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  NASA Headquarters
NASA Headquarters
We invite you to visit these sites to explore NASA technology and to access opportunities for technology transfer, development and collaboration with NASA.

+ Douglas Comstock, IPP Director
+ View HQ IPP Site


  Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center
The Technology Partnerships Division creates strategic collaborations with industry, academia and government agencies and manages the Ames intellectual property portfolio to enable innovative technology development for NASA missions and U.S. public benefit.

Technologies: Aviation Safety, Airspace Systems, Avionics and Software, Protection Systems, Space Radiation, Small Spacecraft, Information Technologies, Integrated Health System Management

+ Lisa Lockyer, IPP Chief
+ View ARC IPP Site


  Dryden Flight Research Center
Dryden Flight Research Center
We work to form partnerships with industry, academia, and others in order to develop and transfer technology in support of all NASA Mission needs with particular emphasis on the needs of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate and the Dryden Aeronautics Research projects.

Technologies: Aviation Safety, Atmospheric Research

+ Gregory Poteat, IPP Chief
+ View DFRC IPP Site


  Glenn Research Center
Glenn Research Center
Put the world class research facilities, expertise and technologies of NASA Glenn to work for your company. The Technology Transfer and Partnership Office is your gateway to the innovative commercial applications of NASA Glenn Technology. Look through our website and contact us to discuss how we can help your company pioneer the future.

Technologies: Aviation Safety, Fundamental Aeronautics, Aeronautics Test Technologies, Environmental Control and Life Support, Extra Vehicular Activity, Lunar Operations, Energy Generation and Storage, Protection Systems, Exploration Crew Health Capabilities, Spacecraft and Platform Subsystems, Space Communications and Navigation, Processing and Operations

+ Kathy Needham, IPP Chief
+ View GRC IPP Site


  Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
Technology transfer is an important part of the mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Goddard's technology, expertise, and facilities are a National asset that can be leveraged to develop new products and processes that benefit the United States. These benefits include increasing the Nation's competitiveness, improving the balance of trade, and enriching the lives of the citizenry.

Technologies: Structures, Materials, Mechanisms, Sensors, Detectors, Instruments, Advanced Telescope Systems, Spacecraft and Platform Subsystems, Information Technologies, Space Communications and Navigation

+ Nona Cheeks, IPP Chief
+ View GSFC IPP Site
+ View Goddard Tech Transfer News


  Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"Do not go where the path may lead," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." That could be the motto of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Trailblazing has been the business of JPL since it was established by the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s. America's first satellite, Explorer 1, was created at JPL. In the decades that followed, we sent the first robotic craft to the Moon and out across the solar system, reconnoitering all of the planets. Pushing the outer edge of exploration, in fact, is the reason JPL exists as a NASA laboratory.

Technologies: Environmental Control and Life Support, Sensors, Detectors, Instruments, Advanced Telescope Systems, Robotics, Space Communications and Navigation

+ Andrew Gray, IPP Manager


  Johnson Space Center
Johnson Space Center
The Johnson Space Center, the lead NASA center for human exploration for more than 40 years, seeks to create partnerships and cooperative activities with business to develop technology that helps meet NASA mission needs and contributes to commercial competitiveness in global markets.

Technologies: Sensors for Autonomous Systems, Environmental Control and Life Support, Extra Vehicular Activity, Lunar In Situ Resource Utilization, Lunar Operations, Thermal Management, Exploration Crew Health Capabilities, Space Human Factors and Food Systems, Space Radiation

+ Michele Brekke, IPP Chief
+ View JSC IPP Site


  Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
The mission of the Innovative Partnerships Program is to provide leveraged technology alternatives for Mission Directorates, Programs, and Projects through joint partnerships with industry, academia, government agencies and national laboratories.

Technologies: Space Transportation, Processing and Operations, Launch Site Technologies

+ Dave Makufka, IPP Chief
+ View KSC IPP Site


  Langley Research Center
Langley Research Center
Langley continues to forge new frontiers in aviation and space research as it has since 1917, when it was established as the nation's first civilian aeronautics laboratory. Langley's mission and contributions to aerospace, atmospheric sciences and technology commercialization are improving the way the world lives.

Technologies: Aviation Safety, Fundamental Aeronautics, Airspace Systems, Avionics and Software, Structures, Materials, Mechanisms, Sensors, Detectors, Instruments, Atmospheric Research

+ Brian Beaton, IPP Manager
+ View LaRC IPP Site


  Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA's Technology Transfer Program seeks to maximize the nation's return on investment in the space program by encouraging American private enterprise to adapt and commercialize technologies derived from our work in space.

Technologies: Structures, Materials, Mechanisms, Propulsion and Cryogenic Systems, Advanced Telescope Systems, Space Transportation

+ Jim Dowdy, IPP Chief
+ View MSFC IPP Site


  Stennis Space Center
Stennis Space Center
The IPP at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center is made up of the Small Business Innovative Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) programs, Intellectual Property Management (IPM), and the Dual-Use Technology Development Program. The IPP is responsible for the research and theĀ  development of new technologies, as well as the assessment, certification, and acquisition of new technologies from the commercial, academic, and government sectors in order to improve safety, efficiency and the effectiveness of propulsion testing, earth science applications, and Stennis Space Center's institution.

Technologies: Space Transportation, Rocket Propulsion Testing

+ Ramona Travis, IPP Chief
+ View SSC IPP Site


Allied Organizations

National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC)
Wheeling Jesuit University
316 Washington Ave.
Wheeling, West Virginia 26003

Darwin Molnar
Vice President
Phone: 800/678-6882
E-mail: dmolnar@nttc.edu

United States Space Foundation
310 S. 14th Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80904

Kevin Cook
Director, Space Technology Awareness
Phone: 719/576-8000
E-mail: kevin@spacefoundation.org

Federal Laboratory Consortium
300 E Street, SW
Washington, DC 20546

John Emond
Collaboration Program Manager
Phone: 202/358-1686
E-mail: john.l.emond@nasa.gov

NASA Center for AeroSpace Information
Spinoff Project Office
7115 Standard Drive
Hanover, Maryland 21076-1320

Daniel Lockney
Editor/Writer
Phone: 301/621-0224
E-mail: dlockney@sti.nasa.gov

Tech Briefs Media Group
1466 Broadway, Suite 910
New York, NY 10036

Joe Pramberger
Publisher
Phone: 212/490-3999
E-mail: joe@techbriefs.com

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Centennial Challenges

The X PRIZE Foundation
Santa Monica, CA
http://space.xprize.org/

Volanz Aerospace, Inc./Spaceflight America
Owings Mills, MD
http://www.spaceflightamerica.org

The Spaceward Foundation
Mountain View, CA
http://www.spaceward.org/

California Space Education & Workforce Institute
Pasadena, CA
http://regolith.csewi.org/

Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency Foundation
Santa Rosa, CA
http://cafefoundation.org/

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