2024 Counter WMD Innovation Challenge Winners Announced!

• First place: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine
• Second place: SteriO3 LLC
• Third place: Luna Labs USA LLC

Innovations were entered for a chance to pitch and win funding from a $50,000 award at TechConnect World, furnished by Advanced Technology International (ATI) and the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Consortium. Up to 25 finalists pitched on-stage before a panel of judges that included federal funders, consortium managers, investors, and private corporations as well as a broader audience of attendees from the conference.

Areas of Interest:

• PROTECTION: Self detoxification, CB suits, hoods/masks, chemical resistance materials, rope & fabrics, portable patient transport, isolation/quarantine systems, decontamination systems, etc.
  
  
• PREVENTION (EB/IEW): CBRN Situational awareness/response through Software, VR, sensors, command/control systems, wearables, handhelds, sequencing systems, communication systems, etc.
  
  
• DETECTION: Indicator technologies for vapor/aerosol hazards, wearable sensors, sensor systems, autonomous/robotic platforms, etc.

• A2US, Inc.
• Adaptive Immersion Technologies
• Alakai Defense Systems
• D-Tect Systems, a division of Ludlum Measurements
• Gold Standard Radiation Detection, Inc.
• Luna Labs USA LLC
• M2DCON
• Metakosmos

• Nanohmics
• Nanoionix LLC
• Sandia National Laboratories
• SenseVOC LLC
• SteriO3 LLC
• University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine
• Venti LLC