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This license agreement is a key asset to BCG Wireless, and our relationship with Goddard’s IPP Office has developed into a true partnership. From the earliest days of our work together, they invested the time and energy to get to know us and to thoroughly understand our strategy. One of the barriers that small companies face is forging a solid working relationship with larger organizations. Not only do they understand that dilemma but they find creative ways to solve it. I can say with complete candor that without the IPP Office we would not be on the threshold of our own commercial success. Jack Barse, Chief Executive Officer, BCG Wireless

Every Goddard-developed innovation is made available to the nation’s companies, universities, and other government laboratories through the IPP Office’s Web site, articles in NASA Tech Briefs, and listings in the Agency-wide NASA Tech Finder. The technologies made available in FY06 are listed here.

These technologies can provide our partners with significant strategic advantages. For example, in FY06 the IPP Office successfully out-licensed the Hilbert-Huang Transform technology to BCG Wireless. The small business in suburban Washington, D.C., is working to use HHT to help improve signal reception capability in radio frequency (RF) communications. If BCG Wireless is successful in its use of HHT, then the company will be able to offer software and hardware that improve the usability of existing RF systems and thereby gain a competitive position.

The following lists FY06’s technology opportunities, including new technology reports († indicates software approved for public release), technologies published in NASA Tech Briefs*(†), and innovations featured on the IPP Office’s Web site (‡).

Advanced Materials
Electrical Systems and Electronics
Guidance, Navigation, and Control
Information Systems
Mechanical Systems
Photonics
Sensors and Detectors
Thermal and Cryogenic Systems

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† Indicates released software

Advanced Materials

Electrical Systems and Electronics

Coating Process for Silicon Carbide Fibers
General EQFlux†
Integrated Antenna Array with Individual MEMS Switch Based Modulation
Low-Power Intelligent Tool Environment (LITE) for FPGAs
MEMS-Scale Power System for Microsatallites
Method for Controlled Adhesive Attachment Using an Electrically Activated Viscoelastic Semiconductor
Micron and Submicron Pointed Structures
Novel Electronic Component Mounting to Achieve High Board Density
Novel FPGA Readout Integrated Circuit (ROIC) Architecture for Geiger Photodiode Arrays
Novel Method and Device for Stroke Prediction
Radiation-Tolerant, SpaceWire-Compatible Switching Fabric
Safe to Mate
Spaceflight Ka-Band High-Rate Rad-Hard Modulator

