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Awards play an important part of the IPP Office’s strategy to recognize and promote the value of Goddard’s IP, helping the agency gain credibility as a Technology Partner of Choice. The IPP Office provides Goddard innovators support for award nominations and application processes. FY07 was a very successful year for awards at Goddard.

Jeff Hosler (pictured here with colleague Troy Ames) manipulates a rover on Goddard’s MERS terrain using the award-winning ASF technology. John Moisan (not pictured) is also part of the innovation team behind ASF.

Goddard technology receives an R&D 100 Award

Called the “Oscars of invention” by the Chicago Tribune, this annual award from R&D Magazine recognizes the 100 most innovative and technologically significant new products on the market. For the second year in a row, a Goddard technology has received an R&D 100 Award—this time for the Adaptive Sensor Fleet (ASF) technology*.

The revolutionary ASF software architecture employs a unique, simple interface to remotely control vehicles (such as boats, satellites, rovers, robots, etc.) to work collaboratively in support of many scientific goals. The technology 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.

Innovator Jeannette Benavides accepted the Nano 50 Award on Goddard’s behalf.

Goddard’s “Method for Manufacturing High-Quality Carbon Nanotubes” has been named a winner in the third annual Nano 50 Awards in the technology category. Presented by Nanotech Briefs magazine—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. This technology has gained much recognition in FY07 not only through awards, but also through three license agreements.

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