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Navigant Biotechnologies Inc., of Lakewood, Colo., has been awarded $2 million in funding from the US Department of Defense to develop and test military applications for the company's Mirasol technology, which uses riboflavin and light to remove pathogens from collected blood and improve the safety of transfusions.. . .Laser Atlanta, a developer of laser optics technology measuring systems, demonstrated its jammer-evading laser speed detection technology at the International Association of Chiefs of Police meeting in Philadelphia this week.