Advanced Land Image Assessment System (ALIAS)
Advanced Solid State Recorder Scheduling Tool (ASSET)
Application of SAE Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL) to IV&V of NASA Flight Projects
Approach for Autonomy: A Collaborative Communication Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
Astronomer Proposal Tool‡
AutoChem‡
Automated Vortex Detection
Autonomic Quiescence
CCSDS Image Data Transcoding
Commercial GIS Extension for Visualization of Large Unstructured Geospatial Data
Common Data Format
Computer Code to Model Loop Heat Pipe Transients
Contamination Mass Transport Analysis Software
Control Center in the Classroom (CCC)
Cool-RAD™ Ultra Low Power Cache Random Access Memory Structure with Enhanced Single Event Radiation Tolerance
Core Command and Data Handling Library
Core Flight Executive (cFE)
cFE Application Program Interface
D-Dimensional Formulation and Implementation of Recursive Hierarchical Segmentation
DocBUILDERsolo
Empirical Assurance of Embedded Software Using Realistic Simulated Failure Modes
Enhancing R2D2C Requirements Based Programming With Automata Learning
Estimated Spectrum Adaptive Postfilter (ESAP) and the Iterative Prepost Filtering (IPF) Algorithms
Extendable USB Drive
F Unit
General Mission Analysis Tool
Giovanni: GES-DISC Interactive Online Visualization and Analysis Infrastructure
Global Alert Resolution Network
Goddard Mission Services Evolution Center (GMSEC) Architecture
GMSEC Architecture Application Programming Interface
GMSEC Message Bus
Grants Document Generation System
Hilbert-Huang Transform
Innovative Utilization of the Heap Data Structure for Efficient Determination of Best Merges for Hierarchical Segmentation‡
InSpec: Automated Review System
Integrated Modeling Environment‡
Integrated Structural Analysis and Test Program
IV&V Technique for Object Oriented Software Systems
Java Application Shell‡
Land Information System Software, Ver. 4.2
Lightwire‡
LTM - LACE Task Manager†
Magic Bullet: Real-Time Anytime Treatment Learning
Matlab-CodeV Toolkit
Matlab-OSLO Toolkit
Matlab-Zemax Toolkit
Memory Efficient Serial Implementation of Recursive Hierarchical Segmentation
Method for Developing and Maintaining Evolving Systems with Software Product Lines
Method for Recursive Hierarchical Segmentation which Eliminates Processing Window Artifacts‡ (click here* to view NASA Tech Briefs article)
Methodology for Fixed-Point Computational Data Path Optimization
Mirador: A Fast, Minimalist Search Tool for Remote Sensing Data
Modeling, Specifying, and Deploying Policies in Autonomous and Autonomic Systems Using an AOSE Methodology
NASA Forecast Model Web Map Service
NUB: NPOESS User Block Tool
OASIS: A Reusable, Autonomous Ocean-Atmosphere Sensor Integration System
Otoacoustic Protection in Biologically Inspired Systems
Parameterization of the POD-Based Dynamical System Coefficients
Personalization and Flexible Rich Media Content Amalgamation to Existing Streaming Infrastructures
Pixelized Device Control
Practical Model Checking to Enforce Domain Specific Interfaces
Predictive Model for Return on Investment of Independent Verification and Validation
Programmable Digital Controller
Reusable Object-Oriented Software Package that Implements Instrument Command Building and Argument Validation
SLE Forward CLTU Service (User Side)
Space Operations Learning Center Website
Space-Based Ethernet Protocol Embedded in an IPDR Modular Avionics Architecture
SpaceWire Link and Switch Implementation
SpaceWire PCI Card Windows Driver Software
SpaceWire Test FPGA Design
SpaceWire Transport Layer
Spatial and Temporal Low-Dimensional Models for Fluid Flow
Specialized Color Function for Display of Signed Data
Split-Remerge Method for Eliminating Processing Window Artifacts in Recursive Hierarchical Segmentation‡
Stabilization of a POD-Based Dynamical System
Standard Autonomous File Server
Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) Engineering Flight Software
Systems Engineering Process Realization Toolkit
Tandem Experiments in Finding Faults during Model-Based Development
TARA: Toolbox for Automated Registration and Analysis
Tool to Facilitate CMMI appraisals‡
Ultra-Compact High-Definition Hyperspectral Imaging System
Virtual Satellite Platform (VirtualSat Pro) ‡
• Wireless Sensor Network Node

Annular Ring Premix Injector with Bladder Attachment
Apparatus for Providing Torque and Storing Momentum Energy‡
Compliant Mount for Umbilical Separation Connector
Dual Concentric Bladders for Positive Expulsion of Gelled Propellant
Gear Bearings‡
Hard Seat Isolation Valve for Spacecraft Applications
Hardware and Technique for Dead-End Welding of All Types of Tubing‡
Integrated Hydrostatic Journal Bearing
Method and Apparatus for Controlling a Tool‡
Miniature Pump for Long-Life Biomedical Application‡
Multiple Purpose Gas Generator
Ninety-Degree Close Quarters Facing Tool
One-Way Bearing‡
Passive Non-Rocking Vibration Isolation System
Phase-Oriented Gears†
Reversible Robotic Coaxial Connector
Robustness of Favorite Controllers
Rollatruss: Flexure-Hinged Optimized Ultralight Deployable Truss Boom with Flattenable Constituent Truss Elements
Space Robotic Tug System to Transport Cargo in Space, to Assemble and Repair Satellites, and to Dispose of Depleted Cargo
Synergistic Habitation System for Artificially Derived Forces from Directed Fluid Flow
Tetrahedral Exoskeleton for Segmented Struts
Three Degree-of-Freedom Parallel Manipulator with Three Inextensible Limbs and Base-Mounted Actuators†
Three-Dimensional Roller Locking Sprags‡
Tightly Packaged Integral Flexure Mount Design for Cryogenic, Metal Mirrors for Astronomy Instruments†
Toroidal Vortex Combustion
Virtual Feel Capaciflectors†

