Over the last several years USDC has moved from a targeted RFP process to an open solicitation format. The following projects provide historical information on the contract awards that have been made under the USDC Technical Program. Total Program Cost includes the minimum 50/50 cost share between USDC and the selected development partner.
Project
Status |
Topic |
Development
Partners |
Team Leader
Company |
Total
Program
Cost $M |
RFP05-117
Completed |
HIL Materials |
Plextronics |
Janice Mahon
UDC |
$0.68 |
RFP05-116
Underway |
High-Temp TFT Process on CP |
Princeton University |
Mike Hack
UDC |
$1.70 |
RFP04-113
Underway |
Transflective Display Evaluation |
Honeywell |
Ted Wood
Honeywell |
$0.15 |
RFP04-112
Completed |
R2R SAIL Process, Phase I |
HP Labs |
Paul Wickboldt
USDC |
$2.76 |
RFP04-111
Underway |
Roll-to-Roll CAMM – Buy Small Scale Roll Coater |
Binghamton Univ |
Paul Wickboldt
USDC |
$0.65 |
RFP04-111F
Completed |
R2R Manufacturing Facility |
Binghamton Univ |
Paul Wickboldt
USDC |
$3.82 |
RFP04-110
Underway |
OLED NVIS Application |
Rockwell Collins |
Marty Steffensmeier
Rockwell |
$0.75 |
RFP04-109
Underway |
OLED Integration in MIL Platforms |
General Dynamics Canada |
John Thomas
GDC |
$0.77 |
RFP04-105
Completed |
O2 Permeation Rate Mearurement |
Duke University |
Bob Pinnel
USDC |
$0.30 |
RFP03-94F
Completed |
Laser Crystallization Phase II |
Potomac Photonics |
Paul Wickboldt
USDC |
$0.59 |
RFP03-88F
Completed |
NVG Compatibility Phase II |
Honeywell |
Kalluri Sarma
Honeywell |
$0.26 |
RFP03-85F
Completed |
Metallic Powders Phase II |
Cabot |
Bob Pinnel
USDC |
$2.74 |
RFP02-79F
Completed |
Roll-To-Roll Factory
Model Update |
Abbie Gregg, Inc |
Bob Pinnel
USDC |
$0.10 |
RFP02-75
Underway |
Defect Inspection Tool for Web-based Manufacturing on Plastic Substrates |
Energy Conversion Devices |
Paul Wickboldt
USDC |
$1.30 |
Project
Status |
Topic |
Development
Partners |
Team Leader
Company |
Total
Program
Cost $M |
RFP04-108
Underway |
Efficient Hole Injection Layers for OLEDs |
Dow Corning |
Mike Lu
UDC |
$2.39 |
RFP04-106
Underway |
R2R Processing of Barrier Substrates |
General Electric |
Anna Chwang
UDC |
$1.96 |
RFP04-103
Completed |
Pixel Correcting DriverChip Design |
Next Sierra |
Mike Hack
UDC |
$1.45 |
RFP04-102
Completed |
R2R Patterning on Plastic Substrates |
MicroContinuum |
Janice Mahon
UDC |
$0.93 |
RFP04-101
Terminated |
Laser Singulation of Plastic Substrates |
Applied Photonics |
M. Carmody
Kodak |
$0.61 |
RFP04-100
Completed |
Stainless Steel Substrates for Flexible Displays |
Energy Conversion Devices |
Janice Mahon
UDC |
$0.57 |
RFP04-99
Completed |
OLED Qualification for Avionic Apps |
Honeywell |
Kalluri Sarma
Honeywell |
$0.92 |
RFP04-97
Underway |
Gate Dielectric Deposition Tool |
Sencera |
Paul Wickboldt
USDC |
$4.58 |
RFP03-96
Completed |
Manufacturing Scale-up for Barrier Substrates |
Vitex Systems |
Janice Mahon
