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Oct 11, 2005 — Fiberstars Inc., a Fremont, Calif., maker of fiber optic lighting systems, was awarded two Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) phase I grants, totaling $200,000 over nine months, from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to demonstrate feasibility of a more durable, robust distributed lighting system intended to replace fluorescent lights typically used on Navy ships. One grant is for the development of arc source multilayer coatings that would double the lifetime of remote...