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NASA’s Innovation Ambassador Program – Goddard Space Flight Center’s Call for Applicants
The Innovation Ambassador opportunity will provide a temporary developmental assignment for select members of NASA's technical workforce. These employees will be assigned to work with a host external organization for up to 1 year. Shorter assignments (6 months or 9 months) will also be considered.
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Goddard’s ADR Technology Chosen for Two New Missions Funded at $44M+
This adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) technology developed at Goddard has been chosen to be flown on two missions selected by NASA Headquarters as the Agency’s next Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations, with funding totaling more than $44 million.
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Goddard Proposals Receive Newly Released Supplemental IPP Seed Funding
The Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) at NASA Headquarters has announced that two Goddard proposals (out of only six funded across all NASA Centers) will receive the newly released supplemental Seed Funding for 2008, totaling nearly $700K.
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planet SBIR Advances Our Understanding of Clouds and the Carbon Cycle
Two NASA-funded Small Business Innovation Research contracts with Anasphere may enable researchers to better understand the water content of clouds and the carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere – helping to meet NASA mission needs while supporting this new business.
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carbon nanotube SBIR Funding Yields Sensor to Better Understand Cloud Characteristics
Through a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research contract funded by NASA, researchers at Stratton Park Engineering Company (SPEC, Inc.) have developed prototypes of miniaturized cloud sensors that will help environmental scientists better understand the impact that clouds have on climate.
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training Tech Transfer Training: Something for Everyone
Goddard’s IPP Office offers quarterly training classes to help civil servant and contractor personnel understand the in’s and out’s of technology transfer.
  • September 18, 2008, Rm E100D
  • December 2, 2008, Rm E100D

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Adaptive Sensor Fleet
A software architecture has been developed that allows remote-controlled platforms, such as boats, aircraft, rovers, satellites, or other vehicles or hardware, to work collaboratively in support of a single scientific goal. ASF is ideal for oceanographic and planetary research; search-and-rescue operations; and military, mining, and security missions.
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Nondestructive Materials Testing Portable, Low-Cost, Nondestructive Materials Testing
A new nondestructive method has been developed for evaluating degree of cure, variations in chemical composition, and defect states in resin-based composites and metal oxides—data currently unobtainable through X-ray testing.
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NanoCompass
NanoCompass Provides New Capabilities in Magnetometry and Strain Sensing
This lightweight, low-power magnetometer is based on a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) network. Called the “NanoCompass,” the sensor’s dimensions are intrinsically nanoscale, allowing for new capabilities in magnetometry.
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This video highlights partnerships and technology transfer efforts since the 1960s that have benefited the Maryland economy.
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James "Barton" Bull
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Years at NASA: 16


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