{"id":59848,"date":"2020-04-27T19:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/l3harris-team-designs-ventilator-support-system\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:22:40","slug":"l3harris-team-designs-ventilator-support-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/l3harris-team-designs-ventilator-support-system\/","title":{"rendered":"L3Harris Team Designs Ventilator Support System"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A team led by <strong>L3Harris Technologies<\/strong> engineers has designed a ventilation support system to help patients combat COVID-19 as part of the U.S. government\u2019s Hack-A-Vent Innovation Challenge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s i3 Breather design was one of five designs initially selected for next phase testing out of 172 nationwide submissions. Following the selection, L3Harris said the team worked around-the-clock to deliver the prototype in three weeks. Now, the i3Breather and the other prototypes are undergoing testing for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the <strong>Food and Drug Administration (FDA)<\/strong>. The i3 Breather team includes employees from L3Harris, a student from Baylor University, a member of Maker\u2019s Edge Makerspace in Waco, Texas, and six physicians from Texas and California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely proud and inspired by the i3 Breather team\u2019s ability to develop a life-saving solution for a critical public health need in just three weeks,\u201d said Sean Stackley, L3Harris president of Integrated Mission Systems. \u201cThe result showcases their agility and innovative spirit and highlights the power of a government and industry partnership to combat a global crisis such as COVID-19.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>L3Harris is also responding to the COVID-19 crisis by accelerating payments to its suppliers. <br \/>\nLast, week, the company announced that it is accelerating more than $100 million in payments to small business suppliers, and began making payments last week to small businesses in 45 states in its supply chain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by L3Harris Technologies engineers has designed a ventilation support system to help patients combat COVID-19 as part of the U.S. government\u2019s Hack-A-Vent Innovation Challenge.&nbsp; The team\u2019s i3 Breather design was one of five designs initially selected for next phase testing out of 172 nationwide submissions. Following the selection, L3Harris said the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}