UDC |
$1.95 |
RFP03-95
Completed |
LEDs for RPTV |
Lumileds Lighting |
Mike Pashley
Philips |
$1.99 |
RFP03-93
Completed |
Flexible Substrate Lamination Tooling |
OEM Press |
Paul Wickboldt
USDC |
$0.45 |
RFP03-92F
Completed |
Video Latency Phase II |
Rockwell Collins |
M. Steffensmeier
Rockwell |
$0.90 |
RFP03-84F
Completed |
High Temperature WV Permeation Measurement |
General Atomics |
Bob Pinnel
USDC |
$0.25 |
Project
Status |
Topic |
Development
Partners |
Team Leader
Company |
Total
Program
Cost $M |
RFP03-94
Completed |
Amorphous Si Laser Crystallization Tool |
Potomac Photonics |
Paul Wickboldt
USDC |
$3.19 |
RFP03-91
Completed |
Cut COTS LCD Qualification |
General Dynamics Canada |
John Thomas
GDC |
$0.83 |
RFP03-92
Completed |
Video Latency in LCDs, Phase I |
Rockwell Collins |
Marty Steffensmeier
Rockwell |
$0.87 |
RFP03-90
Underway |
OLED Display Integration into Military Applications |
Rockwell Collins |
Marty Steffensmeier
Rockwell |
$0.87 |
RFP03-89
Completed |
Laser Cutting & Edge
Seaming |
Applied Photonics |
Bob Pinnel
USDC |
$0.15 |
RFP03-88
Completed |
NVG Compatibility Requirements |
Honeywell |
Kalluri Sarma
Honeywell |
$0.23 |
RFP03-85
Completed |
Printing of Metallic
Features |
Cabot |
Charlie Lang
Dupont |
$1.25 |
RFP03-84
Completed |
Radiosotope TracerTechnology
of Water Vapor Permeation Mesurements |
General
Atomics |
Bob Pinnel
USDC |
$0.44 |
RFP03-83
Completed |
Scanning Magnetron PVD
for TCOs & OLED Encapsulation |
Symmorphix |
Rich Wessel
Dupont |
$2.19 |
RFP03-82
Terminated |
Amorphous Silicon Backplane
Technology |
Ignis
Innovation |
|
$1.44 |
RFP03-81
Completed |
Si-C Alloy Barrier Layer
Films |
Dow
Corning |
Russell
Lees
CDT |
$4.40 |
RFP03-80
Completed |
Roll-To-Roll Linear Organic
Material Source |
Kurt Lesker
Co |
Janice
Mahon
UDC |
$0.58 |
RFP01-74
Underway |
Lithography
Aligner for Web-based Manufacturing on Plastic |
Azores
Corp |
Paul Wickboldt
USDC |
$4.09 |
Project
Status |
Topic |
Development
Partners |
Team Leader
Company |
Total
Program
Cost $M |
RFP00-60
Completed
|
Permeability
Measurement Techniques |
Desert
Cryogenics (AZ) |
Janice Mahon
UDC |
$0.58 |
RFP00-59
Completed
|
Near-eye
Display Human Factors Study |
Stanford
Resources (CA) |
Mike Ciesinski
USDC |
$0.12 |
RFP00-58F
Completed |
Lamp Assembly
Cost Improvements |
eele
Labs (NY) |
Mike
Davis
TI |
$2.20 |
RFP00-58
Completed
|
Enhanced
Projection Lamp Assembly |
eele
Labs (NY) |
Mike Davis
TI |
$0.70 |
RFP00-57B
Completed
|
Military
Display Defect Repair |
Rockwell (IA) |
Bob
Pinnel
USDC |
$0.15 |
RFP00-57A
Completed
|
Military
Display Ruggedization |
Rockwell (IA) |
Bob
Pinnel
USDC |
$0.47 |
RFP00-56
Completed
|
Large
Area Flat Lamp |
Winsor (WA) |
Bob
Pinnel
USDC |
$0.48 |
RFP00-52
Completed |
Micro
Display Test System |
Westar (MO) |
Pete
Smith
Three-Five |
$0.95 |
RFP00-51
Completed |
Environmental
Test Cell |
USF (FL)
CleanLink (CA) |
Bob
Pinnel
USDC |