Absolute Cartesian Encoder‡
Active, Solid-State, 3-Dimensional Range Imaging System
Adhesive Bubble Remover‡
Aluminum Super Polishing Process‡
Automated Infrared Image Damage Detection Algorithm with Quantitative Error Threshold
Cartesian Electronic Absolute Autocollimator†
Cartesian Electronic Absolute Autocollimator‡
Chemical Stripping of Optical Fibers‡
Circuit for Real-Time Enhancement of GaN UV Photodetector Quantum Efficiency
Device for Live-Axis Turning for the Fabrication of Non-Rotationally Symmetric Optics
Fabry-Perot Double-Cavity Optically Controlled Narrow Tunable Bandpass Filter
Fast Picometer Mirror Mount
Fiber-Optic Shape Sensing for Intelligent Solar Sail Deployment
Full-Disk Rationing Radiometer to Augment Calibration of the Advanced Baseline Imager
High Power Electro-Optic Modulator for Space-Based Applications
High-Resolution X-Ray Collimators
High-Speed Magnetostrictive MEMS Actuated Mirror Deflectors
Holographic Circle-to-Point Converter‡
Improvement to Fine-Alignment Technology of a Large Segmented Mirror
In Situ Lidar for Cloud and Aerosol Radiation Sciences
Instrument and Method for X-Ray Diffraction, Fluorescence, and Crystal Texture Analysis without Sample Preparation
Integration of Garnets and Magnets for Waveguide Isolators
Investigation of Helioseismic Waves and Magnetic Variations Associated with Solar Flares†
Large Depth-of-Field Particle Image Velocimeter
Lightweight Optic Mirror Single Crystal Silicon‡
Linear and Rotary Absolute Optical Encoders with Ultra-high Resolution†‡
Magneto-Optic and Electro-Optic Heterostructures
Magneto-Optic Garnet Films
Modulated X-ray Source
Natural Light Polarimeter
Novel Tunable Dye Laser for Lidar Detection
One-Dimensional Synthetic Aperture Microwave System Using Parabolic Cylinder Reflector†
Portable Airborne Laser System†
Portable Rugged Low Powered X-Ray Fluorescent Using Machined Sources‡
Simple, Compact, and Robust Optical Reference System for Lasers with Narrow Linewidth
Solid-State Spectral Light Source System
Spaceflight X-Band Hybrid Phase-Locked Oscillator
Spectral-Ratio Biospheric Lidar‡
Theodolite Ring Light†
Tunable, High-Power Fiber-Optic Laser for Lidar Applications
Ultra-Stable Miniature Seed Laser for High Power Nd:YAG Lasers

4x4 Individually Addressable InGaAs APD Arrays Optimized for Photon-Counting Applications
AIGaN Ultraviolet Detectors for Dual-Band UV Detection
Analog Radio Interference Suppression System
Analytical Particle Biogeochemical Sensor
Autonomic Smoke Detector
Blocking Contacts for N-Type Cadmium Zinc Cadmium Zinc Telluride
Cloud Micro-Sensors for Application on Small UAVs and Balloons†
Demonstration of 4H-SiC Visible Blind EUV and UV Detectors with Large Detection Area
Development of Ultra High Sensitivity UV SiC Detectors
Direct Solve Image Based Wavefront Sensing
Dual-Order Common Path Spectrometer
Extended Range Displacement Sensor
Field Programmable Processor Array
Horizon Sensor Microsystem with MEMS Linear Scanner
InGaAsP Avalanche Photodetectors for Non-Gated 1.06-µm Single Photon Counting
Interferometer for Low Uncertainty Vector Metrology†
Low-Power Mass Spectrometer Employing TOF
Microwave Rain Gauge
Miniaturized Instrument to Obtain Atmospheric Profiles of NO, NOx, and NOy
Miniaturized Radiation Spectrometer Development
Real-Time Parylene Thickness Monitoring Optical Sensor System‡
Remote Sensing Analysis of Forest Disturbances

Advanced Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator Integrated Controller
Bi-Propellant for Thermal Mechanical Chemical Induction of Vaporization and Combustion
Cryogenic Frost Point Hygrometer
Cryogenic Hydrogen Radiation Shield
Cryogenic Loop Heat Pipe for Large-Area Cryocooling
Gas Generator Propellant for Thermal Mechanical Chemical Induction of Vaporization and Combustion
Helium Loop Heat Pipe for Large-Area Cryocooling
Lightweight Cryogenic Radiator
Low-Cost Al/Diamond Composites for Thermal Management Applications
Low-Cost and Lightweight Three-Stage Radiative Cooler for Cooling Focal Plane Array or CCD to 140 K or Colder
Micro-Channel Embedded Pulsating Heat Pipes (ME-PHPs)
Microchip Cooling Device with Diamond Heat Sink
Miniature Loop Heat Pipe with Multiple Evaporators and Condenser
Solvent-Free Batch Process for the Manufacture of a New Generation of Highly Efficient Thermoelectric Coolers†
Sub-Kelvin Helium-4 Joule-Thomson Refrigerator
Tangential Jet Evaporator for Two-Phase Cooling of High Flux over Large Areas
Thermal Mechanical Chemical Induction of Vaporization and Combustion

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† Software approved for public release

‡Technologies published in NASA Tech Briefs*