FY06 INTERNAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDED PROPOSALS

In FY 2004, the Office of the Chief Technologist awarded the following IRAD proposals:

• F. Scott Porter: Magnetic Calorimeter Arrays for Constellation-X and Beyond
• Pamela Millar: Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor for Spaceborne Lidars: Sub-Arcsecond Laser Pointing Angle Determination
• William Danchi: The Fourier-Kelvin Stellar Interferometer Instrument Testbed
• Dan Harpold/ Hasso Niemann: Miniaturized Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer
• Jason Dworkin: Creation of a Sample Return Analysis Lab at GSFC
• John G. Hagopian: Spherical Primary Optical Telescope (SPOT)
• Stephen Talabac: Application of Real-Time Dynamic Sensor Web Measurement Techniques to Maximize Aura/TES Useful Science Return
• Bruce Gentry: Small, Efficient Direct Detection Doppler Receiver for UAV and Spaceborne measurement of Tropospheric Winds
• Keith Jahoda: Development of a prototype Photo-electric X-ray Polarimeter
• Harry C. Shaw: Capability to Develop Prototype Nanopolymeric Materials for Planetary Balloons
• Michael Krainak: Laser Sounder Technology
• Michael Moreau: Intersatellite Time Transfer: Application to Formation Flying
• Douglas Rabin: Technology Pathfinder for TPF Coronagraphy and High-Resolution Solar Imaging
• Harvey Moseley: Critical Technologies for Flight-Worthy High Sensitivity Far-Infrared Detector Arrays
• Matthew McGill: UAV-based Lidar Sensor for Next-Generation Suborbital Platforms
• Jaime Esper: Remote-Sensing Advanced Technology Micro-Satellite (RSAT): A Modular, Reconfigurable, and Rapid Response Space System Architecture
• Gerald Heymsfield: Development of a Low-Cost UAV Radar for Measurements of Precipitation and Surface Winds
• Jordan Camp: Development of Ground Testing Methods for Space Interferometry
• Charles Bowers: Novel Method of High Accuracy Wavefront Phase and Amplitude Correction for Coronagraphy
• Matthew Holland: Peer-to-peer Science Data Environment (P2PSDE)
• James T. Smith/Dan N. Harpold: Miniaturized Solenoid Latching Valve
• Keith Gendreau: Extended Stable X-ray Interferometry Testbed
• Mark Clampin: JPF Demonstration
• Brook Lakew: Focal Plane Far-IR detector and Cryogen-Free for Future IR Insturments on JIMO
• Bob G. Beaman: Testing of Micro and Structural Batteries