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Significant awards have been bestowed upon Goddard staff both for their technologies and for successful technology transfer. (see also, Success Stories)

Listed below are 2007 winners. (See also 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008 Winners.) For prior years, please select from the award categories at left.

+ Federal Lab Consortium Awards (FLC)
+ Nanotech Briefs’ Nano 50 Award
+ NASA Tech Brief Awards
+ Patent Awards
+ R&D 100 Award
+ Software Release Awards
+ Space Act Awards

2007 Award Winners

Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) 2006 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer

Recognizes laboratory employees who have accomplished outstanding work in the process of transferring a technology developed by a federal laboratory.

Nanotech Briefs' Nano 50 Award

Nanotech Briefs magazine is the monthly digital publication from the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs*. The Nano 50 recognizes the top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have significantly impacted, or are expected to impact, the state of the art in nanotechnology. The winners of the Nano 50 Awards are the “best of the best”—the innovative people and designs that will move nanotechnology into key mainstream markets.

FY 2007 NASA Tech Brief Article Award

A monetary award based on submission of an article published in NASA Tech Briefs.

Advanced Autonomous Lidar Instrument for Airborne Remote Sensing by Matthew McGill (Code 613.1) Scott Vibart (Code 694), and Luis Izquierdo (Code 694)
One-Dimensional Synthetic Aperture Microwave Systems by Peter Piepmeier (Code 555) and Terence Doiron (Code 555)
Finite-Element Computer Code for the Analysis of Composite Shell Structures by Gregory Clarke (Code 542)
Flow Solver for Incompressible 2-D Drive Cavity by Virginia Kalb (Code 614.5)
Flow Solver for Incompressible 2-D Rectangular Domains by Virginia Kalb (Code 614.5)
Improvement of Micro-channel Plates (MCPs) by Coating by Abdelhak Bensaoula and Abdelhakim Bensaoula (Integrated Micro Sensors, Inc.)
Lightwire by Thomas Shay (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces) and Stephen Horan  (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces) (Code 450)
Micro-Resistojet for Small Satellites by Kurt Hohman (Code 597) and John Duggan (Code 597)
Mole Spectrometry by Barbara Zukowski (Code 543)
Parameterization of the POD-based Dynamical System Coefficients by Virginia Kalb (Code 614.5)
Planetary Balloon: Balloon Design Software by Rodger Farley (Code 546)
Simple, Cost-Effective Method of Mounting Filters for Cryogenic Applications by Jason Hylan (Code 551), Wahid Zewari (Code 544), and Raymond Ohl (Code 551)
Simple, Scalable, Script-based Science Processing Archive by Christopher Lynnes (Code 610.2) and Wrandle C. Barth (Code 610.2)
Smart, Flexible Sensory Skin With Integrated Sensors and Electronics by Jonathan Engel (University of Illinois)
Sprag Handle Wrench by John Vranish (Code 543)
Stabilization of a POD-based Dynamical System by Virginia Kalb (Code 614.5)
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Command and Data Handling Flight Software by Timothy Leath (Code 582), Jay Miller (Code 582), and Emory Stagmer (Code 590)

