Goddard’s Center Director Dr. Edward Weiler presented OTT’s 2005 Kerley Award to Peter Shirron for his work in transferring his adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator technology.
IPP prepared the winning nomination for James Tilton for the Goddard’s Excellence in Information Science and Technology Award for his Recursive Hierarchical Segmentation (RHSEG) software.
IPP prepared the nomination for two technologies that went on to win the 2005 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Mid-Atlantic Regional* Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. The winning technologies were Goddard’s Micro Pulse Lidar (MPL) and the MPL Network*, which were spearheaded by Dr. James D. Spinhirne (front left) and Dr. Ellsworth Welton (front right), respectively. Also pictured (l to r) are team members Luis A. Ramos-Izquierdo, Sandra Valencia, Dennis Hlavka, and Stan Scott. Not pictured are James Campbell, Timothy Berkoff, Daniel Hopf, Brent Holben, and Si-Chee Tsay.
Goddard’s Land Information System (LIS)* software was a co-winner of NASA’s 2005 Software of the Year Award, which recognizes excellence in software technology and places emphasis on those innovations that have a positive impact on NASA’s mission and others areas of science and technology.
In FY05, IPP coordinated the application efforts for various awards from NASA’s Inventions and Contributions Board, which resulted in the following:
Space Act Awards for 10 technologies (24 innovators): Recognize exceptional scientific and technical contributions to NASA’s mission
Patent Awards for 10 technologies (16 innovators): Honor researchers whose inventions have received approval for patent application by NASA
Software Release Awards for 19 technologies (37 innovators): Given to developers of software that has been approved for release by NASA to qualified users
Tech Brief Awards for 19 technologies (25 innovators): Presented to researchers whose innovations have been reported in NASA Tech Briefs
