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From the Chief
Making Goddard a Technology Partner of Choice

Technology Infusion—Innovative: finding ways to help everyone win

• Innovative: Mining for funding and research expertise through SBIR and STTR programs
  • AOS goes from Phase I to Phase III to benefit the Hubble Space Telescope
  • SBIR contract with Bauer Associates yields improved nanoscale optical measurement techniques
• Innovative: Combining resources to make great things possible through the IPP Partnership Seed Fund
  • 2006 IPP Seed Fund recipients make great progress
    • Advancing and lowering the cost of NASA’s next-gen X-ray and IR telescopes
    • Lowering the cost and risk of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes
    • Developing new remote sensing
    • Integrating software to improve lunar images, data, and overall missions
  • Seed Fund recipients chosen for 2008
    • Enabling autonomous and computationally intensive capabilities for NASA missions
    • Lowering the cost and risk of avionics systems for NASA missions
    • Helping NASA better understand unknown planetary bodies and their potential risks to Earth
    • Improving mapping techniques for topography and NASA exploration of icy moons
    • Helping NASA ensure crew health and safety during hazardous space weather events
• Innovative: Leveraging other government agencies and resources for NASA needs
  • Goddard and the National Cancer Institute help ensure astronaut health
  • DIA and Goddard facilitate technical exchange
• Innovative: Finding infusion partnerships that directly impact NASA missions or needs

Technology Transfer—Innovative: finding uses for new tecnologies in our own backyard — and beyond

• Innovative: Meeting mutual needs and goals through Technology Transfer Agreements
  • Innovative: A personal route to a two-way street
  • Innovative: Learning from the past to look toward the future
    • Finding novel approaches to international agreements
  • Innovative: Finding multiple avenues for single innovations
    • Goddard’s SpaceWire implementation sparks industry-wide interest
    • Patented nanotechnology supports multiple new businesses
  • Innovative: Maintaining strong relationships to yield ongoing technology transfer successes
    • designAmerica and Commercial ASIST—an important and continuing tech transfer success story
    • From human to animal rehabilitation: a long-term prognosis for the strength of the Enduro relationship

Intellectual Property Management—Innovative: supporting and protecting our most valuable assets

• Innovative: Encouraging new technology reporting to assess it, protect it, and promote it
  • Reaching out to innovators: Door to door, training, publications, and more
• Innovative: Recognizing innovator efforts in tech transfer with the James Kerley Award
• Innovative: Promoting technologies and partnerships through publications and media
• Innovative: Gaining recognition and prestige for Goddard and its IP through awards
  • Goddard technology receives an R&D 100 Award
  • Goddard technology named Nano 50 Award winner
• Innovative: Attending events to strengthen the value of Goddard technologies
• Innovative: Finding novel approaches to extend Goddard’s innovations further
• Patent Applications Filed — Provisional Patent Applications Filed

Contact Us — Innovative: getting involved in a good thing

Special thanks to Chris Gunn for select photos.

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