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Businesses That Qualify
Manufacturing
- Experimenting with new defining specifications and design concepts
- Engineering new processes and products
- Enhancing existing product design
- Enhancing production or manufacturing practices
- Creating manufacturing plans
- Simulating, engineering, modeling, and analyzing new processes or products
- Creating specialized tooling and equipment used in the production process
- Developing, creating, and testing prototypes
- Examining sufficiency of a new or improved design
- Developing software technology for the customer and/or vendor interaction
Professional Services
- Evaluating and integrating new technologies and materials
- Creating and producing new or enhanced technologies
- Engineering new and innovative structure designs
- Creating new or improved products, systems, or materials
- Developing new or improved tooling, machinery or equipment
- Using CAD technology and BIM activities
- Conducting scientific computations to assess physical properties of materials
- Evaluating alternative design materials, methods, and subcomponents
- Inventing or enhancing LEED or energy-efficient systems and structures
- Designing and developing new or enhanced infrastructure components including dams, subsurface tunnels, rail systems, and bridges
- Designing and developing new or enhanced pump facilities, wastewater treatment stations, or other water supply stations
- Creating or improving control, communication, lighting, alarm, and electrical systems
- Creating or improving mechanical, building envelope, and HVAC systems
- Evaluating subterranean conditions and a multitude of related development and design efforts
- Experimenting with new or enhanced designed for use in testing and evaluation practices
Aerospace & Defense
- Creating new or improved manufacturing procedures
- Designing new customer components
- Developing new composite materials
- Generating testing and validation prototypes
- Producing new machines, tools, fixtures, and jigs for aircraft assembly and manufacturing
- Creating new or improved welding, machining strategies, metal forming
- Automating various processes
- Designing engineering plans or integration kits
- Improving design or development of new or existing components or monuments
- Creating new software
- Experiment to improve output / reduce cycle periods
- Invent new surface-hardening solutions
Agriculture
- Creating new field/warehouse processes
- Inventing specialized harvesting and manufacturing tooling
- Developing new hybrids for livestock, plants, or crops
- Changing harvesting techniques to improve harvest or yield efficiency
- Automating processes
- Updating or enhancing pest management
- Designing or utilizing new irrigation systems
- Developing new or improved packaging or preservative chemicals
- Improving soil and rootstock processes
- Designing new software
Apparel
- Utilizing new or improved functions to design clothing and accessories
- Inventing apparel innovations that may qualify for utility patents
- Creating new product and performance specifications for fabric and materials construction technologies
- Using new apparel technologies and materials in new or improved clothing designs
- Invent new manufacturing practices
- Producing and testing prototypes and samples
- Designing new industry-related or process-oriented software
Architecture
- Innovative or unique designs for various structures
- Computer-aided design(CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) activities
- The design and development of innovative or unique new LEED, energy-efficient, or “green” alternatives
- Assessing design through various forms of modeling and computational analysis
Civil Engineering
- Designing infrastructure utilizing green and solar technologies
- Designing a wastewater treatment plant
- Designing water and sewage systems in complex environments
- Developing solutions to infrastructure challenges
- Developing solutions around potential environmental issues
- Designing roads, bridges, and tunnels
Communications and Media
- Creating or expanding network technology/architecture
- Algorithm development for dynamic Web applications
- Development of data analysis technologies and tools using new algorithms
- Conceptualize and build physical system networks
- Designing cloud-based platforms
- Expansion of telecommunication networks to better serve customers
- Design and testing of enhanced automation methods
- Developing transceivers, software, network tools, applications
Food And Beverage
- Creating new product flavors, textures, appearances, or health advantages
- Designing solutions to extend product shelf life
- Improving manufacturing technology, processes, and procedures
- Creating new or redesigning existing packaging
- Developing or improving fermentation techniques
- Producing and testing prototype product samples
- Validation new recipe formulations
- Improving designs for environmental compliance
- Inventing specialized tools or producing prototype machinery
- Establishing new or improving existing bottling tactics
- Designing new software systems for use internally or with customers
Heavy Civil Construction
- Road and bridge design-build and construction
- Engineering and construction solutions for pipelines
- Development of solutions for grading, storm drainage, pipeline installation and erosion
Information Technology
- Firmware development
- Network security design
- New infrastructure design
Life Sciences
- Establishing production process for new products
- Creating new or existing devices, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals
- Producing experimental clinical trial pharmaceutical lots
- Enhancing factory process or production using innovative methods or new technologies
- Designing technology to comply with EPA requirements
- Creating software or hardware components for research and clinical development use
- Developing medical equipment for use in research practices
- Improving product stability or increasing product shelf life
- Producing new medical products, equipment, technology, or devices
- Producing next-generation products and product enhancements
- Conducting unit, functional, integration, and performance assessments
- Designing, testing, and enhancing code for firmware
- Utilizing CAD technology for new product development
- Developing and testing new product validation prototypes
- Testing products and processes to comply with both domestic and foreign regulatory mandates
- Developing software technology for customer and/or vendor interaction
Software
- Programming software source code
- Compiling and testing source code
- Designing and developing the software
- Developing new or improved technologies
- Evaluating and establishing functional specifications
System Integration
- Programming of control systems
- Developing schematic drawings for integration of system components
- Provide custom control solutions for different applications
Technology
- Developing new software algorithm or architecture code
- Engineering new capabilities or functional upgrades for existing technology to establish competitive advantage
- Developing intranet and Internet software with complexity and scale to create technological challenges
- Creating technology to manage and automate complex business models and structures
- Designing interactive technology used in multimedia entertainment, including Internet video games as well as music or video streaming
- Developing software technology for customer and/or vendor interaction
- Inventing specialized innovations, including voice recognition or artificial intelligence technology
Tool and Die
- Prototyping and 3D solid modeling
- CAD design of die prints
- Optimizing manufacturing processes
Wineries And Vineyards
- Creating or improving distillation and fermentation processes/equipment
- Producing custom manufacturing equipment
- Designing or integrating automated processes
- Producing new irrigation, filtration, or straining systems/methodologies
- Creating or enhancing bottling and packing procedures
- Creating or enhancing product formulations and preservative chemicals
- Creating or enhancing prototype lots
- Evaluating and improving product consistency and shelf life
- Investing in green technologies for the use of manufacturing
- Developing software technology for customer and/or vendor interaction
Construction
- Creating new or improving existing plant operations
- Designing energy-efficiency strategies
- Innovating wastewater technologies
- Developing plans that optimize plant efficiency or capacity
- Designing innovative bridges, roadway structures, or sanitary sewer systems for new residential communities
- Creating new or enhancing existing construction practices
- Developing renewable energy technologies
- Designing new software systems for use internally or with customers