High-tech firm gets DOE contract

 "Superior MicroPowders LLC of Albuquerque has earned a $600,000 portion of a $5 million Department of Energy contract.

 The small business was contracted to help develop high performance, low platinum cathodes, Sen. Pete Domenici, an Albuquerque Republican, said.

 Superior MicroPowders will work with the Albuquerque office of the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration.

 "The small business's revolutionary technologies are supporting the NNSA Albuquerque operation with some very important back up," Domenici said.

 Superior MicroPowders was also recently awarded a $709,086 National Institute of Standards Technology grant to continue research on fuel cell technologies, he said."