Active and recent engagements.

Domestic supply chain verification for rare earth elements and critical minerals depends, almost entirely, on laboratory assay. Mine-face grade control, drill-core identification, and import verification are decisions that move faster than a sample can travel.

Real-time field assay with light-element sensitivity. Targeted at mine-face grade control, drill-core logging, and semiconductor feedstock purity verification — including the light elements (lithium, beryllium) that conventional field tools miss.

Field investigators at remediation and munitions sites routinely needed three analytical techniques — XRF, Raman, and LIBS — to resolve a single question. No field instrument combined them. Investigators carried three tools, three workflows, and three sets of incommensurable data back to the office.

The engagement engineered a subcompact multi-analyzer on COTS components with a unified data fusion layer, reducing a three-instrument workflow to a single field-deployable system.

No viable in-process analytical methodology existed for verifying composition and consistency during carbon-carbon composite fabrication. Defects were found only after cure — too late to correct, expensive to discard, and, on occasion, delivered to the field before anyone knew.

The engagement developed and demonstrated a novel inline analytical protocol that could operate under the conditions of the manufacturing line itself. Validation was performed against ARL reference materials through the full scope of the contract period.

PFAS remediation workflows depend on laboratory turnaround of three to five days. By the time the data arrives, the field decisions have already been made — on whatever information was available at the time.

Field-portable detection at parts-per-billion with documentation engineered to survive regulatory review. GPS-tagged, timestamped, traceable from result back to the sample.