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SBIR CONSULTANT BULLETIN – Medical Devices R&D

I participated as a panelist on the Federal Funding Forum at the AdvaMed 2012 Conference in Boston during October 3. My panel talk included an overview of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs and a history of Phase I and II awards from these programs for medical devices during the past decade. Highlights of my talk included:

• DOD: Army, Navy, Air Force
• SBIR/STTR Program Phases
• Funding Levels for Phases
• Advantages of SBIR/STTR Program
• SBIR/STTR Participation Rules
• Medical Device Solicitation Proposal Topics
• Medical Device Funding History

Please email me your contact information for a copy of my presentation.

J. H. Everson Consulting LLC

Dr. Jeffrey Everson

Reading, MA 01867

www.jheversonconsulting.com

jeff@jheversonconsulting.com

Senator Scott Brown, candidate for reelection in Massachusetts, lists 9 issues on his website regarding “Where I stand.” None of them involve energy. Based on the lengthy list of energy issues (see below) not addressed by Senator Scott Brown, clearly he has no interest in compelling state and national energy issues that affect the survival of this country. He gives new meaning to the word energy illiterate. Senator Brown has neglected to comment on:

• High gasoline prices
• Export of home heating oil
• The low level of proved U.S. oil reserves
• The Romney plan for crude oil security
• Potential unsafe U.S. nuclear power plants
• Problem with nuclear waste
• Declining U.S. oil production (i.e., Peak Oil)
• Escape from crude oil dependency
• The futility of crude oil conservation in the United States
• U.S. energy policy
• Exporting U.S. oil products: Selling America’s energy security
• Marginal growth of U.S. wind and solar technologies
• U.S. military and clean energy
• Shale gas reserves
• Energy subsidies

The list goes on…

Prior to forming a consultant practice, I was director of business development for QinetiQ North America’s Technology Solutions Group (previously Foster-Miller, Inc.) in Waltham, MA. By identifying and cultivating a major North American gas producer in Houston, I won contracts for technology development regarding upstream natural gas production. This work included planning for product manufacture, distribution, sales, and installation. Previously as a Senior Engineer at Foster-Miller, Inc., I wrote and won several proposals and was the subsequent Principal Investigator. On a technical level my experience includes, renewable energy systems, optics, sensors, robotics, transportation safety systems, electro-mechanical systems, human factors engineering and statistics.

My specific proposal support services are based on experience that includes Request for Proposals (RFP), Broad Agency Announcements (BAA), Task Order (TO) contracts, and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Elements of my proposal services include:

• Proposal research, writing and editing
• Evaluate client technology
• Assess client competition
• Determine market need for client’s innovation
• Create research & development plan
• Plan commercialization roadmap
• Integrate subcontractors with client program

Please call or send me an email about your proposal support requirements.

www.jheversonconsulting.com

Jeff@jheversonconsulting.com

339-227-0585 (cell)

On developing more oil resources, “Mitt Romney will make America an energy superpower, rapidly and responsibly increasing our own production and partnering with our allies Canada and Mexico to achieve energy independence on this continent by 2020.” Here are facts that the Romney plan ignores as exhibited by the following data:

Canada

Total oil production: 3,600,000 barrels per day (b/d)

Oil export to the United States: 2,500,000 (b/d)

Mexico

Total oil production: 3,000,000 (b/d)

Oil export to the United States: 1,200,000 (b/d)

United States

Oil imports: 8,900,000 b/d

According to the Romney plan, Canadian and Mexican imports to the United States should equal 8,900,000 b/d, assuming that U.S. imported oil levels remain the same by 2020. Even if Canada and Mexico agreed to export all total produced oil to the United States, that amount (i.e., 6,600,000 b/d) falls short of the total imported crude oil to the United States by 2,300,000 (b/d).Unless Mexico discovers huge reservoirs of crude oil before 2020, that country will not be able to sustain current levels of exported crude to the United States, as the following Mexican oil reserve graph shows. Notice that Mexican oil reserves peaked around 1990, twenty-two years ago.

Conclusion: The Romney energy plan for oil is flawed, demonstrates that he and/or his staff are ignorant about non-renewable energy and incapable of researching the issue.

The ExxonMobil website notes that proved U.S. crude oil reserves have risen from 22.3 billion barrels in 2009 to 25.2 billion barrels in 2010, an increase of 13 percent.  This increase in oil reserves is primarily attributable to advancements in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, particularly in the Bakken reservoir formation in Montana and North Dakota.  While this increase is encouraging, it should be kept in perspective with the following points in mind.

The United States produces 5,659,000 barrels of crude oil and imports 8,921,000 barrels of crude oil, each per day. Thus, the United States crude oil imports are 61 percent of its total crude oil consumption. The total annual U.S. crude oil consumption is 5.32 billions barrels. If the United States were solely dependent on its own crude oil, then its reserve of crude oil would last 4.74 years (i.e., 25.2/5.32). Additional perspective can be gained by comparing the U.S. crude oil reserve with that of other countries:

Country                        Proved Reserves (billion barrels)

Saudi Arabia                        262.6

Venezuela                            211.2

Canada                                175.2

Iran                                       137.0

Iraq                                       115.0

United Arab Emirates       97.0

Libya                                    46.4

Nigeria                                37.2

United States                      25.2

Mexico                                 10.4

Norway                                  5.7

United Kingdom                 2.9

Syria                                      2.5

Israel                                    0.0

It is totally disingenuous on the part of ExxonMobil to claim that a slight increase in U.S. crude oil reserves is any more than “a drop in the bucket” compared to crude oil reserves of several other countries. Notice that Norway, the UK and Mexico have dwindling supplies of crude oil. Syria has practically no oil compared to Libya. Thus, one suspects that oil was part of the reason for invading Libya, in contrast to not supporting the rebel forces in Syria. In a global market, a total loss of Syrian oil would be insignificant compared with a complete loss of Libyan oil.