FY 2007 Patent Application Awards

Conduit Purging Device and Method by Michael Wilks (Code 597
Conformal Gripping Device by John Vranish (Code 543)
Device, System, and Method for Miniaturized Radiation Spectrometer by Epaminondas Stassinopoulos (Code 561)
Driven Ground by John Vranish (Code 544)
Enhancing R2D2C Requirements-Based Programming With Automata Learning by Michael Hinchey (Code 581, James Rash (Code 588), and Christopher Rouff (Code 500)
Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition:  A Noise Assisted Data Analysis Method by Norden Huang (Code 614.2) and Zhaohua Wu (Code 614.2)
Extendable USB Drive by Mike Hinchey (Code 581)
Fixed Lens Wavefront Sensing by Bruce Dean (Code 551)
Hardware and Technique for Dead End Welding of all Types of Tubing by Michael WIlks (Code 597)
Hybrid Diversity Method Utilizing Adaptive Diversity Function and Optical System for Inducing Focus Diversity by Bruce Dean (Code 551)
Interferometric Polarization Control by David Chuss (Code 665), Edward Wollacjk (Code 665), Samuel Moseley (Code 665), and Giles Novak (Northwestern Univ.)
Iterative-Transform Phase-Retrieval Utilizing Adaptive Diversity by Bruce Dean (Code 551)
Method and System for Procedure Development and Verification by Formal Specifications Derived Mechanically from Informal Procedure Descriptions by Michael Hinchey (Code 581) and James Rash (Code 581)
Method For Developing and Maintaining Evolving Systems with Software Product Lines by Michael Hinchey (Code 581) and James Rash (Code 588) 
Method of Forming Pointed Structure by Diane Pugel (Code 553)
Millimeter Wave Polarization Transformer by David Chuss (Code 665), Edward Wollack (Code 685), Samual Moseley (Code 685), and Giles Novak (Code 685)
Miniaturized Radiation Spectrometer Development by Epaminodas Stassinopoulos (Code 561)
Modular Gear Bearings and Device, System, and Method for Sensing Electrical Circuit by John Vranish (Code 544)
Noise-Assisted Data Analysis Method, System and Program Product by Norden Huang (Code 610.3) and Zhaohua Wu (Center for Ocean-Land-Atmospheric Studies)
Polarization-Preserving Waveguide Filter and Transformer by Edward Wollack (Code 665) and Felice Vanin (Code 665)
Pulsed, 1 Micron, Single Frequency, Diode-Seeded Ytterbium-doped Fiber Amplifier With Variable Output Parameters by Donald Coyle (Code 601)
Solid-State Laser Gain Module and Optical Source and Apparatus for Remote Sensing by Donald Coyle (Code 554)
Specular Coatings for Composite Structures by Jim Lohr (Code 303), Russell Rowles (Code 540), Wanda Peters (Code 546), Rober Kiwak (Code 541), and Ken Segal (Code 543)
Strain-Based Carbon Nanotube Magnetometer by Stephanie Getty (Code 541)
Systems, Methods and Apparatus for Automata Learning in Generations of Scenario-Based Requirements in System Development by Christopher Rouff (Science Applications International Corp.), Michael Hinchey (Code 581), and James Rash (Code 581)
Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for D-Dimensional Formulation and Implementation of Recursive Hierarchical Segmentation by James Tilton (Code 606)
Systems, Methods and Apparatus for Flash Drive by Michael Hinchey (Code 581)
Template For Deposition of Micron and Sub-micron Pointed Structures by Diane Pugel (Code 553)

R&D 100 Award

R&D Magazine’s annual R&D 100 award recognizes the top 100 most innovative and technologically significant new products on the market. Called the “’Oscars of invention’ by the Chicago Tribune, the R&D 100 awards are awarded to technologies with "demonstrable technological significance compared with competing products and technologies."

Jeffrey Hosler (Code 588), Troy Ames (Code 588), and John Moisan (Code 614): Adaptive Sensor Fleet: Won a spot as one of the top 100 most unique, innovative, and noteworthy technologies for 2007. The revolutionary ASF software has already made significant inroads into oceanographic and simulated planetary research – and its breadth of capabilities has the potential to benefit science missions ranging from oil-spill detection to search-and-rescue operations. Its architecture employs a unique, simple interface to remotely control vehicles (such as boats, satellites, rovers, robots, etc.) to work collaboratively in support of a scientific goal. Offering centralized communication, the system can control the fleet of vehicles and reroute them as needed without the vehicles “talking” to each other. The system offers extreme versatility in the variety of science goals it can accomplish, and offers cost savings and efficiency by enabling reusable code and commands.

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FY 2006 Software Release Awards

FY 2007 NASA Space Act Monetary Awards Program for Significant Scientific and Technical Contributions

The objectives of this program are to provide official recognition of, and to grant equitable monetary awards for those inventions and other scientific and technical contributions that have helped to achieve NASA's aeronautical, technology transfer, and space goals; and to stimulate and encourage the creation and reporting of similar contributions in the future.