cannot produce sub-micron spot sizes at the higher numerical apertures required for high resolution confocal microscope applications. The light collection efficiency of these objectives is also significantly limited, due to their low numerical aperture, preventing their use in weak fluorescence or low light level scattering applications. There is a market need for advanced broadband, high numerical aperture confocal microscope capable of achieving sub-micron resolution.

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SBIR

Phase II

2020

DOD

ARMY

Seal of the Agency: DOD

Phoenix: A Rapid Response Platform to Transport Cell Therapy Treatments to Warfighters

Amount: $49,997   Topic: AF182-005

As the utilization of warfighters in conflict areas continues to evolve, the need for widespread, accessible, and rapid response medical treatments is paramount. Significant medical advances have been made in the cell therapy community. Unfortunately, these treatment options require laboratories to produce and maintain the necessary, highly-sensitive cell cultures, dramatically limiting access to soldiers in remote conflict areas around the world. HNu Photonics proposes to leverage existing, patented commercial products in the automated biology research sector to develop Phoenix, a living cell culture transport device that will facilitate transportation of living cell therapies from the research laboratory to battlefield medical clinics. Phoenix is a compact, sterile, live-cell transportation device that provides autonomous environmental control and data logging to maintain living cell cultures for days to weeks during transportation. Regenerative Medicine and related cell therapeutics are posed to be the next generation of advanced medical treatments for a variety of diseases and injuries. Phoenix will be required to transport cell therapies to successfully employ these advanced procedures in remote conflict areas to save the lives of American soldiers. Furthermore, Phoenix has significant commercialization prospects within the pharmaceutical industry by providing unfettered global access of sensitive cell therapies to remote areas.

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SBIR

Phase I

2018

DOD

USAF

Seal of the Agency: DOD

GHOST: Gigahertz Holographic Optical Space Transceiver

Amount: $49,998   Topic: AF182-005

The micro satellite industry is booming, along with the commercial space economy as a whole. As space burgeons as a destination for commercial development, the communication links between space and ground must improve in their bandwidth, security, and stability. HNu Photonics’ GHOST technology is poised to seize this enormous market opportunity by enhancing or converting space communications from traditional radio frequency (“RF”) to optical communications. GHOST can transmit data in 1 hour that currently takes the International Space Station (“ISS”) 6 days to transmit. With its increased bandwidth and data rates, GHOST will establish the framework for the next generation of satellite communications, powering internet and private international data transmission at light speed. The optical communication technology developed by HNu Photonics for commercial space applications is accelerating the commercial space economy at the orbital, launch vehicle, and ground station processing levels. HNu Photonics contends this technology can serve the complex needs of the Air Force as well, providing reliable, high-speed, and highly-secure communication links for a wide variety of mission applications. Our proposed feasibility study will identify the highest impact Air Force applications to benefit from exponentially increased bandwidth and data rates.

Tagged as:

SBIR

Phase I

2018

DOD

USAF

Seal of the Agency: DOD

Tamper Resistant/Anti-Counterfeit Package Labeling

Amount: $1,597,209   Topic: DLA163-003

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) top priority is warfighter support, and the DLA is firmly committed to a robust counterfeit mitigation strategy that protects our warfighters and the vital missions they perform. HNu Photonics, LLC (HNu) Color Holographic Quick Response (CHQR, pronounced “Checker”) technology combines RGB 3-layer QR codes with holographic imaging technology, and is as robust as DNA encryption without all the expense and limitations. CHQR is an Add-On modular software technology for existing scanners, tablets, computers and smartphones. In Phase I, HNu developed and demonstrated CHQR on commercial storage batteries for a Renewable Energy company by recovering the holographic data layers and encrypted information. Letters of support from potential manufacturing and distribution partners were secured including Lockheed-Martin and Seagull Scientific (producer of BarTender™). The primary objective of Phase II is to take the Phase I proof-of-concept and apply and validate in real-world products and parts. The CHQR software module can be run on any computing device, and CHQR labels can be printed on a standard label printer. Additionally, a new handheld scanner using HNu’s proprietary Holographic Dispersive Element and Holographic Decryption Software will be prototyped.

Tagged as:

SBIR

Phase II

2018

DOD

DLA