Case Studies

The Results Speak for Themselves.

Over the past 14 years, KB Science has supported a myriad of corporations, small and medium enterprise technology companies, hundreds of public and private university clients, nearly all 17 DOE national laboratories, and educational nonprofits to advance technologies that help build a better tomorrow. In the past six years alone, KB Science has helped our clients earn close to $2 billion in federal public-private-partnership dollars, and the number is growing fast. As your unbiased broker, relentlessly focused, we are your essential partner for unstoppable progress.

Our Impact

 
 

Eliminating Industrial CO2 Emissions from Manufacturing

Heat is essential to manufacturing, but process heating accounts for more than 30% of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. By transitioning to clean electricity as an energy source, industries can reduce emissions and improve energy efficiency. KB Science served as capture and proposal managers, providing strategic guidance to a multi-institution team led by Arizona State University, including 37 companies, 9 universities and 3 national laboratories, to secure a five-year grant from the DOE for the new Electrified Processes for Industry without Carbon (EPIXC) Institute. For this project, KB Science helped put together a team with both the technical expertise and the experience to ensure that the transition to a new energy landscape will happen in a truly just manner for the greatest possible equitable benefits to the community.

 

The Result:

● $70 Million from DOE and $74 Million of private investment to transition from fossil fuels for industrial processes to clean electricity.

“When it comes to large-scale, multi-institution grants from mission agencies, KB Science succeeds in turning the total into more than the sum of its parts. They are masters—the right ingredients to beat the competition, perfectly aligned with the funder’s goals. Kristin and her team are the Michelin Star of winning proposals.”

– Sridhar Seetharaman, PI of the ASU-led Electrified Processes for Industry Without Carbon (EPIXC), US DOE’s seventh Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute

Innovation for a Cleaner World

Manipulating the intimacies of atomic-level ordering for manufacturing of semiconductors, KB Science supported the University of Arkansas's prestigious proposal development win at the US Department of Energy, in fast action proposal strategy, development, review, and production. The new Energy Frontier Research Center 'µ-ATOMS' will help the nation advance cost-effective transformation manufacturing of microelectronic chips and materials essentials for computers, M-ATOMS, aims to create and develop low-carbon manufacturing processes that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

 

The Result:

● $10.3 Million for the urgent US need for semiconductor chip manufacturing

“Kristin and KB Science did an amazing job in an extremely tight four-week period to reshape the proposal to be DOE/BES “flavored” and hand-by-hand helped us developing a solid management plan, which laid a winning foundation for our first trial of EFRC competition and placed Arkansas on the EFRC map for the first time! We will definitely come back with full confidence to work with them for our next large competition.”

– Shuiqing (Fisher) Yu
Professor &Director m-ATOMS, University of Akansaa, Fayetteville

 
 

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Robotics

Catalyzing robotics and AI innovative partnerships across the public-private market space, as Capture Manager, KB Science supported Carnegie Mellon University’s Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Institute to build the first advanced robotics manufacturing institute for the Department of Defense. Building and managing ARM’s elite membership model of over 300 public and private scientists, technologies, and educators, KB Science led the team and its partners to secure over $160M Institute funding at DOD to establish a future where people and robots work together to respond to our nation’s greatest challenges and to develop and produce the world’s most desired products.

 

The Result:

● $160 Million towards robotics and AI for our nation's greatest challenges

“Kristin and KB Science are the black belts of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. They helped us build the winning foundational synergist core team from deep federal agency know-how and technical rigor. For any large federal public-private innovation accelerator, I would go to KB Science.”

– Howie Choset
ARM Principal Investigator and Chief Technology Officer, Carnegie Mellon

Advancing Nuclear Fusion for Net-Zero

KB Science was the engine behind Cambridge, MA based start-up Commonwealth Fusion Systems DOE ARPA-E grant award, which is helping them catapult their leadership in low-cost commercial fusion through high-temperature superconducting magnet technologies. Confining spinning plasma at 150 million degrees Celsius, the new magnetic technology designs are helping the company demonstrate magnetic confinement in unprecendented ways. Shortly after the federal award, CFS raised over $1B in private venture funds paving the way to low-cost commercial nuclear fusion by 2025, and realizing fusion power plants by 2030. The aim, a truly carbon-free world.

 

The Result:

● $3.6 million from DOE APRA-E to advance nuclear fusion

“KB Science is the go-to firm for DOE. They will teach all every detail to do it. They will teach you how to win.”

– Michael Segal
CFS Chief Innovation Officer

 

Clients Who Win With Us

 

Universities

  • Arizona State University

  • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Georgia Tech

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Michigan State University

  • Penn State University

  • University of Delaware

  • University of Michigan

  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • University of New Hampshire

  • University of Pittsburgh

  • University of Utah

Laboratories

  • Ames Laboratory

  • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Fermi National Laboratory

  • Idaho National Laboratory

  • Jet Propolsion Laboratory

  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Lab

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Businesses & Non-Profits

  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers

  • American Iron and Steel Workers

  • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Chemours Company

  • DEKA, Inc

  • Electric Hydrogen

  • Mentis Sciences

  • Pixelligent

  • polySpectra

  • Stanford Research International Inc.

  • TC Energy

  • VIA