Location: Manassas, VA Employees: 130 Sales and Investment to Date: $13,604,325

Company Background

Noesis, Inc. is a uniquely qualified engineering, scientific, and technical program management firm that is also certified as a participant in the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program. We are currently engaged in a diverse set of support activities for the US Government that includes information technology management, engineering, technical program management support, and a broad range of other support activities. The Noesis Team has significant experience supporting leading edge technology development programs in the federal sector. Our demonstrated highly effective management approach is to assemble outstanding and recognized key personnel and integrate them into a seamless organizational structure with our federal customers.

In the more than eight years that Noesis has been in business, we have competitively won several prime contracts and have also provided engineering and other technical services to the federal government utilizing our 8(a) certification (effective March 1996). Our contract experience demonstrates our collective corporate ability to expertly manage and perform a diverse set of complex assignments.

While Noesis, Inc. has several office locations, our corporate headquarters is located in Manassas, Virginia, and our primary technical support services office is located in Arlington, Virginia. We also have offices in Charlottesville, Virginia; Annapolis, Maryland; Newport, Rhode Island; Dover, New Hampshire; San Diego, California; and Honolulu, Hawaii.

Innovative Technology Developed

The objective of the High Performance Brush Technology (HPBT) Program is to develop electrical metal fiber brushes that are to become part of an equipment alteration kit for submarine electrical motor?generator sets. This US Navy sponsored development project effort calls for designing high performance brushes, modifying the brush holders (hereafter called brush systems) and rotor surfaces, and conducting smaller laboratory, larger land?based, and at?sea equipment tests with the metal fiber brushes installed. These tests will retire the technical risk associated with these brushes, and provide the necessary justification for shipboard installation of the HPBT based on the criterion of no demonstrated degradation in motor and generator performance, The high performance brushes will be tested in land?based and Shipboard 500 kW Ship's Service Motor Generator (SSMG) sets on LOS ANGELES Class submarines, High Performance brushes can be used for both back?fit and forward?fit applications and are also applicable to a broad spectrum of systems and platforms.

DoD Implementation and Commercialization Summary

Noesis, Inc. is currently engaged in the development of enhanced metal fiber electrical brushes that significantly improve the operating efficiencies of electrical systems and drastically reduce the requirements for costly periodic maintenance. The features, advantages and benefits associated with our high performance brush technology (HPBT) include the following:

• Reduction in electrical losses normally experienced in the electricity generation process, thereby improving the electrical efficiency provided by an existing motor or generator set.
• Enhanced operating efficiencies that yield more power from existing battery systems, or allow for fewer batteries to yield the same power for a hand held battery powered tools. This feature provides additional advantages to the tool operator: lighter weight tools are easier to handle and operate, and result in less strain on the body.
• Enhanced operating efficiencies that yield more power from existing battery systems, or allow for fewer batteries to yield the same power for battery powered automobiles. This feature allows longer range per battery charge or a reduction in battery size, weight and cost.
• Reduced sparking provides less opportunity for flammable combustion. This feature is especially relevant to pumps operating in flammable fluids, such as in aircraft gas fuel tanks.
• Less dust material when compared to existing carbon monolithic brushes yields electrical systems that are more environmentally friendly and possess greater operating efficiencies. Cleaning of carbon fouling from motors and generators is completely eliminated. Fewer airborne effluents also supports various military applications in closed systems, such as on submarines.
• Significant reductions in electro-magnetic interference (EMI) provides improved tool motor operations near computers and communications systems and video terminals.
• Ability to retrofit our fiber metal brushes to existing large motor and generator systems, thus allowing existing systems to gain the features and benefits of this advanced brush technology.

The Noesis vision is to design and then develop, through licensing agreements and/or manufacture, advanced electrical commutating and slip ring brushes that will significantly enhance the operating efficiencies of a wide range of electrical motors and generation systems. While there are many high technology applications in the federal marketplace, the number of these applications pale in comparison to the potential commercial requirement for high performance brush systems.