N5 Sensors, a University of Maryland spin-off founded by UMD Research Scientist Abhishek Motayed, is commercializing a new generation of chip-scale chemical sensors that can detect harmful chemicals mixed in air, such as industrial chemicals, automobile exhausts, cigarette smoke, and pollutants released from paints, cleaners, pesticides and other products. These new sensors, built using the same fabrication processes that are commonly used for silicon computer chips, are small and accurate, with the capability to detect multiple gases at the same time. N5 is working to develop arrays of multi analyte sensors on a single chip, which can be integrated with smart phones, allowing industrial workers, first-responders, and soldiers to assess the dangers of their surroundings rapidly and accurately in real-time using their smart phones.

CoapTech seeks to bring a series of breakthrough medical devices to worldwide markets, leveraging a patent-pending, disruptive technology called Coaptive Ultrasound. The company’s CoapTech Carrier™ is a novel platform technology combining magnetic attraction for device placement guidance and low-cost, point-of-care ultrasound for visual feedback in diagnostic, interventional and therapeutic procedures.

CoapTech is commercializing a kit that will enable clinicians to perform a novel procedural method called Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy (PUG) for the placement of semi-permanent feeding tubes in the stomach. PUG improves on Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG), the current standard of care for feeding tube placement. The company believes that PUG is a safer, simpler, and less expensive method for placing feeding tubes.

Medcura (formerly gel-e Inc.), a privately held, clinical-stage medical device company, develops a broad range of hemostatic and wound treatment products, including bandages for the treatment of routine cuts and scrapes, foams and putties for traumatic and military injuries, and surgical gels and powders.

Northrop Grumman Corporation offers an extraordinary portfolio of capabilities and technologies that enable the company to deliver innovative systems and solutions for applications that range from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace.

The company’s core competencies address emerging global security challenges in key areas, such as unmanned systems, cybersecurity, C4ISR, and logistics that are critical to the defense of the nation and its allies.