$0.26 |
RFP99-49
Completed |
Rear
Projection Monitor Screens |
Reflexite (CT) |
Kurt
Stahl
InFocus |
$4.98 |
RFP99-46
Completed |
High
Voltage PDP Drivers |
Supertex (CA) |
Jerry
Schermerhorn
EPI |
$1.2 |
RFP99-45
Completed |
Linear
Organic Materials Source |
Kurt
Lesker Co. (PA) |
Teddy
Zhou
UDC |
$0.35 |
RFP99-44
Completed |
Web
Processing Tools |
CHA
Industries (CA) |
Paul
Wickboldt
FlexICs |
$1.16 |
RFP99-39F
Completed |
LCC Model
Enhancements |
Litton
TASC (MA) |
John Thomas
CDC |
$0.53 |
RFP99-39
Completed |
Life
Cycle Cost Model |
Litton
TASC (MA) |
John
Thomas
CDC |
$0.40 |
RFP98-37-BAT
Completed |
Low
Temperature Processing Hardcoats for Plastic |
Battelle (OH) |
Janice
Mahon
UDC |
$1.04 |
RFP98-37-DOW
Completed |
Low
Temperature Processing Hardcoats for Plastic |
Dow Chemical (MI) |
Janice
Mahon
UDC |
$0.56 |
RFP98-37-BAT
(F)
Completed |
Hardcoats
for Plastic |
Vitex (CA)
Sigma
Technologies (AZ) |
Janice
Mahon
UDC |
$1.34 |
RFP98-33
Completed
|
Dry
Strip of Organic Films |
Engenuity (CA) |
Bil
Yao
dpiX |
$3.68 |
RFP97-32
Completed |
Education
and Testing Facility |
OGI (OR)
C&C Tech (NV) |
Bob
Pinnel
USDC |
$0.24 |
RFP97-32
BRN
Completed |
Display
Technology CD ROM |
Brown
University (RI) |
Bob
Pinnel
USDC |
$0.08 |
RFP97-31
Completed |
Projection
Illumination Technology |
Welch
Allyn (NY) |
Larry
Detrick
TI |
$2.67 |
RFP97-30
Terminated |
Step & Repeat Lithography |
MRS
Tech (MA) |
Mei
Yen
OIS |
$3.63 |
RFP97-30F
Completed |
Lithography
Tool Service |
Azores
Corp. (MA) |
Bob
Pinnel
USDC |
$0.56 |
RFP97-27
Completed |
Dry
Cleaning Technology |
Radiance
Labs (VT) |
Bill
Yao
dpiX |
$0.17 |
RFP97-27-GEC
Completed |
Laser
Dry Cleaning |
Genesis
Eng. (MD) |
Bill
Yao
dpiX |
$1.08 |
RFP97-26
Terminated |
Thin
Film Vacuum Coating |
Intevac (CA) |
Chris
King
Planar |
$0.81 |
RFP95-24
Completed |
Inorganic
Planarization Layers |
Dow
Corning (MI) |
D. Monarchie
VIP |
$2.62 |
RFP95-23
Terminated |
Large
Area Vacuum Sealing |
Display
Technology Systems (MN) |
Jeff
Silvernail
eMagin |
$3.00 |
RFP95-22-ALN
Completed |
LC
Materials, Processing and Alignment |
Elsicon,
Inc. (DE) |
Bill
Doane
Kent Displays |
$3.31 |
RFP95-20
Completed |
Reactive
Ion Etching |
Plasma
Therm (FL) |
Tieer
Gu
OIS |
$3.83 |
RFP94-19
Terminated |
Plastic
Substrates |
Dow
Chemical (MI) |
Janice
Mahon
UDC |
$1.06 |
RFP94-19-BFG
Completed |
Plastic
Substrates |
BFGoodrich (OH) |
Janice
Mahon
UDC |
$2.59 |
RFP94-17-DRV
Completed |
Driver
Chips |
Supertex (CA) |
Tim
Flegal
Planar |
$0.90 |
RFP94-17-HVT
Completed |
High
Voltage TAB |
Supertex (CA) |
Mohan
Kapoor
VIP |
$0.50 |
RFP94-17-SOI
Completed |
Dielectric
Isolation Wafers |
Supertex (CA) |
Tim
Flegal
Planar |
$0.90 |
RFP94-16
Completed |
Glass
Cutting |
Accudyne (FL) |
John
Klatt
Candescent |
$5.82 |
RFP94-15A
15B 15C
Completed |
Backlighting |
Litton
Data Systems-San Diego (CA)
BHK (CA) |
Adi
Abileah
OIS |
$4.38 |
RFP94-14
Active |
Literature
