Senate approves $2.8M for Missoula high-tech firm, TerraEchos, and $1.6M for St. Patrick Hospital

The U.S. Senate on Saturday approved a defense appropriations bill that will provide $2.8 million for research at one Missoula business and $1.6 million at another.

TerraEchos http://www.terraechos.com/ , a high-tech business founded by Missoula entrepreneur Alex Philip, specializes in surveillance systems that use lasers for remote sensing and detection.

The company, which is now partly owned by S&K Technologies, has created a system called Adelos, which "provides state-of-the-art covert surveillance and intelligence sensor capabilities within a distributed situational awareness environment."

Partners include IBM http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/streams/ , Naval Undersea Warfare Center http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/ , Idaho National Laboratory http://www.inl.gov/ , S&K Technologies Inc. http://www.sktcorp.com/ , S&K Electronics Inc. http://www.skecorp.com/ , and GCS Research LLC http://www.gcs-research.com/

The other appropriation goes to St. Patrick Hospital http://www.saintpatrick.org/ to help develop a high-tech skin graft made of animal tissue. The graft would be used to treat injuries on the battlefield, the release states.

By MICHAEL MOORE of the Missoulian

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