BlazeTech is an engineering consulting firm that provides research and development, modeling, simulation and expert witness services. The company s goal is to bridge the gap between theory and practice to solve problems and develop software and advanced technologies. BlazeTech s technology development includes conceptual designs, proof-of-concept tests, proto- type development, field-testing and analysis. The company specializes in areas, such as environmental safety, fire and explosion consulting, accident modeling, hydrogen safety, aircraft survivability and vulnerability, shock attenuation by bubbly media, terrorist initiated fires and explosions in industrial storage facilities, safety of structures surrounding natural gas pipelines, munitions research and development, insensitive munitions, rate kinetics for oxidation and pyrolysis of toxic industrial chemicals, waste management, groundwater treatment, air pollution and odor control, as well as field demonstration of renewable energy technologies, such as solar process heat, small wind turbines and photovoltaics. BlazeTech was founded in 1987 and is located in Cambridge, Mass.