Translation |
InterLingua (CA)
ATIP (NM) |
Bob
Pinnel
USDC |
$2.58 |
RFP94-13
Completed |
Polarizers,
UV & Retartdation Films |
Polaroid (MA) |
Drew
Fair
Standish |
$12.9 |
RFP94-13F
Completed |
Optical
Films Finishing Facility |
Polaroid (MA) |
Drew
Fair
Standish |
$0.43 |
RFP94-12
Completed |
Wet
Processing (Etching) |
CFM
Technologies (PA) |
David
Heald
dpiX |
$4.16 |
RFP94-11
Completed |
Large
Area Lithography |
Tamarack
Scientific (CA) |
Bob
Pinnel
USDC |
$2.19 |
RFP94-11-MSK
(F)
Terminated |
Large
Area Mask Fab. and Blanks |
Infinite
Graphics (CO) |
Bob
Pinnel
USDC |
$3.30 |
RFP94-10-BMK
Completed |
Handling
(Benchmarking) |
Competitive
Strategies(CA) |
Doug Sinclair
Lucent |
$0.18 |
RFP94-10-CAS
Completed |
Handling
(Cassette Design) |
Progressive
Systems Tech (TX)
H-Square (CA) |
Doug
Sinclair
Lucent |
$0.80 |
RFP94-10-TRK
Terminated |
Handling
(Tracking) |
PRI
Automation (MA)
Accu-Fab (OR) |
Doug
Sinclair
Lucent |
$2.92 |
RFP94-10-MOD
Completed |
Factory
Modeling |
IDC
(OR) |
Doug
Sinclair
Lucent |
$1.28 |
RFP94-10-ASR
Completed |
Handling
(Storage & Retrieval) |
PRI
Automation (MA) |
Doug
Sinclair
Lucent |
$1.59 |
RFP94-10-MTL
Completed |
Handling
(Manually Guided Transporter/Loader) |
Progressive
Systems Tech. (TX) |
Doug
Sinclair
Lucent |
$0.35 |
RFP94-10-MTL(F)
Completed |
Transporter/Loader
Testing |
Brevard
Community College (FL) |
Doug
Sinclair
Lucent |
$0.10 |
RFP94-10-CIM
Completed |
CIM
Benchmarking Study |
CPS
Research (TX) |
Doug
Sinclair
Lucent |
$0.13 |
RFP94-10-VH1
Completed |
Handling
(Vertical vs.Horizontal) |
Abbie
Gregg Inc.(AZ) |
Doug
Sinclair
Lucent |
$0.08 |
RFP94-10-ECA
Completed |
Glass
Substrate Edge Chipping Analysis |
Abbie
Gregg Inc. (AZ) |
Doug
Sinclair
Lucent |
$0.12 |
RFP94-10-FLA
Completed |
Florida
Cleanroom & Univ. Projects (3) |
Brevard
Community College (FL)
USF (FL)
UCF (FL) |
Doug
Sinclair
Lucent |
$0.28 |
RFP93-9
Completed |
Spacer
Application & Cleaner |
Accudyne (FL)
|
Mary
Tilton
Standish |
$1.90 |
RFP93-8
Completed |
Automated
Interconnect |
Anotech (NY)
|
John
Warner
Planar |
$4.36 |
RFP93-7
Completed |
Glass
Inspection |
Display
Inspection Systems (CA)
|
Keith
Wagner
OIS |
$1.50 |
RFP93-5
Completed |
Dry
Etching |
Lam
Research (CA)
Lawrence Livermore
Univ.
of Wisconsin |
Bill
Yao
dpiX |
$15.10 |
RFP93-5F
Completed |
Dry
Etching |
Lam
Research (CA)
|
Bill
Yao
dpiX |
$1.50 |
RFP93-4
Completed |
Polymer
Coating |
FAS
Technologies (TX)
SVG (CA) |
Mike Skinner
Candescent |
$2.72 |
RFP93-4F
Completed |
Coating Materials Rheology |
FAS
Technologies (TX)
SVG (CA) |
Mike Skinner
Candescent |
$1.08 |
RFP93-3
Completed |
Treated Substrates |
Applied Films Corp (CO) |
Mike Skelly
Planar |
$2.46 |
RFP93-2
Completed |
Pre-Assembly
Test & Inspection |
Photon Dynamics (CA) |
Len Fennell
dpiX |
$2.47 |
RFP93-1
Completed |
Color
Filters |
Rohm & Haas (PA)
Shipley
Co (MA)
Clarkson
Univ. (NY) |
Mary
Tilton
Standish |
$1.79 |
