Category: Press Releases

FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS January 2023 – Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc.’s approach to high-temperature electronics recently received major accolades from two separate competitions in early December, as well as recognition of the efforts of its team and founder with an award from an important industry group. While the $165,000 in cash prizes plus $75,000 in vouchers to further their work is significant, Ozark IC Founder and President Dr. Matt Francis said the recognition of its work is even more valuable. “What is really significant for us is the validation that these awards provide, as well as the opportunity to improve our product lines by working closely with our customers,” he said. “We are of course, very pleased with the cash awards, but […]

FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS February 2022 – Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc. (Ozark IC), a Fayetteville-based leader in rugged electronics, recently earned a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The final one-year contract is still in negotiations and is expected to be nearly $200,000. Ozark IC will use its high-temperature technology to develop a high-temperature health-monitoring instrument that measures the state of molten salts used in molten-salt cooled nuclear reactors (MSRs). Molten salts are used in next-generation nuclear reactors to transfer heat from the reacting fuel or to have nuclear fuel dissolved within the salty fluid itself – thereby providing safe, clean energy. “The opportunity to use our technology to help meet the demand for […]

Fayetteville, Ark.– Ozark Integrated Circuits (Ozark IC) has just started its first hypersonic SBIR Phase II project with a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Hypersonic flight is generally considered any speed above Mach 5. These flights, capable of speeds of 3600 mph or more, are considered as significant a game changer in defense as when stealth technology was deployed over a decade ago. Hypersonic vehicles experience temperatures from 200oC to 800oC or more. The key challenge to enabling such next-generation engines is therefore creating electronic systems that can operate reliably under high vibration and at these elevated temperatures (~200 to 800oC) for 50,000 hours or more. The three-year, $1.5M DARPA project will employ Ozark IC’s eXtreme […]

Fayetteville, Ark.– Fayetteville, Ark.-based Ozark Integrated Circuits earned its second American-Made Geothermal Manufacturing Prize, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Wednesday. A total of ten companies across the United States will share the $1 million prize and each will receive $75,000 in vouchers for use at DOE National Labs. Launched in April 2020, the American-Made Geothermal Manufacturing Prize is designed to spur innovation using additive manufacturing to address the challenges fundamental to operating in harsh geothermal environments. The contest consists of four progressive competitions with the first being called Ready!. Ozark IC was one of the winners in that round, which was announced in October 2020. In round two, Set!, the competition was opened to all, not just the Ready! winners. Competitors demonstrated […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Phone: +1 (503) 888-2372 Email:  Getreu@OzarkIC.com Ozark IC won $33,333 cash from the DOE Geothermal Manufacturing Prize and $25,000 cash in the 2020 MassChallenge final plus the opportunity for an investment of $50,000 from the Houston Angel Network. FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS October 2020 – In just one week, Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc. has won two separate cash prizes totaling $58,333. Ozark IC is the only Arkansas-based company to win a cash prize in both competitions. As well, Ozark IC was the only company in the MassChallenge competition to be eligible to receive a $50,000 investment from the Houston Angel Network. The first cash prize, announced Sunday, October 18, by the U.S. Department of […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Phone: +1 (503) 888-2372 Email:  Getreu@OzarkIC.com Ozark IC is one of 48 companies selected to compete for the 2020 MassChallenge prize. The finalists were selected from 244 companies from 34 countries. FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS September 2020 – Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc. was the only Arkansas-based company to be chosen as a finalist in the 2020 MassChallenge global contest. On Tuesday, MassChallenge, a global, zero-equity startup accelerator, announced the list of 48 companies who have made it to the final round. The full list of finalists can be found at this link: https://masschallenge.org/announcement/masschallenge-names-top-48-finalist-startups-from-2020-austin-boston-houston-and-rhode-island-cohorts The 48 finalists were selected from the initial pool of 244 startups through a process of presentations and evaluations […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Email:  info@ozarkic.com Dr. A. Matt Francis, Ozark IC’s founder & CEO, to present a paper at the ISS Research and Development (ISS R&D) Conference next week (September 24) on the mission and its Grafana-based data mining and display system FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS September 2020 – A paper titled “A Year on the ISS: Real-time UV Data Acquisition on the MISSEE Platform” will be presented by Dr. A. Matt Francis next week at 1:30pm (Central) on September 24, 2020 in the Technology Development and Demonstration track of the ISSRD Conference (https://www.issconference.org). This paper will describe the one-year UV detection project on the International Space Station (ISS) and how it prompted the creation […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. Ian Getreu, Director, Business Development Phone: +1 (503) 888-2372 Email:  Getreu@OzarkIC.com https://www.ozarkic.com U.S. Air Force Awards Ozark IC $750k SBIR Phase II Contract Ozark IC to develop 200°C microcontroller usign RISC-V processor core    FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS August 5, 2020 – Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc. received word in late July that they would be receiving their third SBIR Phase II award in two months. The $750,000 contract is from the U.S. Air Force and will result in the ability to put more processing power into controls for jet engines, providing new ways for manufacturers to improve their efficiency and performance. The project will create a high-temperature processing core, based on the open-source RISC-V architecture, that will […]