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Innovative Partnerships Program Office
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phone: (301) 286-5810
email: Innovative Partnerships Program Office

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James Kerley Award

Glenn Rakow (center) received the 2007 Kerley Award. Pictured with AETD Director Orlando Figueroa (left) and NASA Chief Engineer Mike Ryschkewitsch (formerly GSFC Deputy Director).

This is an annual award given by the Innovative Partnerships Program Office to GSFC civil servants who has been instrumental in transfer technologies.  The Kerley Award is named after James Kerley, a champion of technology transfer.

WINNERS: 

2007

• Glenn Rakow (Code 561)— SpaceWire protocol for data transmission in flight electronics
  

2006

• Dr. James Tilton (Code 606.3)—Hierarchical Segmentation (HSEG) software

2005

• Dr. Peter Shirron (Code 552)—Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator (ADR)
  
  

2004

• Dr. Jeannette B. Benavides (Code 562)—Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes
  
  

2003

• Dr. Norden Huang (Code 614.2)—Hilbert-Huang Transform
  
  

2000

• Dr. Matthew McGill (Code 613.1)—Holographic Circle-to-Point Converter
  
  

1999

• John Kolasinski (Code 565)—Fiber optics technologies
  
  

1998

• Geary Schwemmer (Code 613.1)—Holographic optical element technology

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