This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies of interest to preppers and survivalists that are located in the American Redoubt region. Today, we present a roundup of high technology and technology-related companies in the American Redoubt region.
Idaho
In Idaho, Boise is clearly the tech hub. But there are lots of other high tech loci that are spawning startup companies — mostly in and around college and university towns like Moscow.
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Idaho’s best-known high technology company is the chip maker, Micron Technology. They’ve been in business for more than 40 years, and they are considered a world leader in memory and storage chip technologies. They produced huge numbers of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, flash memory devices, and USB flash drives. They are headquartered in Boise. Their consumer products are marketed under the brands Crucial and Ballistix.
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Hewlett-Packard’s highly profitable imaging and printing group is also located in Idaho.
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Chelton Flight Systems, in Boise, has been famous for their FlightLogic display systems, for more than 15 years.
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Clearwater Analytics is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) fintech company that provides automated investment accounting, performance, compliance, and risk reporting for insurance companies, asset managers, corporations, banks, governments, and other institutions
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Also in Boise is the startup company VisitPay.
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ClickBank, in Boise, is an e-commerce platform for physical and digital products as well as digital content creators. They are a global internet retailer and affiliate marketplace, founded in 1998. The company has more than six-million clients worldwide[which secured it in becoming the 87th largest Internet retailer in North America.
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Kodiak Aircraft (formerly Quest Aircraft), in Sandpoint is famous for their state-of-the-art STOL aircraft. Their planes were originally designed to get missionaries and humanitarian aid workers into and out of short and “very austere” undeveloped runways. In 2019, the French industrial conglomerate Daher announced that they had bought the company. Production of their STOL airplanes will continue in Sandpoint.
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Encoder Products Company in Westmond (just south of Sandpoint) primarily makes incremental shaft encoders and absolute encoders.
Montana
Because Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman has a well-established School of Engineering, a large number of high tech companies have sprouted in and around Bozeman.
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Recognized as a 2017 Gartner Cool Vendor, Quiq “makes it easy for customers to interact with a company via Messaging. Customers can now engage customer service via SMS/text messaging, Facebook Messenger, Live Chat, and Kik for help with their pre-sales questions and post-sales support.” They are headquartered in Bozeman.
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Pulsara is “a mobile-first healthcare communication platform that connects teams across organizations. What makes Pulsara unique is its ability to enable dynamic networked communications for any illness or injury. With Pulsara, clinicians can add a new organization, team, or specialist to any patient event, dynamically building a care team even as the patient’s condition and location are constantly evolving.”
Central & Eastern Oregon
Odysys, in Bend, is digital marketing platform for independent hotels, inns, and B&Bs.
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Ampilon, in Bend, developed the Amplion Intelligence Platform — a system that “leverages proprietary machine learning and expert annotation to provide evidence-based insights for the key strategic decisioning life science teams need to be successful in the emerging world of precision medicine.”
Central & Eastern Washington
Spokane is the biggest high tech mecca in eastern Washington. See: On the other side of the state, Spokane’s tech scene capitalizes on Seattle squeeze.
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GoToTags makes geo-coded Barcode, QR Code and NFC tags for pets and tracking equipment.
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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) in Pullman, Washington (just across the state line from Moscow, Idaho) is well-known for their computerized high power transformer switching equipment.
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Itron, in Spokane Valley, makes meter reading system for utility companies.
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Tate Technology, also in Spokane Valley is a contract electronic manufacturer. They specialize in Surface Mount Technology (SMT) printed circuit board work.
Wyoming
Microsoft made a $750 million data center investment in Wyoming.
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Wyoming is also becoming a Bitcoin mecca. Notably…
- Avanti Financial Group is “a Wyoming bank formed to serve as a compliant bridge to the U.S. dollar payments system and a custodian of digital assets.”
- ColossusXT was the developer of the COLX digital coin.
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Lifekey makes wearable microcomputers.
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Language I/O provides “software that uses a unique combination of human and machine translation to automate the translation of customer support content such as FAQs, emails and chat within CRMs such as Oracle, Salesforce and Zendesk.”
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Wyoming Analytical Laboratories, Inc. is a full service environmental laboratory Headquartered in Laramie with a branch Rock Springs. They have been providing analytical support to the construction, mining, and energy industries since 1977.
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The Largest Wind Farm In The US Is Being Built In Wyoming. Along with that will surely come a lot of technical service jobs.
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